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25.01.2022 The mind is truly fickle. But, it frequents places familiar to it. Therefore, show it often the experience of the Self. ~ Jnaneshwar Maharaj (A sweet reminder... every practice is another drop in the bucket. Every practice contributes another step on your path back home. )

22.01.2022 The ‘goal’ of sadhana is not to see God or become divine. You already are divine. To experience your divine nature you first have to become human. The human within you will pull the divine towards you. You will not need to run after divinity. ~ Swami Rama

20.01.2022 Here is a little extract from the Keeping a Personal Sadhana chapter I wrote in the Change Yoga + Wellness Yoga Teacher Training manual (I’ve been working on it madly these last few months!). Sweet reminder: remember to practice! For yourself and your students. Building and maintaining a consistent personal yoga practice (sadhana) is essential for a you as a yoga teacher. As you begin your teaching journey, you might find the excitement of planning classes and creatin...g offerings has an impact on your ability to make time to show up on your own mat, just for yourself. Take this as a sweet reminder not to let your own practice dwindle. Authentic teaching comes from experience, and we can only teach what we know ourselves. Your personal practice is where you teach ‘from’ so that you can gift your students with the teachings as you’ve lived themand not something you’ve just regurgitated from a training or book. Keep the light of your sadhana burning strongly and brightly so that your yoga shines not only from your mind and body, but also from your heart. (Ps. If you’ve been thinking of taking a Yoga Teacher Training... now is the time! Join us online and in person in January 2021. Link to more info here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJDRoQ-h-a2/)

18.01.2022 YTT: 2021 teacher training begins On Saturday I had the honour (and pleasure!) of sharing one of my deepest passions with a room full of incredible trainee yoga teachers. Delivering the first module of their training: Yoga history, philosophy, and developing a personal practice (via Zoom!) I wanted to share this content in a way that was super relaxed and relatable because... to me that’s the most efficient way to eventually apply it to everyday life, and isn’t that w...hat we practice for anyway: to make everyday life better? No renouncing of belongings or cave dwelling over here: the yoga happens here and now in the way we respond to the beauty and mess of life as it is. Congratulations to you incredible trainee teachers for having the courage to begin your journeys. And to @drkellietooheyyoga for creating such a beautiful offering. And to @kerrysolomoncoaching and @justine_janssenremedy for sharing your incredible wisdom. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of it all. The first portion of study continues until May 2021. I can’t wait to watch you all evolve. And to see you all in person soon! May your practice become the wings of your soul. Heart is full! #sadhana #YTT

16.01.2022 SMARANA ‘Remembrance of the sacred’ Those moments where the earth lovingly intrudes simply to remind us that out beyond the busy days, the illusions of urgency, the never-ending to do lists... we are a part of something so very big and beautiful. And importantly: we carry that same sacred essence within ourselves. ... This is the view my little family and I are blessed with on a clear evening from the end of our street: Mt Warning across the Tweed River. Something about this wonky shaped grand mountain makes my heart ache in a good way. It feels like home in my bones, in some ancient way, and when I see it I remember all of that which is sacred within my own heart. I am so thankful for these reminders popping up in the day. Perfectly captured by the talented @julia__marr A practice for you, sweet friends: What view or element in nature always takes your breath away? Is there a place inside you where you ‘feel’ that moment? What does sacred mean to you? Don’t ever lose your connection to that part of yourself!

14.01.2022 ‘Module one: yoga philosophy, tradition, and diving into practice.’ This morning I put the finishing touches on this baby, and she’s off with the printers! Module one of the yoga teacher training manual. 24,000 words. Months of stealing time to write it (in between moving house, juggling two kids, and over the past fortnight solo-parenting while my husband was away having surgery!). Often writing in the drivers seat parked in strange locations while my girls nap in the ba...ck of the car. Blood, sweat, tears and so much love poured into it (...and it’s only Module 1!). I have adored every moment of the research, practice, and heart it has taken to pull this content and design together. I cannot wait to kick off this training on Saturday with you @drkellietooheyyoga I feel so very honoured to be taking trainee teachers through the first day of their study, sharing the philosophical foundations of this beloved practice (via Zoom nonetheless!). See you soon yogis. #YTT #yogateachertraining See more

13.01.2022 The gift of time I’ve had the pleasure of coming to class a few times a week with the incredible Dee from @deva_co. Unlike a typical ‘mums n bubs’ class, Dee’s ‘Mama Flow’ class offers a space for mums to practice solo while they have their babies minded separately by her in-house baby whisperer. Not only are Dee’s classes incredibly nourishing on every level but they offer the gift of time and space that many mamas may otherwise not get to themselves. I feel my ‘cup’ is... even fuller at the moment which helps me to be a better mum. Time and space are such valuable giftsthey may even be the exact gift somebody needs most! Some things to ponder, as we enter the season of gift-buying: How might you give somebody in your life the gift of space and time to themselves? (offering to relieve someone of a duty is an idea! Especially a parent!) Could this replace a less useful item as a Christmas gift? (Think of it like a gift voucher! I’m sure somebody out there would prefer to spend a quiet hour to themselves rather than receive another pair of socks... ) Next time you spoil yourself: how might you gift yourself some time, rather than another throw-away item? *Photo at the end of my sweet Violet fresh from a nap. And the beautiful space at @happychakrayoga. Thanks Dee you are the best! x

