In case you need another reminder, you’re allowed to feel all the feelings right now. .
You’re allowed to let yourself off the hook. .
You’re allowed to take some extra time. .
You deserve all the compassion. .
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We are not functioning at our normal capacity. .
Subconsciously, in our nervous system, in our lizard brain, however you wanna look at it there’s a lot stirred up right now. .
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Lean on your sources of support. Sometimes empathy, supporting someone else, can help us shift. Sometimes we to trust. We need to reach out and have the courage to receive. .
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I’m really grateful for the support I have in my life. This week has been one of the deepest darkest emotionally challenging ones I’ve had, I’ve worked through a lot. 😭 #technology and small biz owner learning curves + #ancestralhealing + fear n anxiety, amidst all the new pandemic data.... yeah.
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I’m feeling a sort of high having worked through and now emerging, I’m beginning to feel a shift, a return of energy. .
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I’m very pleased to announce my online classes are ready to roll, I’m sure you’ll be hearing more about it in the coming days. You can find the info at averykalapa.com #linkinbio 😘
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Which is to say, I’m here for you, and so is your yoga practice. 💞
“Resilience does not mean we never experience difficulty or distress. Emotional pain and sadness are common in people who have suffered major adversity in their lives. The purpose of practicing a resilience skill is to increase emotional well-being in the face of events that can lead to physical and emotional upset.”
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-Randy Ernst, Scott Reed, Virginia Welle
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. ”You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.” .
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-Yogacharya B.K.S Iyengar.
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Lean into practice. .
Use what’s around. .
Flavor your day with both discipline and free form permissiveness. .
Call your representatives. .
Plug into mutual aid. .
Discover your own needs right now. .
Be relentless in your self compassion. .
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#stayhome
#growthroughwhatyougothrough
#endurance
#adaptandovercome
#yogapractice
When I was teen, deep in the late 90's rave scene, people having a bad trip would get sent my way. .
I would find a quiet-ish place where we'd sit or lay down, and I'd gently talk to folks who had gone down a scary rabbit hole, and bring them back to a more relaxed, calm, embodied, present place. My friends called me the 'trip mama.' 🧚🏼
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Sometimes I feel like I'm back in that role when I guide students into savasana. 😌
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Not all teachers "teach" savasana the way we break down and guide other poses, it's a quiet time.
But I have found, as a student, having help to get into the quiet depth can be profoundly helpful. I'm grateful for Francois, Rajiv, Faeq, Rama, and others who have lit the path of savasana for me. .
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Join me tonight! 8pm my time in New Mexico, 10pm East Coast, 7pm Pacific, for a lovely 20 minute guided savasana. .
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Make sure you're warm (maybe in your jammies?) and use a pillow or folded blanket to support your head and neck, and a rolled blankets, bolster, or throw pillows under your knees as a nice option to release your low back. You can also put your lower legs up on your couch. .
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I know you know deep relaxation is essential. Yes. Reeeeelaxaaaation.... to help us integrate, heal, find our ground, root into peace & resilience amidst this time of massive unknowns and transformation. Still, sometimes it's not so easy to just "relax." .
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The changes and upheaval of #COVID_19 a bit like a #badtrip... also though, a time of transformation, of perhaps healing and awakening, too...? .
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Join me tonight, sweet friends 🥰
Way to go getting through this week. It’s been ... big! Big change reveals a lot about our inherit strengths, and our vulnerabilities too, whoa. .
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There’s very real terrifying parts of this, and there’s beautiful revelatory parts too. And we are allowed to be with all of it. .
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To feel all the feelings. Let them polish our hearts into deeper honesty and awareness. .
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To experiment with small steps towards feeling more grounded. We are allowed to rest, to get busy, check out, check in, do a lot, do nothing. .
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There’s no one right way to get through it. We are all figuring it out, how to support ourselves, how to support each other. .
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Thanks you ❤️ @bigqueeryoga for sharing this, and @mollybcounseling for creating it, just the message I needed yesterday. .
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#growthroughwhatyougothrough #permissiongranted #communityovercompetition #socialdistancing #gamechanger #loveyouall
Well loves HOW ARE YOU HANGIN IN?? .
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It’s completely OK if you’re still figuring out how to cope. So much changing so fast, our whole paradigm of what’s real, what’s secure, how to move through time and space, changing, changing. .
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You don’t have to rush to figure out how to get through this. It’s a LOT. .
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I definitely needed to drift through a stage of overwhelmed dissonance. Lots of data and feelings to integrate. Pausing to get back to basics. Do the full on kid time dharma. Reimagine my entire business model. .
Yoga practice, a saving grace. .
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Grateful for @democracynow such a great resource for what’s going on.
Feeling: the beauty of resilient human community, the dysfunctional betrayal and greed of the trump administration, the deeper breath of the earth itself, relieved, a pivot we are navigating together. In solidarity. .
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Many of you have expressed you’re me excited for yoga together 🥰 and ooooeeeee I am too! Thanks for your patience. Soon soon soon! Yeah yeah yeah. .
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This yoga wheel thing isn’t an #iyengaryoga prop but I must say it’s pretty great for #setubandhasana 🧡
