Freedom to trust.

Anchor

The foundation of any posture is your anchor into practice. We first anchor into the space with awareness, then an intention is set. When the mind wanders, we gently bring awareness back to the intention. This rewires your mind to virtue, the unwavering truth within, rather than the habitual reels that typically play through the mind when you are doing something challenging.

Calm Nervous System

Our waking state reflects through our sleep state. The way we approach the world during the day continues into our sleep state. Infinite thoughts of love, compassion, equanimity, and joy in the waking state reflect in our sleep state. Our worldview during the day is also our worldview when we sleep. Calm the nervous system during the day, and the nervous system calms in sleep. This is not woo-woo, this is Science, The Law of Cause and Effect.

Ground Your Energy.

I want you to think of the nervous system as guitar strings, and you are the guitar. When you experience something that moves your subtle energy body (the guitar strings), it’s like moving the strings on the guitar; each string plays off of the previous string. The thought picture we see when the strings move form the bones in our body. We connect to infinite love, compassion, equanimity, and joy to take both our power back and our sleep.

Today, I invite you to observe the earth beneath your feet, notice how you are effortlessly supported by the earth. You do not have to do anything.

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Mindfulness

In Sanskrit, mind translates to mana, inherent tendencies, desire, or drive. The mind is the fertile soil of your thoughts. By acknowledging the thought as your own, the thought becomes a cycle in your reality. Believe in yourself and what you are doing.

Movement

In Sanskrit, the movement of the mind translates to Chitta. We detoxify Chitta through awareness. Awareness of the starting point and resolution. How does the cycle play out? How would you do things differently if you could? What is the paradoxical solution to end the cycle once and for all? Work it out on your mat and in day-to-day interactions.

Stop Chaos

In yoga, we aim to let go of the mind movement to end the cycles of suffering. Everything is coming from you. I want you to think of each Chakra point as a Manager Mind. Yoga classes are designed to bring awareness to the whole body, which is projecting from the mind. How are you understanding yourself through reading this newsletter? What are the thoughts? Observe them. Each chakra point holds a unique set of energetic principles that govern the state of mind.

Root (base of spine) - security, stability.
Sacral (stomach under belly button) - creativity, sexuality, pleasure, and emotions.
Solar Plexus (above naval) - personal power, willpower, self-esteem, and confidence.
Heart (strenum) - love, compassion, empathy, emotional connection.
Throat (hyoid bone) - communication, self-expression, authenticity.
Third Eye (in between eyebrows) - in tuition, insight, wisdom.
Crown (top of your head) - higher consciousness, spirituality, and universal energy.

Observe where your thought is coming from and the sensation in your body, rather than attaching to the thing. If your mind wanders, gently bring awareness back to your breath.

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