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Seane is one of my favorite people/yogi's, so I was thrilled to read this book and learn more about her life.
Here are some of the sections that stood out:
As a body-based meditation, yoga invites us to focus, stabilize, and move with more awareness.
When we let the mind dictate what our practice should look like or say about us, we've moved from a body-based practice to an ego-based one.
Asana can help you move any agitation out of your mind and into your body so you can identify it, notice where it lives, and release it.
I simply shoved all those emotions down, where they have remained trapped in my body ever since and have formed a deep layer of protective tension. Tension that I have long relied on to actually help me feel safe, or at least alert. Tension that practicing yoga had begun to release.
I could explain how I felt, but I couldn't always feel what I felt.
It's all old shit. And it's all too much. So, you go into shutdown as a way to project. This is how you've survived the overwhelm you felt as a kid, but it doesn't work anymore. You need to let your crazy voices speak.
Self-confidence comes from knowing who you really are - in here. She points to my heart and taps it. When you know that, you will always be whole. Be rinsing the crazy voices, by releasing the animal rage, you give voice to the ego and let the shadow self out. This creates space for the truth hidden under the suppression to make its way to the surface.
Sometimes our pain is our purpose. And the very thing you have been running from, once empowered, becomes the very place from which you will serve. It's the gift of karma. It's called empathy. And it's what will heal this world.
Go beyond the admitting, beyond the noticing - which was all ego-driven - and name our feelings, feel them, get down into the muck, and engage with them.
As long as we remain in separation on a personal level, we are perpetuating the very disconnect we with to transform on a global one.
My first mistake was to think that what worked for me would automatically work for them. I came equipped with sequences and breathing techniques that had changed my life and a whole spiel about the power of yoga, all of which was met with skepticism and plenty of eye rolls. . . I didn't get that yoga is more than a set of class plans, more than my personal experience, that yoga's power is in its ability to change and adapt and meet the needs of the population it's serving.
If we are to heal one another, we must commit to healing the earth; if we are to heal the earth, we must begin with ourselves.
In permaculture, as well as in yoga and other Eastern traditions, everything is connected, and nothing exists in isolation.
These kleshas, or personal obstacles, include ignorance, pride or ego, desire, aversion, and fear or attachment. They are not character flaws, rather, they are interruptions or disturbances that throw us off track. And it's part of our asana and meditation practice to identify and work with them. You'll notice that these kleshas start wit our mental obstacles and then move into our emotional ones.
The ego rejects the unknown, clinging desperately to the known.
For you to hurt this badly only means you got to love that big, and if that's all you get in a single lifetime, you are more than blessed. That's all there is. Love. Let that love lead your life and your choices. Let it become who you are, and just be grateful. For all of it. Life is really bad, but it's also really good.
Here are some of the sections that stood out:
As a body-based meditation, yoga invites us to focus, stabilize, and move with more awareness.
When we let the mind dictate what our practice should look like or say about us, we've moved from a body-based practice to an ego-based one.
Asana can help you move any agitation out of your mind and into your body so you can identify it, notice where it lives, and release it.
I simply shoved all those emotions down, where they have remained trapped in my body ever since and have formed a deep layer of protective tension. Tension that I have long relied on to actually help me feel safe, or at least alert. Tension that practicing yoga had begun to release.
I could explain how I felt, but I couldn't always feel what I felt.
It's all old shit. And it's all too much. So, you go into shutdown as a way to project. This is how you've survived the overwhelm you felt as a kid, but it doesn't work anymore. You need to let your crazy voices speak.
Self-confidence comes from knowing who you really are - in here. She points to my heart and taps it. When you know that, you will always be whole. Be rinsing the crazy voices, by releasing the animal rage, you give voice to the ego and let the shadow self out. This creates space for the truth hidden under the suppression to make its way to the surface.
Sometimes our pain is our purpose. And the very thing you have been running from, once empowered, becomes the very place from which you will serve. It's the gift of karma. It's called empathy. And it's what will heal this world.
Go beyond the admitting, beyond the noticing - which was all ego-driven - and name our feelings, feel them, get down into the muck, and engage with them.
As long as we remain in separation on a personal level, we are perpetuating the very disconnect we with to transform on a global one.
My first mistake was to think that what worked for me would automatically work for them. I came equipped with sequences and breathing techniques that had changed my life and a whole spiel about the power of yoga, all of which was met with skepticism and plenty of eye rolls. . . I didn't get that yoga is more than a set of class plans, more than my personal experience, that yoga's power is in its ability to change and adapt and meet the needs of the population it's serving.
If we are to heal one another, we must commit to healing the earth; if we are to heal the earth, we must begin with ourselves.
In permaculture, as well as in yoga and other Eastern traditions, everything is connected, and nothing exists in isolation.
These kleshas, or personal obstacles, include ignorance, pride or ego, desire, aversion, and fear or attachment. They are not character flaws, rather, they are interruptions or disturbances that throw us off track. And it's part of our asana and meditation practice to identify and work with them. You'll notice that these kleshas start wit our mental obstacles and then move into our emotional ones.
The ego rejects the unknown, clinging desperately to the known.
For you to hurt this badly only means you got to love that big, and if that's all you get in a single lifetime, you are more than blessed. That's all there is. Love. Let that love lead your life and your choices. Let it become who you are, and just be grateful. For all of it. Life is really bad, but it's also really good.