#repost @gisellebuchanan - go to her original post cause the writing with it is gooorgeous 🧡👏👏👏
Thinking of you @abq_queer_trans_yoga . .
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We have so many teachings, teachers, in unexpected forms. Flowing in, available. The first segment of the #honordontappropriateyoga summit today was super rich. Thank you! @susannabarkataki and @sonalifiske you are generous and clear. Check it out, sign up, it’s free!
From today-
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. “Listen to the end. Listen to the unhealed parts of their stories. Listen without making it about you.” -Sonali Fiske .
From the perspective of #privilege this deep listening is one dimension of unclenching. .
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#decolonizeyoga # #whitefragility #yogaoffthemat #growtogether #listentowomenofcolor
Save the date! Join me May 24-26th Iyengar Yoga + Hot Springs Retreat 🍃 🌈🙏💦
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Submerge yourself in a cleansing, rejuvenating weekend of Iyengar Yoga and natural Hot Springs at the Bodhi Manda Zen Center, a humble, peaceful residential retreat site in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. Simple, comfortable lodgings, delicious farm-to-table vegetarian meals, daily seva and plenty of time to soak (and cold plunge in the nearby river!) provide the perfect compliment to expanding your spiritual horizons though Yoga Sadhana. .
Deepen your practice and reclaim your #joy through #asana, pranayama, meditation, and sutra study. Relax, unplug, reset, and reconnect with the earth and your own inner source. All levels welcome. .
Registration is now open! DM me or email me at averyasana@gmail.com. I accept cash, checks, paypal, or credit card payments.
Investment:
Early bird ~ Before April 10th $455
Late bird ~ After April 10th $495
Upgrades: Queen bed, shared room, add $25. King bed, private room add $40. $200 deposit saves your spot, balance due May 14th.
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Price includes room & board Friday and Saturday nights, all meals and yoga sessions, unlimited soaking, and a special gift. Retreat begins Friday May 24th at 4pm, and ends Sunday after lunch.
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2 Partial Scholarships are available for People of Color, Queer and/or Trans practitioners! Email Avery at averyasana@gmail.com to apply. .
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Avery Kalapa, Certified Iyengar Teacher, ERYT-500, is a dedicated & grateful practitioner who has been teaching yoga since 2004. She’s traveled around the US and to India to study yoga with the Iyengar family and many others, including therapeutic applications, advanced practices, and embodied spiritual philosophy. The Iyengar method, anatomy, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and Vipassana meditation are foundations for Avery’s practice. She brings a depth of skill, rigor, compassion, playfulness and commitment that creates not only safety and accessibility, but inspiration and transformation.
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Kriya yoga = tapas, svadhyaya, Isvara pranidhana ♥️ We worked with sutra 2.1 in class today, I love chanting with my students!
When the kleshas rise up, come back to these three: the intense burning shining purifying self discipline of #tapas, inner observation + self study, #svadhyaya and practice as an offering, a devotion to the Divine #ishvarapranidhana - Sadhana as a #loveletter to #purusa 💕 .
Offering our efforts, our practice to the Divine, in acknowledgement that all comes from that Source, so we can let go of grasping the fruits of our actions, and rather be with the work, the practice. .
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These 3 elements of #kriyayoga are the perfect start for beginners on the path, as well as the way to reset for practitioners who reach a plateau. 🏜
(Guruji describes this eloquently in #lightontheyogasutrasofpatanjali; Geetaji’s focus on kriya yoga in her Centenary teachings refreshed my enthusiasm for working with this dimension.)
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Along these lines I’ve been working towards befriending drop backs. 20 years ago in my New Zealand #ashtanga class I’d plop back without much thought. In 2003 I let go of fancy stuff in other to understand deep, basic alignment but after a decade or so of that coming back to drop backs was painful and scary! So it’s been a process of learning stability from the ground up. I like building the neuro pathways and finding the work with the ropes, (although I could use a slightly longer rope, can you see where it limits my organization?) .
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#stepbystep #iyengaryoga #waysofworking #yogawithavery #urdhvadhanurasana
