14 years ago, I birthed my sweet son into the world! 🌠🤲
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I was powerful in labor, every intense wave that rolled through me brought me deeper into the fierce intuitive meditation, the initiation of your birth. I’m so so grateful we had a beautiful #homebirth - @jessejackofall we were so young and ramshackle, we didn’t have a working shower but we had a wild sort of clarity and pure dedication. .
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My heart almost hurt it was stretched so wide open to make way for a love so big, it was all I could bear those first few days, gazing into your perfect celestial face.
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What a journey it’s been, I’ve grown as much as you. I’m so grateful. .
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We are so proud of the amazing person you are, Io. Carrying the torch of all your ancestors dreams and strength of heart into the future.
Grateful for all your parents, our queer patchwork family, extended support and love in so many forms. .
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Sending appreciation to all you parents out there, too. It’s takes more than we can give, gives more than we can hold. What a beautiful miraculous and incredibly humbling thing. .
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#gushymompost #raisingkids #family
I want to deeply trust myself. I want to be deeply trust worthy. So much more is possible when there’s trust. 🤲
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Still, sometimes it’s elusive, 🧐 in a world of constant change, heart bloom and break, turmoil, push pull. Like the seasons slowly plodding forward though, the roots of trust are there in the ground. Patiently waiting tending. What a sweet thing when it grows. 🌱
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“Trust: firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.”
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This pic: rare glimpse of some pretty in depth partner assist work at a recent #iyengaryoga intensive with Faeq. (Dont try this at home —>The belt was not pulling, just giving awareness...! This work created huge spinal traction since one person was keeping my heels way up the wall... incredible.)
Are you listening to these brilliant interviews?? NOT TOO LATE (today’s the last day to sign up!) for this free web series - it’s up till tomorrow, dig in! 👏 another great collaboration spearheaded by @eliana.chinea featuring a ton of brilliant folks shaking up the wellness space with feminist antiracism insight. .
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This mornings talk with @eliana.chinea and Sara @mindheartcollective
got me thinking more about how can Yoga specifically be used to address inequity/ oppression based trauma, holding patterns, physiological biological aspects of code switching, coping in inhospitable environments. How white supremacy (heteronormativity too! in different ways) affects our nervous systems, for folks various layers of vulnerability and privilege, as people in various proximity to whiteness, for people of color, for queers, for everyone. All of us are affected in various ways, left unexamined, these patterns are self perpetuating not only affecting inside us, but in the inter-web of collective experience. .
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As we heal ourselves, I think we can really deeply become less triggering and harmful to others. I HOPE! Shoot. And not in a hypervigilant “good” obsessed way, but a loving authentic humble connected way. For instance, things white people do to avoid the discomfort of realizing the reality of white supremacy, such as denial, spiritual bypassing, disassociation etc. creates an effect on the environment - on others - that perpetuates harm, shows up as social tension, micro and macro aggressions, defensiveness etc. what DOES yoga look like when it directly addresses this?... #ahimsa. .
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So many thoughts, It’s been a wild hustle for me this week, parenting, responsibilities, work long days. Listening to these interviews has been a grounding anchor. After 15+ years of intense yoga study, and in a separate part of my life, activism, it delights me so much to see these worlds merging more and more. Grateful for this time we’re in, so many smart cool women of color creating these great opportunities to learn and reimagine the yoga world and thus the World world.
THANKYOU all- Instagram won’t let me tag you all! #decolonizingyogaandwellness #embodyinclusivity
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I know this may seem controversial. We have been indoctrinated with gender essentialism that traps us in a lot of arbitrary rules about “men and women” 😑 that can be limiting and often harmful. These beliefs are a bummer everyone, but can especially create difficult and dangerous situations for trans and genderqueer folks.
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Have you ever really thought about how the way we gender bodies 👥👔💅🏼👀affects what you consider real, how you relate to your own body, and other people? Especially for those of us who teach yoga, this is a rich terrain to interrogate. .
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I’m so over broad terms like “male pelvis, women’s issues.” In general OTHER PEOPLES GENITALS ARE NONE OF OUR BUSINESS but I felt it worth clarifying this framework since it’s about providing access to healing. And I’m all about yoga accessibility! .
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(😲 feeling confused?
There’s a ton of great #trans101 videos and articles online, dig in! If you have a great educational resource on transgender realities feel free to list it in the comments 😻
Albuquerque folks, if you can catch one of the wonderful Trans 101 trainings @tgrcnm does, don’t miss it!)
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The pelvic floor area is often already shrouded in mystery for people, cis and trans: obscured by shame and pop culture assumptions, taboo to discuss, and layered with meaning and often trauma that can make exploration, learning and healing difficult in this special area in a relaxed, direct way.
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The pelvic floor is an incredibly important area. As pelvic floor yoga specialist @lesliehowardyoga teaches, all roads lead to the pelvic floor - if the body where a metropolis, the inner pelvis would be the downtown!
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I have 2 excellent Pelvic Floor Yoga workshops in Albuquerque at @highdesertyoga coming up this month: Part 1 this Sunday Oct 6th and Part 2 Saturday Oct 19th. .
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There’s so much more I’d love to share about these workshops, it’s topic I’m passionate about...but I’ll leave that for another post. .
For now just know that they are indeed for all genders. 😁
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#transrightsarehumanrights #yogaforall #yogawithavery
Happy Sunday, sweet friends.
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“In Savasana all parts of the body, skin, muscles, and nerves are relaxed. Energy which flows outward from the body is deflected to flow inwards. It thus becomes harnessed instead of dissipated.”
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- Geeta S Iyengar from #YogaGemforWomen
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So true! Savasana is such a profound, important aspect of practice, allows such absorption, that deep homecoming... teaching Savasana is a skill I’ve honed for many years, and I’ll lovingly continue to craft....
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#integrationstation
#savasanafanforlife
#letgoletgod
