#vriksasana

[fashiontimeless]

Vriksasana 🌳

[zozammer]

Singular

It is terrifying.

The idea of having no one who you can call yours.

Sometimes you feel like you have a best friend, and that sort of fizzles out too. Either you or them finds a partner to be whole, together with. Or you don't have a family you can call your own, no mum or dad or brother or sister whom you can be your fragile self around. Or a team of workers (a rare thing to find an office family now that we are digital nomads) to wake up to and make meaning together, or a clique of monstrous, like-minded friends whom you can catch the wave with. Sometimes it's hard being in a relationship with your own partner because there is no such thing as a perfect fit; just spells, potions, and acts of kindness.

Vriksasana or the tree pose is one of my favourite balancing poses among the asanas. Where you keep your one leg firmly pressed onto the ground like a tree, with all the pressure on your mound as your toes taper out like roots. Your other leg is bent and dug firmly into your pelvis, with the feet resting on the other thigh. Tall, absolutely straight, balanced - unfettered by the wind and

You go shooting up towards the sky with your body stretched upwards. Open eyes, relaxed smile, a straight elongated back.

This would be what you call a steady, graceful stretch, upward, outward and very much inward.

The thing about certain people who grow up without a home, is that they are naturally built to please anyone who offers them one; to serve, to want to belong to, to fill this gigantic void of this lack of identity, to feel worthy, to feel connected, valued, and seen.

To be angered by the uneven playing field on a daily basis. To shut up and bulk up. Try their best to be nice inspite of the exclusions, norms, stigmas, and questions; despite the endless self pity.

Real independence is the real acceptance of one's alone-ness. This is hard. It only sinks in when it sinks in. A straight back is the key to life. Inner posture - outer posture.

To truly accept that it's you who's got your own back. It's you who gets yourself into your messes. It's you who gets yourself out of them. You are your own bend, rise, flow and fall. Self-damnation, self-salvation, self-liberation.

100% a movement of your own mental and physical muscles.

To not expect.

To not hold on to.

To gently let go off things that are not meant for you.

To love anyway.

To give the benefit of doubt.

To be free and give freely.

To not be bound by memory.

These things sound hard but actually they're the lightest things one can do for oneself and others.

The ideas of love, loyalty and belonging. Such are engulfing. Wonder what would happen if I allowed myself to expect such and manifest such. Would I be setting myself up for failure? The key is to not expect in return I suppose. Singular, tall, free, and bountiful.

Still transitioning in my process. I've come a long way since being overly attached to friends, lovers and ideas. Finding myself less attached to labels. Find it funny how you get a different reaction about who you are from different people, all vastly different in their idea of you.

Makes you realise how impermanent and how illusive 'you' are.

Trees belong to the earth and live in the sky. Strong, vital, approachable and ready to nourish those who pass them by... Well some trees are really tall and hard to reach.

[byinkandco]

You’ve got to root to rise 🌳 🧘🏼‍♀️@kadiearobbins 📷 @marakbai • • • • • #treepose #yogi #yoga #vriksasana #travel #wanderlust #niagarafalls #summer #balance #wellness (at Niagara Falls, Ontario)

[yogaboygreece-blog]

#yoga #yogalove #yogaworks #yogateacher #yogaeveryday #yogaeverydamnday #yogaeverywhere #religion #compassion #vriksasana #greece #mykonos #fokos #fokosbeach

[xtremeroads]

#vriksasana Posture is in tree form strong balanced and at this particular place where mountain like Neelkanth is right in front of me is giving me strength of acquiring that balance come what May...so what if there was heavy wind breezing me away from my spot but with this Namaskar I was energised looking at that view right in front of me. The day when I completed the circuit of #chardhamyatra. This is Badrinathdham and I headed upwards after receiving blessings from Badrinathtemple towards the glaciers of Neelkanth peak. When I was child I always hated the concept of such yatra which are mandatory to do in life time and basically our older generation are more adamant of travelling this journey to attain salvation. I used to feel why is it so that we have to do this yatra in Hinduism...but basically it is in all religion they have their respective holy places where they have to go in life time. I travelled this journey not by the thought of compulsory or mandatory rules made by community but I had my devotion towards my travel with complete dedication. And by this travel I can give my viewers complete idea and information which may help them in near future whenever they visit such places. But I am grateful, I travel this journey of Chardham and was able to feel the essence divine holy rivers and their importance in Mythology. Rivers flowing from different location of glaciers around Uttrakhand meet at a confluence at different locations to make one Ganga. And that made me more emotional in my journey of Chardham. Immature Writer Xtreme Vaishali #xtremeroads #vaishaliseta #badrinathdham #namasteyindia #namaste🙏 # (at Badrinath Dham - बद्रीनाथ धाम) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJagkRmH1HX/?igshid=96frgwyfplh5

[yogi-mara]

Day 14 - #treepose #vriksasana #getyouryogaon (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFKMhYfjrpj/?igshid=a6xrbpy50j0u

[meinzmatters]

“Yoga is a light, which once lit will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter your flame.” ― B.K.S Iyengar #vriksasana #tanomahsaudiarabia #saudisummer #yogiforlofe #yoga #yogainnature #meinzmatters #covidsummer2020 #yogaeverydamnday https://www.instagram.com/p/CC-aqEWHST-/?igshid=o6yv2g97iwav

[musitatva]

#trikonasana #vriksasana #bakasana #halasana #yogapractice #yogaeverydamnday #yoga #yogachallenge @yoga_with_char_ @yoga_sarana @yoga https://www.instagram.com/p/CCvwovgjPUb/?igshid=67fpaft1rx30