Laruga Yoga

I'm an American Ashtanga yoga teacher living in Stockholm, Sweden. Welcome to my visual/inspirational library. For more on my teaching schedule in Stockholm and international workshops, retreats and intensives, visit me at www.larugayoga.com.

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No amount of talk or analysis will replace the action required to face ourselves in practice and in life. There are a million and one things that call to our attention and distract from what is truly important. There are even those who count on it. Whatever discipline you choose make sure it brings you to the center—facing and confronting all that you are, the good, the bad, the ugly—because we can never change what we are not willing to face. 🤍🕊

#movemindfully #elevateyoursoul

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Ashtanga Yoga Safari Retreat 🦓🐆🐘🦏

12 — 19 March 2022 @thesafariretreat

| Book before 31 October and get $300 off | 🐾

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[thoughtkick]

“Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz

[philosophybits]

“It would be a mistake to think that the average man loves freedom. A still greater mistake would be to suppose that freedom is an easy thing. Freedom is a difficult thing. It is easier to remain in slavery.”

— Nikolai Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom

[justdave-deactivated20211107]

“It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.”

— Adyashanti

[thoughtkick]

“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.”

— John Green

[thoughtkick]

“He who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.”

— Anne Brontë, The Narrow Way

[utwo]

Juvet Landscape Hotel Norway

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is located in a remote part of a remote village in a remote region of Norway. The village Valdal is located in Fjord municipality , about 90 minutes driving from the city of Ålesund, or one hour from Åndalsnes via the national tourist route of Trollstigen, or one hour from the UNESCO world heritage area of Geiranger.

[thoughtkick]

“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but actually you’ve been planted.”

— Christine Caine

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“Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful.”

— Buddha

[philosophybits]

“As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.”

— Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Awareness is from moment to moment, it is not the cumulative effect of self-protective memories. Awareness is not determination nor is it the action of will. Awareness is the complete and unconditional surrender to what is, without rationalization, without the division of the observer and the observed. As awareness is non-accumulative, non-residual, it does not build up the self, positively or negatively. Awareness is ever in the present and so, non-identifying and non-repetitive; nor does it create habit.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

[stillnesswithin]

“There is a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought… It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there’s a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable…”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti (via cobotis)

[thoughtkick]

7 Quick Happiness Tips

1. Don’t listen to gossip.

2. Ignore what people say about you.

3. Design your own life.

4. Look for the good in every situation.

5. Develop an attitude of gratitude.

6. Laugh more.

7. Once it’s past, let it go.

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Credit: @moderndaymanifestations

[isomorphismes]

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.”

— Maya Angelou

[thecalminside]

“Life only demands from you the strength you possess.”

Dag Hammarskjold