Freedom Flow Yoga

You deserve to be in environments that bring out the ✨ softness in you ✨ not the survival in you
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Winter sunrise 🧡🧡

I always feel a naturally pull at this time of year to rest more. Im going to really intentionally lean into that over the next while! There is often such a pressure in the run up to Christmas to be go go go. How about you lean into more rest and align yourself with the cycles of nature? See how it feels 🧡 see how you feel 🧡

Have you heard of restorative and yin yoga?

Do you know that they are actually really really different practices? Both involve long holds, using lots of props, moving slow and stillness but each practice is designed to support you in completely different ways

✨ Restorative ✨ encourages you to rest by supporting you right where you are, just as you are

✨ Yin ✨ encourages you to sit with some discomfort and explore your habitual reactions to discomfort

Both are beautiful practices, which can support us in our lives. But in different ways. Since doing my yin training last I’ve become more aware of teachers and studios advertising a restorative/yin class, and it really just adds to the confusion of what each practice is and I think it does both practices such a disservice.

I’ve been talking to some teacher friends about it lately and it’s led to such interesting conversations. Share your thoughts with me!

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others”

Cyclical living ::: align yourself to the cycles of nature

Look around and you’ll see the cycles of nature everywhere (including within you)

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This one deserves its own spot on my page 👏🏼

Keep surrounding yourself with people who believe in your dreams, who hold up the mirror to you, who don’t let you play small with your precious life, who remind you to believe in yourself when self doubt kicks in ✨

So much to digest after first weekend of pregnancy and women’s yoga training with and a beautiful group of women

I’m feeling like I’m exactly where I need to be and that this training is going to expand me in all sorts of ways 🌀

A thought that’s front of mind after the last two days: Get comfortable with the uncomfortable ~ by breathing right into that space ~ right into the epicentre of it ~ be with it ~ and let it expand you ❤️

Practices that encourage stillness, silence and moving slowly* ~ for me that’s where the shifts come from 💫
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If are practices are always geared towards moving quickly and rushing from one movement to the next ~ how can we HEAR ourselves? How can we NOTICE how we are actually doing physically, emotionally, energetically and even spiritually? And if we don’t notice what’s there how can we choose what changes and shifts we want to make next in our lives? 🌀
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If you feel burned out and are craving to connect with yourself more, come join me next month for the Yin & live Piano workshop ~ it will be a lovely space to explore what a Yin practice is like 🌙
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(*also it’s so interesting how the words slow and stillness have the connotations of being ‘easy’ in society, of not being as worthwhile ~ in my experience they are actually much much harder than moving quickly and distracting and avoiding yourself, in both Yin and Yang practices!)
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