When life is in turmoil or you just feel out of alignment with your purpose...you wake up without passion and feel heavy or burdened this is when you must do the work. 🧱
Yoga is an ancient technology designed to transform the whole self.
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Yoga is a system that done properly can refocus, reset, heal and renew the whole self💙
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Yoga isn’t easy. It is the practice of taming the monkey🐒 mind and everyone knows how hard it is to focus a monkey:)
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But, once the mind is harnessed the mat offers an opportunity for reflection and transformation. .
With continued work The frustration, anger, hurt and pain disappears. The shadows dissolve into the 💡 🔥
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Through focus and intention the yogi can transform their negative energy into positive and return to their true nature. 🌈
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The goal of yoga isn’t to avoid the challenge or struggle.🌸 🦋
The goal is to move into the challenge with focus and intention and look for the sukha “the sweetness” the goal is to hold the poses you dislike until you can find peace ☮️ ❤️ Sukha is what we are really searching for in the practice of yoga 🧘♀️ It is the nectar of life that is an every single experience, good or bad, if you are looking for it... 🌷
In yoga the Sukha or sweetness comes when the posture is study and comfortable. When You can taste the sweet nectar even in the discomfort you will begin to find the happiness that is lasting.
#findthesweetness #sukha #playingwithfire #transformationtuesday #iloveyou #getzenyogabellevue #getzenyoga
So grateful to @fierce_calm for featuring my story of yoga and for all the incredible work they do❤️ .
At 17 struggle was all I knew. Life hadn’t shown me much kindness or compassion. It had become a constant stream of pain. I managed to hold it together. I needed to for my son. Like a broken windshield one stone away from being shattered. A childhood riddled with dysfunction & sexual abuse left scars on my psyche & tainted what I now know, is the most valuable asset —my self-worth
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My name is @debbiedixon222 & this is my #yogasavedmylife story, although I also owe my life to an unlikely source— @madonna . As a child of the eighties, she was everything I wanted to be: strong, confident, beautiful & she did yoga. So, I decided I should do yoga too
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My 1st experience on the mat was Traditional Ashtanga, 23 years ago & I can say that was the day I stepped onto my Path to Freedom. My teacher had warned me that yoga had side effects she said, “Yoga will heal your body & your life & you won’t be able eat McDonald’s anymore.” I had no idea just how prophetic that statement was
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Having spent most of my life in survival mode, self-medicating just to make it through the day with drugs, alcohol. Anxiety & panic attacks were a part of life
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But, through yoga, I found myself. Yoga forced me to sit with myself. To find comfort in discomfort. To rely on my breath to get me through. The mantra "This too shall pass." would sometimes be the only thing that got me through. I found peace with myself & my circumstances. I tuned into the blessings in my life & started to change my story from victim to the person who overcame
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It wasn’t overnight. I but then, as if I had spent my whole life sitting in a dark room unaware that light even existed yoga turned on a light within me. About 12 years ago I realized how many other people were just like me. Stuck in the dark. I made it my life goal to shine the light of yoga & healing on as many people as I could
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Now I am the Author of “The Path to Freedom Your guide to living the life of your dreams,” a Life Coach, inspirational speaker & Yoga teacher. I guide people to their own self-discovery through yoga & meditation. ❤️
