Happy 101 Birthday 🕊 to Guruji BKS Iyengar ~ I am incredibly grateful for the light ✨✨✨✨ you continue to shine on this path of practice, even though you no longer walk with us on our precious planetary home: through your radical tenacious dedication, discovery, commitment to classical #yog - sadhana, real transformation, you have revealed and brought to light the ways and means for our own healing and transformation. .
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You evolved so much in your life, you survived, changed, brought so so much. .
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I am so grateful for the fact that healing IS actually possible. It’s incredible the depths of terror and violence humans can go to, driven by fear, ignorance... stuck in klesha... (have you seen any of #thereportmovie ??) I’m gutted by what we’ve done, are doing, to each other, to our earth. .
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The fact that we CAN evolve, we can grow and awaken... burn the seeds of suffering into healing, the alchemy of yoga, our tremendous good fortune of access to yoga, such a sophisticated spiritual technology, so effective, practical, profound - gives me hope, amidst the darkness. .
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May we all heal, awaken, gain freedom. The oppressed, the oppressors, within us, all around us. May we heal, at the root level...awaken. .
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#bksiyengaryoga
#LightonYoga
#lighthouse
#stormywaters
#safeharbour
#sadhana 🌍✨
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 🌜💫🌷
