GEETAJI 🦢🔥🌹 Happy birthday, to you, our beloved, fierce, so dedicated true true teacher!! .
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This clip was from one year ago, such a precious thing to be in your presence in Pune on your final birthday. .
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Been thinking of you so so much.
What a powerful gift you brought to us all.
#trueyoga #yog #nothalfway #loveisaverb #iyengaryoga .
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“It is your practice that brings the secrets to you. No teacher can give you the secrets.”
- Geeta S. Iyengar 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yesterday I unexpectedly saw WHALES 🐋 mama and baby, leaping, splashing, majestic, breathtaking, swimming south. I’ve never seen humpback whales, they were so close, massive, shimmering, powerful. .
It gave me a surge. Awe! Like, not all is lost, there’s still so much worth fighting for. .
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I’ve been mostly off online media, such limited access here in Majaua, it’s given me space to see I’m so inundated with heavy realities which don’t always serve my ability to respond and take action. .
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Helplessness anxiety and overwhelm coupled by thirsty escapism and disassociation are a thing of our times...! Where is the fine line between urgency, responsibility... and overwhelm, shut down...? The cutting edge of wakeful collaboration, action?
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I don’t seek false hope. I feel the weight of the earth, so much has changed in my lifetime, my children’s lives stretch before them, so much, this precipice, it’s a lot. .
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Seeing the whales, the cobalt blue coral growing amongst the rocks teaming with fish, such an abundance of crabs, geckos, birds... somehow, I feel more willing to keep going. Hard to put into words. .
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Sometimes wonder and delight can be medicinal. #naturechild 🌊🌎🌞🐠🐳🐋
🌺 When I don’t overthink it, (like after solo pranayama in the predawn dark) I have a sense that I just want to be like these tropical flowering plants - bursting with flowers and every morning showering, dropping all sorts of colorful blooms all around them on the ground. .
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What IS our nature, when we resist the temptation of our mind’s turmoil and struggle? .
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Over the half way point of our retreat, the layers that have come up to be shed are getting worked through, and the masks are falling away - everyone’s emerging delights me. .
#flores .
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Thanks @niceneedles for snapping this sweet pic in my post #sarvangasana obliviousness 🌜💫🌷
Yoga takes us within, beyond body, through gateway that is this warm, earthy, body. Our body is our home, needs special care. Asana can simultaneously heal the body, and take us beyond the body. .
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Airplanes mess me up, so today I worked a lot with hips and sacrum - hard to see in the balmy tropical light, but I have a belt around my mid thighs. .
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I’m pressing out into the belt to create space in the sacroiliacs then drawing my tailbone deep in. Combined with some deep release in the #piriformis and buttocks, sweet relief! .
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#salabhasana #urdvamukhasvanasana #dhanurasana to the rescue 🌈👌#iyengaryoga #yogadepacifico #yogaretreat2019 #propyourpose
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#soundon for #oceanwaves so beautiful to be by this perfect beach. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🌊
