Albuquerque!! Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student's Journey
is playing at the Guild this week!!
Now to Jun 20
Sunday to Thursday 3:45, 8:15
Don’t miss Your opportunity to see this incredibly inspiring masterful film @iyengarmovie ✨
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I got to see it’s global debut in Pune, India at the #bksiyengarcentennial
and in the context of that beautiful trip I cried the whole time, with a full and overflowing heart. It’s incredibly moving.
I saw it again in Dallas at the @iyengar_usa_2019 Convention
and had a whole other very moving experience. It captures something very special. I’m excited to see it again here in #Albuquerque 🌞
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Great way to deepen our gratitude and inspiration for practice for #internationalyogaday2019 .
#iyengarproud #guildcinema #abqyogis .
#repost image from @iyengarmovie 🙏🦋
Abandon all these attitudes
Of wanting to prolong pleasure
And avoid suffering.
Let the heart be itself and feel
Whatever is there. .
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Freed from clinging and avoiding,
The heart regains its poise
And revels in creation. .
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Plunging deep into its center,
Discover that the heart is moved
By a pulse that is everywhere. .
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-Yukti 103
The Radiance Sutras, a translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra by Lorin Roche
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What is the relationship between physical pain and emotional pain? What is the relationship between pain and suffering? What is real, and how do we practice asana in such a way, it leads us deeper into reality, away from escapism, fantasy? .
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#parsvottanasana
#radiancesutras
#iyengaryoga
I’ve been thinking a lot about #pride 🌈 yoga, & the co-opting/ drowning of what is radical + real in both by consumer capitalism. .
‘T.i.n.c.’ once gay men with class privilege, (read, white) were suddenly perceived as valuable to capitalism the whole conversation around gay rights changed. Tragically, the right to join the military, get married - assimilate- replaced the fight to protect and center the most marginalized from persecution & violence, and to liberate us ALL from toxic gender norms + dysfunctional power structures. Black Brown trans women led and continue to lead the charge for all LGBTQIAA folks, though their lives are still arguably the most vulnerable to the deadly dangers of our broken society. In the mass of rainbow color corporation floats at last weekend’s pride parade, I thought, how many folks know the history, these present day realities, what all has been silenced, lost, in the drive for assimilation? .
Yoga has also been co-opted, into a consumption based feel good billion dollar fitness industry, certain aspects spiced just right to please the pallets of the pop culture mainstream, while other aspects have been conveniently removed completely. Settler colonialism does that: it takes what it likes, mix and match, slices away the rest, repackages, sells it back. Party party party rainbow branded products at pride. American style pop fitness yoga in the East. Where have the deeper radical aspects of yoga been lost?
Yoga is radical in that it claims happiness can be found INSIDE beyond body mind, and that anyone regardless of caste class or gender can access and experience their own divinity, beyond dogma, religion. That this joy, freedom is to be found within, not in materialism. The deeper potential + reality of both queerness and yoga shouldn’t get swallowed, forgotten in capitalism. What is it to reclaim, dig deeper, the understand the whole story? Stories within stories?
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Excited for @abq_queer_trans_yoga
Queer Trans Community Yoga one week from today. Class = xtra juicy pride month, & this being the 50th anniversary of stonewall, bound to be deep roots and wide wings 🕊
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Shirt by @greenboxshop 💫 🌺
#reclaimpride
Been thinking about ancestors, lineage... through bloodlines, chosen family, bonds of resistance and resilience, of spiritual practice... How we stand on our great great great grandparents hands, we are their dreams in fruition. The hope of future generations, an unbroken line, threading through this pivotal time, which is now. Not random, not isolated... balanced within past, within future. The tenuous miracle of right... now. .
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. . Day 5~ #ALOver40balance challenge 🦔 (even though my hashtags aren’t working 😕 hope Instagram can fix that soon!) Today’s theme: Hands!
Yoga play time with my little Ko, #titibhasana weeee .
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#nonbinaryparent #queeryoga #iyengaryoga #yoganewmexico #summerthyme
You’ll notice in the second picture, my leg is lifting higher, but at the expense of my spine and shoulders. In the first pose, I have more sternum opening+ length through the adrenal/ kidney area, where the lumbar meets the thoracic, a region that is often exploited in a deep backbend. .
What does #asana look like, when one part of the body isn’t exploited, sacrificed so that another part can find expansion, abundance? .
What does a society look like, where one group of people isn’t exploited, compromised, so that others can thrive? What is equity in the physical body, social body, political body? .
How do we as practitioners of yoga become sensitive, aware of these imbalances, so we can address them, not only in our bodies, but in the world? The two are not as separate as we might think.
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Reflections inspired by @kwisuk63 - have you read her amazing recent blog post ‘A Yogic Racial Journey’ on stillinsirsasana.blogspot.com ?? .
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Day 3! One foot, two hands #alover40balance challenge 💥
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#ekapadaurdhvadhanurasana I couldn’t resist 😛
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