The Yama & Niyama – Satya
The teachings of yoga have ethical principles that help guide us to a more comfortable way of living. Ethical principles need not be strict rules by which we judge the actions of others or something that divides us into “good” vs. “evil”. This guide provides a helpful method to break up the human experience and [...]
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The Yama & Niyama – Ahimsa
The teachings of yoga have ethical principles that help guide us to a more comfortable way of living. Ethical principles need not be strict rules by which we judge the actions of others or something that divides us into “good” vs. “evil”. This guide provides a helpful method to break up the human experience and [...]
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Predatory language and how people unknowingly reinforce its power.
Predators use language to battle the morale of their victims and society unknowingly reinforces these feelings of battered self worth. Predators intentionally use words that attack the self esteem of the victim and send the victim into a spiral of self doubt. Often the victim is left wondering what they did to deserve this or [...]
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Releasing Fear
I have been body shamed my whole life. When I was young, I was the bendy kid. I bent my body into all kinds of unusual shapes. And in doing so, I explored my body and its limits, which felt good. My body felt better if I kept it moving and "stretching". Thus, it was no [...]
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I am sorry!
This weekend I took a workshop with the lovely and very knowledgeable Jules Mitchell. It was a lot to take in and I will be processing for a while. It challenged everything that I have been taught about the human body including my massage training! I would like to officially apologize for any mis-information that [...]
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Wise words from a 14 year old yoga teacher
Happiness Happiness is not something you can simply achieve. You can’t go to an ashram and magically wake up enlightened with the key to happiness. It is not something you can take a pill for. I take a pill all my problems go away, I am happy now. No. It is not something that you [...]
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Wrap your seeds in love
Thich Nhat Hahn writes about us having seeds inside. These seeds can be of many kinds, ancestral, cultural, experience… many of which we have no control over, we did not plant many of these seeds ourselves. When I first pondered the fact that I can choose which seeds to water I thought that was profound [...]
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I am not perfect!
Hi, I am shelly. Who am I and why am I here? Well ain’t that the question everyone is trying to answer. When I figure it out I’ll let you know! I am a complicated person who suffers from “imposter syndrome”. This is an issue that developed from trauma. More on that in a bit. [...]
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Grounding to flow through the holiday season
December in the studio will be grounding month to help support you through the chaos of the holiday season. 🐝The studio will be red. Red light therapy is said to reduce inflammation. With all those holiday eats who doesn't need less inflammation?! 🐝Classes will be candlelight with overhead lights off to increase a warming, grounding [...]
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Chasing, chasing, chasing….
This is Faolon, her recent experience got me thinking about chasing in our own lives. A little background, Faolon has been chasing a critter for weeks. The critter kept hiding under the shed. Eventually Faolon became so intent on chasing this critter she forgot to be mindful of her current situation.... She dug after the [...]
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