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Hormones. (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxasd6tgk6N/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hgv4ht3p5ebk

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“It is not work that tires the person, it is the worry“ Back 2 work today 🌞 —- I feel refreshed & ready to move through things with new intention. Gotta love that ocean energy 🌊🌊 •••• Why am I here? Why am I working this job? Where am I trying to go? What does it serve? How much time to I want to spend doing this? How can I create deadlines for my goals? Does what I’m being surrounded by inspire me to pursue my ultimate goals? If no, what do I need to do to change that? Where is my vision being blurred by ego/ emotion? Am I struggling to define ego? What does my intuition tell me? What is keeping me from taking my next step? What am I doubting? Are the obstacles that I’m foreseeing real or are they my mind/ fear trying to keep me in the safe zone? I ask myself these types of questions about once every 3 months and try to answer in 3 words or less. It helps me to keep things simple and to make decisions quickly. (at Honolulu, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQew1-A30V/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7t0q5cx8pg10

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Anahata 💚 - I live in balance with others. 
There is an infinite supply of love. 
I am loving of myself and others.
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A blocked heart chakra is usually a result of a lack of self love… How to help heal :::: Forgiveness of ourselves and others. 
What were the circumstances, where can you be more honest about them what new perspectives can you use to describe those experiences to yourself. 
Where are you holding onto an interpretation and how can you shape that interpretation to help you move forward. 
How can we witness ourselves + our experiences, let go of the judgement and hardness. 
Through the pain and grief is how we learn and grow. 
Grief is the wound 
Compassion is the healer
( notes from my YTT) (at Portland, Oregon)
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My pale asssss hahaha really excited to be going to Hawaii in a couple weeks 😅 I’m turning into a vampire ... ——- I feel like as a yoga teacher if my goal is anything it’s to help people learn how to listen to their self. (Them selves? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) I don’t usually practice yoga in hopes of going into a certain inversion or really any pose. Usually ... lately my ego has been all about wanting inversions haha I can feel them coming but there’s a lot of areas in my body that need to be prepared before I start putting myself into positions like that. Today’s practice I did a lot of movements that will assist me in getting to inversions without doing any actual inversions. I didn’t do a ton of different postures. I did longer holds and more repetitions in simple postures. ✨✨✨I focused more on using my mind to find new ways of fine tuning those specific postures. Really any yoga pose can be extremely challenging no matter what your ability level is. ⭐️To me the most impressive thing for a person to do in any yoga practice it show that they are consciously taking time to learn how to better listen to their body and in turn their self. One of the biggest lessons yoga has taught me is being more responsible for myself. How I feel, how I react, where I play victim and my ability to do something about that. In a lot of ways yoga has helped me discover the strength to exist in the freedom that is choosing not to play the victim of my own interpretations of whatever my experience may be. It’s been choosing to recognize the things I’m ignoring within my body or within my thought patterns that are keeping me from having whatever experience I wish I was having. Then giving me the option to choose to see that I have the ability to change that reality. And further the option to take action in doing something with that ability. ⭐️ #yoga #beagoddess #pdxyoga #namaste #morningpractice #pdxyogascene #pdxyogateacher #yogainpdx (at Northwest District, Portland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwr9-_9AAnN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zj0rwhto0dm4

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Balancing practice .... ever since I was little I spent a lot of time walking on my toes. Always dancing in the grocery store or trying to to pirouettes in any open space with a hardwood floor. I’ll do a practice like this about once a week where I just play around with how long I can stay on my toes or if I can lift my heels higher. My home practice is very inspired by all the ballet classes I grew up going to (I danced from age 2- 18 ish, I still go to classes from time to time.) I do a lot of exercises we used to do at the bar to target my glutes and I incorporate arm movements during long holds to distract from discomfort. When I move in my home practice with movement I try to think about contemporary dance classes I’ve been to where it is a lot of energy transfer. From low to high, contract and release and I try to incorporate that with breath. I broke my ankle about a year and a half ago (also why I decided I’m not going to buy a skateboard haha) so my muscles are still pretty weak but we’re gettin there! I’d like to lift my heels more, shift my upper body so it’s more like my back is on a wall and move slower. Anyways hope y’all have good weekends #yoga #yogagirl #balance #balancingposture #yogaeverydamnday #yogaeverywhere #yogainspiration #beagoddess #yogafeature (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv5GDGAnbn1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=co8sj984vl0

