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25.01.2022 Practising ahimsa is both individual and nuanced. We want to balance our practise of reducing harm to others and the environment with a practise of reducing harm to ourselves . So being kind and compassionate to someone who is taking advantage of and hurting us, may be a violation of ahimsa towards ourselves. . I became a vegetarian back in 2015 as a conscious decision to practise ahimsa towards the earth. When I fell pregnant last year I decide to start eating meat aga...in so I was not causing harm to myself or my baby by missing essential nutrients in my diet . There is no one sized fits all way to practise ahimsa. It’s about, getting still and quiet and doing the self enquiry, noticing the ways in which you are violating ahimsa in your life and then setting the intention to reduce harm in whichever ways feels most relevant and appropriate at that time in your life . . . . See more

24.01.2022 a h i m s a . n o n v i o l e n c e . In patanjali’s yoga sutras there are several lists and the order of things on these lists is said by scholars to be very important ... . Ahimsa is the first of 5 yamas and the yamas are the first limb of yoga. So ahimsa is a pretty friggin important part of yoga practise . It’s so important that it’s said that if you become firmly established in ahimsa you need not worry about the rest of the yamas, they will already by satisfied . . . . See more

23.01.2022 Sibling rivalry

22.01.2022 How you do your yoga is how you do your life . When the mind is aggressive in a pose and we’re pushing, the body resists. . When we lean into our intention of ahimsa, the mind is more accepting, the body softens and the pose opens up more naturally ... . In what ways are you pushing and striving to make things happen off the mat? Can you be more accepting of the situation as it is and invite more ease . . . . See more

22.01.2022 Set your sankalpa to practise ahimsa . Feel into the body gently in each pose and meet it where it is in this moment. Embrace an unconditional acceptance of the body . .... . . See more

21.01.2022 Baby spam alert! 6 months with this little monkey @ Gordon Park

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19.01.2022 a n a h a t a s a n a . h e a r t m e l t i n g p o s e . As you inhale dip down into that inner well of love and compassion. As you exhale send it outwards and bombard the world with your love ... . As yogis, that’s our goal. We can serve the world with love to reach enlightenment or if we reach enlightened can’t help but serve the world with love . . . . See more

18.01.2022 ‘The body keeps the score’ - Bessel van der Kolk . There’s 10x more information travelling from the body to the brain via the vagus nerve than there is from the brain to the body. .... Our body has an innate intelligence that’s really key in unlocking our highest potential . If this transmission of information is impeded by poor vagal tone our whole nervous system can become dis-regulated, often leading to chronic illness and mental health conditions. . The vagus nerve really is this superhighway between mind and body. The yogis called it Shushumna Nadi. They new intuitively of the importance of its function in our wellbeing and developed a comprehensive toolkit of practices designed to hack this part of our biology . . . . See more

18.01.2022 Mumma Life . . .

16.01.2022 a h i m s a . Bend your knees any amount in your forward folds. When in doubt, turn towards ahimsa and never inflict pain on the body . Use your discernment to know what is pain and what is discomfort and remember your intention to do no harm ... . . . See more

14.01.2022 Bath Toime . Merry Christmas everyone! After a roller coaster year, so happy to be spending Christmas with family

13.01.2022 ‘Let the breath run through the body like a river of compassion. Washing away confusion and misunderstanding. Releasing resentment’ - Stephanie Snyder @stephaniesnyderyoga . I’m using this beautiful instruction from one of my favourite teachers to really embody ahimsa in my asana practise this morning .... . . See more

13.01.2022 s u t r a I I . 3 5 . For one who is firmly established in ahimsa, no violence can occur . When you think of the last time you got really angry, what did it feel like in your body? Likely your heart rate increased, maybe you felt tight in the chest. A part of your brain called the amaygdala started releasing chemicals that made your blood pressure rise, your hands sweat and your face flush ... . We don’t tend to think of this as violence, but it is and can cause significant harm to ourselves and others. . This is one of the ways I’m practising ahimsa this month. Recognising all these subtle and insidious forms of violence that occur in my thoughts and leaning into my intention of loving kindness before the violent thought gains enough momentum to become an emotion See more

12.01.2022 n e u r o c e p t i o n . This is the unconscious process our nervous system uses to evaluate cues of danger or safety . It involves neural circuits that travel through the most primitive part of our brain. ... . These neural circuits are created from our past experiences and are the underlying mechanism at play when we’re ‘triggered’, Whether it’s on the mat or off the mat. . It could simply be that the person we’re engaging with isn’t using much facial expression or their tone of voice is flat. These are common environmental cues our nervous system reads as unsafe because these body changes reflect decreased blood flow to the facial muscles such as would occur in a fight or flight response in the other person . Because it’s an unconscious automatic response of our nervous system, it is not intentional and this is why we can have the best intentions to make a positive change but don’t follow through. Our nervous system is literally only concerned with keeping us alive and it trumps our executive functioning every time. . This is why we need to learn to better regulate our nervous system. Not so that we never get triggered but so that we are better able to self sooth and co-regulate with others with safe and social cues. . Building a more resilient nervous system means we become aware of our bodies neuroception of danger cues by observing the changes in our physiology, so that we can consciously use our breath or co-regulate with others to start climbing the Polyvagal ladder to teach that sattvic state once again . . . . See more

