Practice Makes Perfect

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Hi, Yogis!!❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

I had a stellar day! It’s amazing how going to bed early and waking early with a routine and intention can cure energy zaps! I typically wake at 4:30 am and get my bathroom habits done quickly so I can get on my mat and perform reiki before my 30 min yoga flow. I have been craving a nature meditation daily, so outside I go. I’m in front of my computer for work at 7:30 am. I seriously love my morning routine!

I love to greet and witness the light you bring🌄

I have never felt so alive in my skin. What is it you ask? Well, I’m asleep by 9:30 pm and awake at 4:30 am bright eyed and bushy tailed. I wake with intention for my yoga practice, my reiki practice, my meditation practice.  These are my why. I KNOW these work for me. 

My morning sunrise walks are my time to reflect without paper. My best ideas are on walks or on my mat❤

I started my Ayurveda classes last year. I learned these habits via Kate Stillman and her book “Body Thrive”. I highly, highly suggest this book! I managed to luxuriate myself with my bedtime routine. I love bubbly, steamy baths, filled with reading by candlelight or YouTube. What can I say? Balance.💜 I use rose Epsom salt, Lavender bath bubbles, my own created body oils, dry brushing. All the beauty. Does it have to be this extravagant? No.  I like my bedtime routine and it fits my life. You’ll figure out yours in your time and it’ll be beautiful for you!

My morning routine is so nourishing.

I finally, yes, a year later, created my morning routine! It’s perfect for me now. I awake at 4:30 am and do yoga & reiki. I will drive or walk to nature and meditate. It’s really working on me! I feel the pull of this natural attraction. This feels so familiar and reminds me of my early mornings as a kid spending time in the woods exploring. It keeps pulling me back!

I am so proud of how far I came. I had no life in me. I was a robot going through the day to day routine. Years flew by. I am glad to be where I am. My mind is clear and I am focused on my future. I am up for a promotion at work and my business is thriving. I have vacations planned. I am keeping to my work schedule so I don’t find myself working extra late most days. I find strict boundaries keep me from burn out. I have to take care of me and listen to my intuition. If we listen to our intuition, we will breeze through life trouble free. I like that. ❤

Get curious about how you are gliding through life. Small changes create big ripples and people will notice your new energy. It’s quite magnificent and anyone can do it.

Namastè 🙏🏽

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.

Self Care is Love ❤️

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Hi, my yogi friend!

My best days are the days full of attending to my needs. I know. Why a full day? Have you ever needed a moment? Some time to wind down and process your wins of the week? I think even an hour is time well invested. I’ll take you on my typical day of healing for inspiration only purposes.

I love to heal my body using any modality necessary💝 even if it’s 11 needles to the crown.

I will awake and spend time in bed stretching and gathering my morning plans in my head to get me prepared. Lately, I’ve been getting ready for a long nature meditation at the lake where I will journal and use my tarot cards. I enjoy my alone time to get my headspace right and get ready for work or my day depending on the day. I am working  up to 5 min of stillness. I truly enjoy this practice and it heals my soul. Deep healing.

I am amazed every night and morning I can witness the beauty of the moon. This smiling moon is amazing😍

I will get home in time to get changed for work and get my breakfast ready which is usually oatmeal and peaches or Raisin bran with plant milk. I’m usually starving by this moment which is the summer digestion, all fiery unlike any other season. My kapha slow digestion is a thing of the past in these fast moving days of summer. I appreciate a powerful digestion.

Balance😆

Lunchtime can be crazy. I sometimes have appointments, meetings, all the things at noon. I’m also supposed to eat something that will sustain my high energy levels and keep me from making too many bad decisions. I try to get in a yoga session or at least eat my meal with intention and know I’m ingesting beneficial medicine for my beautiful body.

When in doubt chop it all up and mix with citrus juice, salt and pepper. It’s summer salad season!

By the time I’m done with work my body is ready for movement. I mean a juicy, fluidity, bendy yoga with lots of Pranayama. Yummmm! I am trying to get into a habit of moving atleast 30 min in the morning. I’ll either move to what feels good to my body or practice to a video. I also have 4 yoga classes Monday- Thursday at 5:30 pm and Friday at 5:30 am.

