When we deeply rest, the changes we seek become possible.
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When we deeply rest, the psychic composting of obsolete paradigms allows purpose, courage and creativity to arise. .
When we deeply rest, our strength increases. .
When we deeply rest, the mental clouds disperse to reveal the boundless, quiet inner sky.
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When we deeply rest, our biological structures renew and rebuild.
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When we deeply rest, we rediscover ourselves. .
When we deeply rest, we come home to our own warm, earthy body.
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When we deeply rest, we heal.
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. “Yoga truly has the ability to convert this earth into heaven.” - Geetaji Iyengar .
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May you bathe in savasana deeply, and often dear ones. .
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#fallowfield #winter #savasanadaily #wearenotmachines #iyengaryoga
✨2020 WORKSHOPS & RETREATS✨
Save the dates! 😘 #transformationawaits
Registration is open 🥳
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Body-Mind Detox Through Restorative Yoga
Saturday Jan. 18th 2-5pm *just a few spots left!!* .
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Headstand and Shoulderstand: King and Queen of Asana! Sunday March 8th 2:30-5:30 .
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Yoga and Your Pelvic Floor: Part 1 & 2 May 2nd and 3rd 2-5:30 - for #allgenders .
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NM RETREAT: Bodhi Manda Hot Springs + Iyengar Yoga June 5, 6, 7th .
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Yoga for Your Period Sunday July 19th 2-5pm .
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Pranayama: Developing a Home Practice Saturday Aug. 22nd 2-5 .
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NM RETREAT Deep Yoga and Healing Hotsprings at La Paloma, T or C Sept. 11, 12, 13th .
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Yoga for Neck and Shoulders Weekend Workshop
Day 1 Essentials for Relief: Saturday Sept 19th 2-5
Day 2 Tech Neck and Kyphosis: Sunday Sept 20th 2-5 .
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The Psoas Heart Connection: Finding Bliss in Backbends
October 17th 2-5 .
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Yoga to the Rescue: Practices for Anxiety and Depression Nov. 14th 2-5 .
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MEXICO RETREAT 2020! 8 days 7 nights in paradise with Zoreh and Avery Dec. 1 – Dec.7 .
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Winter Solstice Deep Savasana Workshop
Dec. 13th 2-5
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For more complete descriptions, and to sign and up for my upcoming Albuquerque workshops and our week long Mexico Retreat visit HighDesertYoga.com or follow the link at @highdesertyoga ✔️
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For my New Mexico retreats at the Bodhi Manda Zen Center in Jemez and at La Paloma in Truth or Consequences contact me directly at averyasana@gmail.com ✔️ .
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This original photograph, taken by @niceneedles 🙏🏼💜 of a #sarvangasana teaching demonstration from last year‘s retreat at Bodhi Manda. It was such a deeply meaningful and magical fun relaxing time for everyone. .
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I love how in the longer class format of workshops and especially retreats, I explore with students on a very deep journey that creates a real shift, awakening, and insight.
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These practices are SO powerful!
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For many of my offerings I have scholarships available for Transgender, Queer, and or Black Indigenous People of Color practitioners. Just shoot my an email for the simple sign up process. .
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Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
How easy is it 🤦🏼to get mechanical in asana, going through a checklist of shapes, actions. To get mechanical in life, rushing here, there, never quite landing. .
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My almost 3 year old likes to make everything a game. Even putting shoes on or getting in the car can turn into a silly game. (A game that’s often faster than threats or coercion) And what happens when it’s a game, a playful back and forth, is we get really ✨present✨. .
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Our eyes sparkle at each other. We’re connected. Maybe this is why play is special, it wakes us up from being mechanical, un-present. Kids are so good at this! It’s one thing they teach us. .
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When we tune in to breath, observing, studying, exploring, slowing down to pay attention, in asana, the checklist or counting of time disappears. We can fly inside! This creates a very different outcome, different brain body heart connection. Our body IS a playground! Just as playgrounds are designed for kids to have fun, our bodies are designed by breath, for breath!
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Thinking of @carrieowerko with this post, the #powerofplay ♥️🤸🏽
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. “Once you attain the posture there is something else that you need to do. Your embodiment becomes an observatory. It becomes a laboratory. You need to experiment with it... 🔭🔮🧬🕉
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The word practice here is not correct because it means to repeat an endeavor, the same endeavor often and very often. It means that you treat your body as an instrument 🎻 and finally try to perfect your instrument. ...Any instrument can be mastered because it doesn’t change. (But)... in yoga our own body and mind are the instruments which are not like other instruments. They change every now and then. They will not only have different shapes but different moods. ...
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Changes are taking place. There is always a new condition for you to observe. There’s a novelty to study. 🧿💎🌌
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So, the basic meaning of #abhyasa is to study. The study of the body associated changes, mind associated changes, their relationships and how they change.”
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“Make your body the playground of your breath.” -Prashantji Iyengar from Yoga Rahasya Vol. 26 no. 4 .
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Also I love this preparation for #ekapadaviparitadandasa ! #psoaslove
“We may ask, ‘Are we human beings not too limited to bring a change to the destruction of Mother Earth?” No, we are not! We have infinite power within us, but we are fast asleep and unaware of our strength. This power rises up when we awaken within. Spirituality is life‘s greatest secret. It enables us to awaken unlimited but dormant inner power. Earth cannot be changed for the better unless the consciousness of individuals is changed.”
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~ Mata Amritanandamayi
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Are you glued to @democracynow these days too? Chaotic war hungry imperialism, (I love the Iranians in my life! 😩) the burning earth, the intensity of scale of surveillance and manipulation its a WILD RIDE at the moment and admittedly I’m clinging to practice, to some sense of internal regulation, wondering how to contribute meaningfully, how to proceed.
Small steps.
Service, humility, forgiveness, vision, trust. Education, equity, compassion, healing. The immense to do list, feelings, early alarm clock, commutes to school, daycare, a million small details. Day by day. Day by day. .
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Which is to say, hang in there loves!
#inittogether
#embodyyourbody
#decolonizeyoga
#wakingdown