12.01.2022 BLOG POST // 8 tips for loving + sticking with a morning meditation practice When you wake up in the morning, how soon do you begin checking emails or scrolling through your phone? I had sometimes checked mine quite soon after I woke upuntil I noticed that it always led to spending part of my morning meditation practice contemplating a reply to an email, or remembering something more to add to the day's 'to-do list'. ... Since promising myself not to check the phone until after breakfast I've found so much more mindful space to begin the day from each morning because my mind stays out of ‘thinking’ mode. My meditation practice is even more enjoyable and grounding. I've written a blog post with a mix bag of my favourite tried and tested tips, including this one, that may help you get even more from your own morning meditation practice. (Don't worry, if you're a PM practitioner some tips are definitely still useful!). Link to the post is below. Happy practicing! https://aimee.yoga//8-tips-for-loving-sticking-with-a-morn

11.01.2022 Simple grounding Bare feet on the earth. I do this every morning. Such a simple practice and yet one of my favourite moments of the day. On the days where I wake up feeling less than clear, or with a lingering indescribable emotion... bare feet on the warm wet grass re-anchors me. Feeling it with the morning air and sound of birds instantly reminds me of my place within something bigger: a perspective that inspires me to move into the rest of my day with more openness and ...trust. Sweet wordless moments that say oh so much to my heart. PRACTICE: Sweet yogisI offer a practice for you today: Free your feet and step outside barefoot before you rush out the door. Bring your cuppa (and a child on your hip if personal space is hard to negotiate!). Step onto the grass, the concrete, tiles, driveway, warm, cold, wet, it doesn’t matter. Feel the temperature and the texture. Close your eyes. Let yourself be sensitive enough that the subtle is allowed to be powerful. Breathe. Think of all you are a part of. Think of what and who you’re grateful for. Remember all that has brought you to this very moment. Let the silent answers colour the way you step back into the day. Simple, sweet but powerful practices to bring you back home available always to you right here, right now.

11.01.2022 IT’S ALL SACRED Some days I have to laugh at it all: life as a yogi and a parent offers itself as a beautiful (yet sometimes challenging) tapestry of contrasting threads; opposites weaving across and through each other. Bliss and chaos. Simplicity and complexity. Silence and screaming. Meditation and toddler tantrums. Kirtan and the Peppa Pig intro song. Mindful movement on the mat... and another scraped knee. The smell of burning incense... and the smell of changing a na...ppy. Devotional candlelit offerings at my altar... and another spilt bowl of cereal. And yet: it is all so perfect. And it’s all yoga. A valuable perspective yoga has given me: to see the messy moments as equally sacred to the tidy ones. After all, nobody builds resilience or patience or optimism or compassion through comfort. We need the ugly, the uncomfortable, the painful, and the undesirable to teach us how to locate our centre in the dark. How to counter and recover and to move ‘with’ things to overcome them. Our job is to practice opening our palms again and againto dissolve the gap between the seemingly perfect and imperfect, to give life an unobstructed chance to flow through us. An offering of contemplation and practice for you, sweet friends (especially the mamas and papas!): Practice observing moments where you are so attached to an outcome, or to being comfortable, that it creates frictionand see if you can soften enough to welcome discomfort in just as gently. Notice how practicing gratitude can help to diffuse the intensity of categorising experiences as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Practice smiling (even if invisibly!) when discomfort overflowsand see if the silver linings whisper to you a little louder. Practice love over everything else. May we each find the courage to keep welcoming the ongoing practice of softening and opening. Hari Om. #sadhana

10.01.2022 Sweetness in simple things I am enjoying the mindfulness practice of finding small ways to add sweetness into my day. And I often discover sweetness resides in very simple things: like in lighting incense. And in taking a slow eyes-closed belly breath. And in adding honey to my tea. And in getting outside during sunset. And in feeling grass under my feet. And in reading a single page of beautiful words, like this one, and allowing it to steep in my heart for a little while. Simple, sweet, nourishing, beautiful, everyday things. Grateful for these mini pathways back home. #sadhana #rumi

09.01.2022 800 DAYS OF SADHANA The thing that helps me show up to meditate every day: I do it with no striving for perfection, or for enlightenment, or for magic, or for any particular outcome at all. The Bhagavad Gita says: Without concerns for results, perform the necessary action; surrendering all attachments... act for the action’s sake. For me, it became easier to show up regularly when I shifted from the mindset of what’s in it for me?, to the attitude of: what can I give to my practice today?. Sometimes it’s a lot. Sometimes it’s not very much. But the power is in the returning with open palms, always. In devotion to a practice that opens my heart a little more each day.... grateful, grateful, grateful. #sadhana #800days

09.01.2022 I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, ... because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke See more