Uttanasana- forward fold. A delicious back stretch❤

I am craving my Ayurveda basics of earlier, lighter dinner. My plan is to eat before yoga but I won’t fret too much about it. I’m sure to eat dinner before the sun goes down. I also am mindful on what foods do good to my body versus bad. I know my body doesn’t like dairy. It’s loud with gas and I can be constipated after. I have to weigh the benefits. I typically like a smooth operation.

Spicy beef birria nachos which utilized all 6 tastes of Ayurveda.

My most prized ritual is my nighttime love fest. No, not that. Lol! I typically begin at 8 and will bathe or shower and moisturize with my homemade herbal oils and crawl into bed for reading, learning, getting tomorrow planned and I get to cuddle with my husband and discuss our day. I will make sure my facial skin is properly pampered for. I’ve been so diligent and creating new facial oils and body creams. I love creating these decadent creams. So luxurious!

My yarrow six week infused oil will make a great body cream🥰 I’ll also keep it around to stop bleeding.

My most prized self care ritual is journaling. I get to reflect on my day and digest it fully. I can list my gratitudes and see how many days in a row I can journal. I’m on a two week roll and it’s great to be so intune with myself. I try not to take any moment for granted. I’m here to learn and take away the lessons to apply in my life. In my circumstances. The growing process is forever changing for me. I’m learning what it takes to feel my best and this routine is so, so, so good for me. Establish yours and be gentle with yourself. Kaison. Small steps.

Me and my journal witness the best sunrises🥺

Namastè🙏🏽

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.

Yogi Dreams Can Come True

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Hello, my yogi friends!

I am so ready for fall. This weather has been a nice transition from the crazy heat of summer! I’ve been withering from my once love of heated yoga. I’m stuck in a place of loving slower, twisty, yin based yoga. Basically, holding a pose for 5 breathes up to 2 min. My back can get tight, so standing forward bend or Uttanasana is my bestie. I’ll grab opposite elbows and sway away. This is so delicious! Try it🧘🏽‍♀️

Eagle pose in 95° F humidity filled room😍 photo credit: Yellow Brick Yoga

Yoga brought me back to myself. I used to not enjoy being alone.  I couldn’t stand it. I would be forced to look at myself and all the ugly and sadness and longing for a new beginning. It took decades of being lost. Doing me in a way I was unfamiliar. Good thing my underlying persistence paid off!

When the sun goes down I get ready to go to bed.

I’ve decided to learn yoga as a teacher. I’m super excited for this and the future. It’s like making the decision is the hardest part until you begin. I’m going all in. I’m getting Reiki attuned today and this will be another skillset to offer. The future doesn’t always have to be unknown. It can be what we make it. Nothing is set in stone until it happens. Make your dreams come true!

I feel so nourished!

My life is not how I saw it even a year ago. I’ve put in so much work. I’ve made decisions I never thought I’d be making. This is a huge overcoming for me. I am blessed! If I can do this you can do your goals.

I’m just sharing that my yoga career is just beginning. I’ve found a safe place to be and to grow. I hope you find value in my sharing. Now let’s get to work!!

Namastè🙏🏽

Most pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.

Transformation Proclamation

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Hi, friends!

I have been healing and enjoying my transformation these past few weeks.  This journey is out of this world and I’m so excited to share my life in all its exquisite light. I know I’m beginning my spiritual awakening and I’ve never, ever felt so free in my whole life. I’m literally glistening in my body, mind, and spirit.

My daily meditation is crucial to my healing.

What is a spiritual awakening? From my research, it’s an episode that happens in your life (usually, tramatic, at least for me) that sparks a deep, inner awakening. I have been experiencing this for over a year and I didn’t know what I was witnessing until I went down a rabbit hole and me being me, I am embracing it all. I find myself right at home in nature. Something very familiar indeed. I crave it.

