Align Within Yoga

This, my dear, is the greatest challenge to being alive: to witness injustice in the world and not allow it to consume our light.💫✨️✨️✨️✨️
- Thich Nhat Hanh

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The problems and injustices in this world all need to be tended, but they need to be tended from the truth of our connection. Love is the greatest power and it’s who we really are.

It’s true, you are the web of life agreeing to play the role of you. 🤲

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being."
💫 Hafiz 💫

The mindset to Acceptance and Peace ...
practice small...
to help deal with the big.

"You fear losing what was never yours.
Nothing belongs to you but the journey."
- Shams-e Tabrīzī

Its been a minute or two.
Life was busy.
In a very good way.💞
Road trips, friends, work, friends, places I love, friends ... see a pattern?😘
Then the bomb.💣
Lay off. 10 yrs of building relationships, learning new and different ways of doing things, contributing to patient wellness.
My whole career (30+ yrs) has been "a patient advocate through safe and effective medical devices". Helping. Contributing as positively as possible.
And it still is.✨️
Layoff doesn't mean we're not enough. It's not personal.
Matter of fact, if we always led/lead with integrity and self respect, it's their loss really.
Layoff can be a time to
Re-
~Center🌺
~Connect to our essence🌷
~Commit to our joy🌻
~Evaluate what we want🌼
~Align to our values🪻
~Juvinate that light inside🕯
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We are enough. Always have been. Always will be.

"Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these few words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life we have refused again and again
until now.
Until now."
- David Whyte

Without the stability and alertness of a tamed mind, how can we be present? Therefore, mindfully, gently, and repeatedly we train in coming back.🤍
- Pema Chodron

Giving ourselves grace...right where we are.♡

"Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold onto or reject anything."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Teaching Veterans YOGA is still such a wonderful honor.
Thank you to those who sacrificed so much...🌹

I remember being told as a very young girl, "accepting compliments is conceited"...
What?😳
And as an adult, I was complimented by a partner, couldn't accept it and he said, "you just completely dismissed a compliment, essentially ignoring my appreciation of you..."
In that moment, he was right. But this had been my response based on what I was taught...
I have shifted and been more aware and gracious, but it wasn't until 45 yrs old that I was really aware....
Every day. A new day. To practice something new.