07.01.2022 PRACTICE AS MEDICINE How does it feel for you when you stretch into your side body? I hear students say after a class focused on lateral bends that they feel open and free. Unsurprisingly that’s the energetic effect that this category of poses is meant to offer: lateral bends are expansive in the way they create more space for the breath to flow freely. They also cultivate Vyana vayu: the directional flow of energy (or prana) outward from our centre. ... Radiating energy in this way supports healthy circulation: not only of blood and oxygen but of the more subtle layers of our thoughts and emotions too. Here we can uncover qualities within us that are fearless, outgoing, better able to express our love and ideas and to connect to the world in healthy ways. (...a worthy note: we get the most benefit from expansive practices when we are already feeling calm and steady). For your contemplation, fellow yogi: What are the qualities you wish to uncover from within yourself at the moment? Which yoga poses are you currently most drawn toward? How might you shift your practice or routine in order to better serve where you are in your life right now? Remember that our practice becomes medicine when we allow it. (...and don’t forget we can still study togethersign up for the YTT with @changeyogaandwellness, the earlybird special is on until 30 November!)

06.01.2022 TURNING CHORE INTO RITUAL Every night before I go to bed I clean the house... and I’ve allowed it to become a sacred ritual. Toys away, floors swept up, surfaces clear and wiped down, dishes done. Not to crazy perfection, but nonetheless tidy. I do it so that in the morning when I come out before sunrise for my yoga practice I can feel fresh and clear (and confident that I can walk barefoot in the dark without any surprises! ). It makes preparing for my practice the fo...llowing morning smooth, efficient and predictable because I know where everything is: candle, lighter, incense, coffee mug all in their places. In Sanskrit the word for this is Saucha ~ which means purity, order, cleanliness. Even nights when it’s late and I’m very tired and just want to go to bed, I still show up for it because I also understand that it is part of my yoga, which is an offering to something much bigger than myself. And so in showing up for it, cleaning too becomes an offering from the heart. A shift in perspective to uncover the magic in the mundane (yep, even the chores). For our contemplation: how might you shift your perspective so as to make an everyday task more meaningful? (...and perhaps even sacred?).

05.01.2022 On this path, effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear. ~ The Bhagavad Gita A sweet reminder that every moment of practice (even the seemingly ‘bad’ practices!) helps you on your path. Every moment contributes another step toward remembering all that lay within you. ... I have returned to studying this epic story as I do almost every yeareach time I find something more to learn; something new resonates. Sharing the Bhagavad Gita in the teacher training curriculum I’m writing helps me connect to it with yet another new perspective. Gratitude to this incredible practice: to the way ancient teachings are so easily accessible to us today; to the way their lessons carry potency throughout time; and to the way I feel they bring so much purpose and depth to my own life. Have you read the Gita? Is there a particular teaching that calls to you, or that you love to return to?

05.01.2022 Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear, I meet the warrior who lives within; Opening to my loss,... I am given unimaginable gifts; Surrendering into emptiness, I find fullness without end. Each condition I flee from pursues me. Each condition I welcome transforms me And becomes itself transformed Into its radiant jewel-like essence. I bow to the one who has made it so, Who has crafted this Master Game; To play it is pure delight, To honor it is true devotion. ~ Jennifer Welwood #flowersonmywalk See more

04.01.2022 FOOD AS MEDICINE I definitely needed to make some adjustments to my daily routine after these past mega months. Big life changes (including becoming a mama of two, and then moving to a new climate) means the wellness routine that was previously keeping me in balance needed some tinkering to serve me where I’m at now. My constitution is Vata-Pitta and boy, I noticed immediately after moving north that my body and mind felt the heat up hereand more than just the temperature.... It showed up in my body, my mind, my temper... (just ask my husband ). I really needed someone to guide me back to balance! To remind me to simplify. To let go of a few things. To bring back in more sweetness to balance the heat, and regulate my Agni (digestive fire). I already had a number of Ayurvedic practices in my routine, but it is so helpful to have someone so knowledgeable guide you through a re-set when you need one. Feeling thankful, inspired and more prepared to be continuing on this new path with your guidance Julie @byronfooddoctor thank you x How empowering it is to remember that everyone holds the power to heal themselves through mindful choice of food, drink, herbs, sleep, practices etc. We are our own best medicine. #ayurveda See more

01.01.2022 SANKALPA: resolve for the new year ahead Hello sweet friends. I hope this crazy year has at the very least brought you a new perspective to inspire the way you want to move into 2021. A line that stuck with me this year: Doubt is like poison to a seeker on the path. Doubt closes the heart, leads to stagnation and stucknessand is a worthy habit to burn.... This year also reminded me that amidst soooo much change and uncertainty, there are certain pathways through it ~ consciously practicing love, gratitude, trust and contentment. Simple things. In the year ahead in my own practice I choose to focus on surrendering all doubt about myself, about others, about the world, and beyond... in yoga the word for doubt is Samsaya (): it’s specifically listed as an obstacle on our path to enlightenment. Imagine a life without doubt, hey? Sounds like freedom to me. I hope this year brought you some kind of freedom (even if it didn’t seem like it at the time!). Don’t forget that all you need is already within you! Blessings for 2021.