Stop. Drop. Yoga meditation 🧘🏽‍♀️

I have so much peace in my life and this privilege allows me the ability and space to enjoy this journey. I am safe and able to freely begin peeling off the decades layers of ego and disassociate myself from others opinions. I just want me. Raw. I often ask myself who would I be if I were dropped off in a field with nothing nearby. What would my super powers be? How would I sustain myself? I will always be. I know I am strong and capable of healing. Such power in knowledge, right?

I get to witness this most mornings!🥰

So, I am not working alone. I have a therapist, sponsor, yoga teachers, Ayurveda teacher, & multiple strong friends to accompany me on this journey. I’m working through some very, very old traumas and as I do, it gets easier to talk about and work through. That in turn, makes all aspects of my life easier. I can tell I’m opening my heart. Not just in feelings but even in yoga. My flipped dog is pretty open and fierce, if you ask me. All power! This is new and lovely.

I will bring my blanket and a book to any park at anytime to get my much needed nature time.

There has been a lot déjà vu as well. I will have people repeat things from my head (dreams?) or multiple people will tell me the exact, verbatim words🥺 I thought I wasn’t dreaming, so I told my acupuncturist and she went to work with needles in my head and by the next morning, I remembered past dreams. I was trying to tell my husband but as I spoke they were disappearing from my memory. I stopped talking so I could gather the quickly dissipating memories but it was too late. Oh well, atleast I got confirmation I am dreaming.

Looks worse than it feels🥰

I’ve also been feeling my sensory organs are heightened. Some people appear brighter than others and they can also appear louder. I’m not sure why yet as I’m still in the discovery phase and this just started happening this weekend. 😳 My daughter has a lot of energy and when she got excited today it felt like a surge of my personal energy was zapped. I had to let her know that was a lot and I couldn’t handle another. Another what? I don’t know but my senses were on high alert to not be robbed again!

I love being on the lake😍

My new life. This is creating a strong, loving, dedicated, instinctual, headstrong, balanced, committed human being. I’m am learning so much about myself in this process. I’m slowly getting back into my Ayurveda balanced meals and I’ll share those soon! Take the time to create your beautiful rituals. Keep yourself in a loving light and be kind, not just to others. Be kind to you too. I hope this sparks an interest. Or maybe you relate and you’re on your own journey and didn’t even know, like me!😅

Namaste🧘🏽‍♀️

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.

A newer beginning…

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Hello my yogi friend,

It has been a minute as I’ve been attempting to heal my weary mind, body, and soul. I feel a new awakening beginning and my curiosity is unwavering. Curiosity of the unknown is interesting, like being on your mat and going into a new pose or old pose and testing the new feeling in your body and mind. Is it scary? Can you explore more? What feelings come up? I feel so adventurous and playful lately. I’m relearning who I am. It’s been awhile since I truly, truly checked into my needs. I’ve been doing a lot of moving but cannot forget the quiet reflection time. It’s just as important as everything else.

A peaceful day alone and thriving🥰

As I begin to push forward on my daily yoga practice I am very mindful of my breath and meditation practice. If you don’t use it, you lose it. Breathing deeply and fully grounds my soul. I feel like I’m breathing from the earth. The earth under my feet. I’m so cognizant of the vibrations of sound and the breathe of the wind. I feel the air of the birds songs envelop me and hold me.  I love my practice, it’s not a daily practice but a very crucial piece to my healing.

Take notes to all things in nature, it knows what to do to heal.

I’ve been going to a beginner Iyengar class on Thursdays and I’ve been working on correcting my poses. We worked on my jump backs and jump forwards in chaturanga which I struggle with. I appreciate the technique hacks to get me going on building necessary strength.

My yoga teacher told me my elbows don’t point back in chaturanga so I have to manipulate my hands more to the edge of my mat with an emphasis on a safe wrist twist to point my elbows back. This is hard! Lol! I guess a work in progress!

I’m loving my time of exploration. I’m finding who I am on my mat. My strengths, my weaknesses, where do I not trust myself? Why? I learn. I love me and I trust me so I jumped. I jumped away from my old truths. I’m pretty far now. This is new terrain and I’m not scared! Don’t be afraid to peel away from your ego. That ego told you you could never be here. Never be happy. To not trust yourself but, baby girl/ baby boy, you got this. WE GOT THIS!!🙌🏽

I love to stop, drop, and journal some mornings💖

Reflection

I am getting used to seeing her look back at me.