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Missin skatepark seshes and all the peeps today💔💔 I think I’m gonna buy a skateboard 🤔 •••• Looking back at this video I’d tell...

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R u o k 
ruok 
R u O kai
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Mastering the art of playing fetch while working on standing postures 😂🤦🏻‍♀️ Maybe I’ll start fetch yoga? We meet at a park then see who can stand on one leg and throw the ball the farthest?? And then we will take deep breaths hoping our dogs don’t poop nearby hahaha that’s how I imagine #goatyoga ... very stinky. Lol welp that’s where my brain went today. Hope you guys have a good weekend! (at Vancouver, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvmXgZjHA2f/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=128w3jk02a97d

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🌊🌊🌊 d e e p breath Fresh air & a soft smile -//—-///—- Hopping off and letting go Trusting the wind; Our rooting force the beautiful wild Make me crazy because crazy is all I wanna be As long as what we cannot see carries me, crazy I will be I’ll take the waves I’ll ride them They can drown me Someday I’ll be settled up on the sand But I’ll take my time being smashed into the cliffs So I can settle to the floor Get eaten, spit up and smashed again So one day I can sit on the beach ... Then the wind can move me and show me how to make my mark in the sand Maybe a footprint, maybe just a grazing bit of rock moving across another Only to be washed away and start again — Move me with the barrels With you I’ll laugh We will sing, we will speak and bark Once we’re floating we’ll laugh again and again You make me dizzy and sometimes blind I think the blind might see better The mute are the wise And the rebel’s make the stories that curve your “time” For now I’ll breathe, soften my gaze relax my face and wait for this floating to end I’ll let experience carve my wrinkles Make me messy like the bed I’ll let you mold me into a shape Let’s have fun, make it interesting If this then that Maybe yes maybe no who really knows I don’t really care, I’m just gonna float some more (at Oceanside, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvj3YFLnj9C/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fnj3zwri749c

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Playing around with leg variations in headstand a bit, seeing if I can do more micro movements to engage deeper core muscles. I working on finding more stamina in headstand and forearm stand. I think it’ll be beneficial to get used to being upside down longer in other postures first, so that I can create muscle memory for when I’m starting to get wobbly. Hope y’all are having a good week 🤪🤪 It’s beautiful out! (at Goose Hollow, Portland) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvPJ4e7HBQ6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17fcc17x5j7nn

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Really really wanna be able to handstand, still a ways away. Doing extra core work lately & getting back into going to yoga classes more regularly. Something I’ve noticed about handstand practice is it really brings to the surface imbalances between each side. I’ll be upside down soon enough 🤪 Going to my first @corepoweryoga class today! (at Washington Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvKAP4DnXqj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vvqwl9q1lwb7

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I’ve been a pretty rigid person and I’m still that way. Id rather poke and scare people away then soften up. Being icy is safer, but I can feel myself craving fluidity, warmth. It’s interesting to become aware of this force field I created to keep people away. I didn’t even realize I did it. And then looking back at versions of myself over the last few years like what even was that? What was I thinking? All those things. I have no regrets but my priorities have definitely shifted. I have been heavy and distant for a while. It was hard to me to digest a lot of the ugly parts of nature and find peace with that. I got stuck. I’ve been like a puffer fish, all my protective barriers up but no way to swim. I used to tell that to my younger brother but didn’t apply it to myself. (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvABZ66n-C0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9jz2jcxwtnql

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