Yoga Practice

A record and journal of my yoga practice as I continue an intense year of yoga teacher training with Yoganize by Karen Noonan.

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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

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If you are depressed, you are living in the Past. If you are anxious, living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the moment.

Lao Tzu

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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Chinese Proverb (via lazyyogi)

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Mountain Meditation

Sitting Tall.  Eyes closed.  Hands rest on knees in mudra position.

Imagine you are a tall Mountain.

Your root is securely grounded and established.

The veins in your body are streams of divine water giving your mountain everything that it needs.

Your crown is the peak of the mountain, basking in sunlight, warming the land.

Your thoughts are clouds that grow thinner and thinner and thinner until they disperse, dissolve, and disappear.  Leaving you with a bright open sky - filled with possibility, light, and freedom.

Your streams rush with soft provision, nourishing.

Your plants flourish and your animals have babies.  

Your mountain is filled with abundance.  Flowers spread across the meadow igniting each blade of grass with popping color.  Birds sing with exuberance.

All things grow.

You can almost hear the trees humming with satisfaction.

On your mountain, all is well.

All is healed.

Your spine is a tall, strong rod that runs through the center of your mountain and connects to Source.

As your mountain increases, its roots grow deeper into the ground clasping the earth with greater strength, and your peak grows taller stretching up towards the sky with confidence.

The rod channels your inner prayer.  It travels from Source and answers the longing of your soul.

The love of the Universe saturates your body from the deepest places within and radiates from your skin outward into the world.

Mentally, say the name of God, as it is to you.

Repeat the name of God as an internal chant.

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Benefits:

Stimulates abdominal organs, ovaries, and prostate gland, bladder, and kidneys.  

Stimulates the heart and improves general circulation.  

Stretches the inner thighs, groins, and knees.  

Helps relieve mild depression, anxiety, and fatigue.

Soothes menstrual discomfort and sciatica.

Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause.

Therapeutic for flat feet, high blood pressure, infertility, and asthma.

Consistent practice of this pose is said to help ease childbirth.

Source: Yoga Journal

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Imagination

The best use of imagination is creativity.  The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

-Deepak Chopra

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This is the mystics' supreme goal: knowing their real nature, they know their own immortality and realize their union with eternal Being.

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Yoga is evenness of mind: detachment from the dualities of pain and pleasure, success and failure.

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Just as death is certain for the living, rebirth is certain for the dead.

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We cannot heal what we cannot feel. -John Bradshaw

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Affirmations Tonight

I am strong. I am founded. I pull up the Earth's energy into my root and absorb Heaven's energy from the crown of my head. I fully receive the blessings of the universe. I am connected to Source. I am forgiven. I FORGIVE all wrongs done to me. I will not punish anyone; I will not hold onto my wound. God heals me fully. I am sound. I am balanced. I receive kindness and I inject kindness into the world. I imagine it filling the entire universe until suffering ceases entirely. I am compassionate. The Truth is in me and I trust my innermost being. Beneath thoughts. I send hope into the world. I am Light. I am whole. I am peaceful. The light of God is in me.

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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If we think of the chakras as analogous to holes in a flute, then you can see how we need to be able to open and close each one in order to play a full range. -Anodea Judith

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The language of God is stillness.  Everything else is a bad translation.  -Eckhart Tolle

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