11.01.2022 Healing old wounds is a practise of ahimsa, as we free ourselves and others from the repetitive harm of our survival patterns . When we experience any kind of trauma, our nervous system creates survival patterns designed to keep us safe . Any areas of your life you feel stuck, your survival patterns are likely at play from your career and finances to romantic relationships. While this is super important when we’re faced with imminent danger, the reality is that the emo...tional triggers we experience day to day are not life threatening. So our survival patterns in this way end up causing more harm than good . . . . . See more

11.01.2022 May all beings everywhere be peaceful, happy and free . Sending this positive intention out into the universe this morning to neutralise all the fearful vibes circulating around the coronavirus . .... . . See more

09.01.2022 Practising ahimsa starts with practising non-violent thoughts . It’s these subtle forms of violence which cause the most harm because they’re often insidious and buried deep within our subconscious . Without a daily practise of mindfulness, we don’t create enough space behind them to witness them as separate from who we are. These harmful thoughts then spread like weeds until they drown out everything else ... . Thoughts that contain seeds of jealousy, greed, scarcity, guilt and shame all live in my subconscious. . With my intention to practise ahimsa today I will notice them arise and gently wash them away, down the river of compassion that courses through my energy body . Then I will choose again, a new high vibe thought infused with the energy of ahimsa and let that pranic vibration flow through each and every Nadi, to reach every tissue and tiny cell of my body until there is a convergence, where I am that . . . . See more

05.01.2022 This is my overarching intention for 2020 . I’m bringing the yamas back into my daily practise this year and peeling back hopefully a few more layers of the old onion . I’ve realised that each time I revisit these practises, they are different. I get something more out of it because I am different and the world is also different ... . This is a lifelong practise and I remind myself that it’s not about achieving some perfect yogi ideal but about making small incremental positive changes . The twist is that these positive changes towards becoming more wholesome are really just the tools we use to peel back the layers of stuff we’ve accumulated in all the Koshas throughout our life that are blocking out the light that dwells within. The light has has always been and will always be perfectly whole and unchangable . . . . See more

04.01.2022 My Hawaiian babe

03.01.2022 From my new favourite card deck ‘a yogic path’ by @iamsahararose . . .

02.01.2022 Yoga is a lifelong practise of unravelling the layers of our conditioned self to reveal our true limitless self . There is no dogma involved. You take the teachings and apply them to your life as they fit for you at your current life situation, knowing that this is likely to change and evolve over time . In this way the yamas and niyamas are not like the 10 commandments, but instead they offer a roadmap of how we can live in alignment with source ... . When we live by these teachings our thoughts, words and actions which are all energetic vibrations are aligned with the vibrational frequency of love, kindness and compassion, the vibrational frequency of the universe. . Perhaps this is what Jesus intendant by the 10 commandments and hell is just a metaphor for the suffering we encounter when we are out of alignment . . . . See more

02.01.2022 There is an unlimited number of ways we can practise ahimsa throughout our day . Where you choose to spend your money is one way that can either violate or support your practise of ahimsa . Are the foods you buy sustainably sourced, what about your clothes? ... . The comfort and ease of convenience is an easy trap that I’m totally guilty of. Buying packaged meals from the supermarket, throwing away the seemingly never ending stream of plastic it’s wrapped in and then going online and buying another piece of throw away fashion from an online retailer in which I have no idea about their manufacturing protocols . It’s so easy to fall into an unconscious abyss and just move through the day with all the creature comforts and conveniences we’re use to. But when we’re conscious of the harm our choices make to other beings and the environment this just causes us to drift further and further out of alignment with source . This is how the yamas are the foundation of our yoga practice. Without this crucial limb the way we interface with world may be low vibe. To really live our yoga and raise our vibration we need our actions to be guided by ahimsa . . . . See more

02.01.2022 y a m a s . The yamas are the firm foundation of our practise . Yamas is the 1st of 8 limbs of yoga practise. It’s translated as ‘restraint’ and outlines the ways in which we as yogis must interface with the world in order to facilitate the path of yoga ... . They are restraints because they involve a degree of holding back our own selfish or personal desires in service of a greater good . In the yoga sutras there are many lists and the order on these lists is said to be of importance with the items on the top being of highest importance . So the yamas as the first limb of yoga are a really important part of yoga practise and form the firm foundation of our practise . . . . See more