There’s no more anger. The light in her eyes changed.

I can see the world’s past in her eye reflection. Now she can be free.

I can take it from here.

Original poem: Lenapè Spiritual Yogi Awakened.

Have a great week!

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.

Rain Dancer

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Happy Monday friends!

I love weekends! I feel that the more self-centered I am, self-focused, the most healing happens. I am literally still vibrating over my beautiful weekend. I had a great Saturday morning at the farmers market and I’m so grateful the rain held off. Since there’s been so much rain lately in my area, I had been hiding inside but during a particular rainstorm last week, I was driving and pondering about how to enjoy my new gloomy, wet environment and at that moment at the stop sign I saw 2 girls kicking at the street rivers gliding towards the storm drains and they started dancing. Wow! I’m going to learn how to dance in the rain again!

Squishy muddy clovers.

I love how situations play out right in front of you and it’s only if you’re paying attention and asking the right questions that you get your answers in real life. Seek and you will find…. literal chills. So, you see two kids dancing in the rain. What do you think? I guess it depends on what situation you came from. Did you just hang out with a friend you haven’t talked to in a while, and it made you think of your childhood memories? Did you just get in an argument with your family, and you don’t even notice the kids dancing and splashing?

My dogs didn’t even notice this frog, so it lived.

I find myself so curious into this new ability to enjoy myself in any weather. I can weather any storm. So, on Sunday I craved to dig in the dirt but guess what…yup, rain. LOL! It was a mist, so I grabbed my basket and decided to take cover under my maple tree and pick white clover flowers. This was so rewarding in the sense of me literally grounding my whole body to the earth but knowing I am collecting medicine to keep me sane through this wet Spring and into the hot summer days.

My new grounding therapy.

I also did get a chance to play in the garden and pull weeds and plant my herbs and tomato plants. I cannot wait to harvest my summer tomatoes. Right now, my kale and lettuce are great to harvest, and we’ve been enjoying all the salads. I also planted daikon, turnips, and radishes. Yum! I decided to take all the daikon, turnip and radish greens and cooked them down with bacon, onions, and garlic with a splash of cream and boy were they delicious!

My Spring garden treasures.

My yoga practice is going to be more consistent because I rejoined my favorite calorie torcher hot yoga class. I am ecstatic because it starts this morning and I’m probably going to die and take forever to come back to my body. Why would I do this to myself, you ask? Well, I enjoy the heat and how limber I become. I enjoy the sweat and I know it’s clearing out toxins and it seriously glows up my skin. We hold our poses so long our minds are telling us to get out of the pose, but we focus on breathing and keeping our Drishti focused. I love this class!

I hope you had good medicine from your weekend healing. Or maybe you work weekends, but I really hope you find the messages hiding in everyday life. I found that learning to cope with uncontrolled circumstances and finding a way to be ok with things I cannot change to be powerful. I do not like the rain only because it hinders me from the sun and being able to dig, take a walk with the dogs. I am learning to find ways to enjoy the rain and be in it, so far, my list consists of picking white clovers and dancing 🙂

Namaste!

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.

Kapha, Kapha, Kapha

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Hello friends!

I have been struggling! This weather has been chilly, rainy, gloomy and I’m feeling it in my soul. Yes, I do agree one day of hearing rain hit the swollen puddles, the overcast sky void of sunrays is inviting to stay inside and pull out a good book. I can only take so many days of gray hibernation. My bones are sad.

Exiting home and exploring is my sanity.

After many months of exploring and getting to know myself, I find that doing the opposite of my dosha, Kapha, I will be balanced and able to stay active and happy.

Rain, rain, go away…. but thank you for nourishing my beautiful plants.

First, I find being by myself exhausting because I am a needy, easily distracted person. I need other people around me and working from home kind of misses that attraction. I will get out of the house and see my friends. Even if for a few hours of chatting over tea or going to lunch. I need to vent or listen to my friends vent, I love human interaction and feeling my serotonin release 🙂 I’m telling you there is nothing like feeling the love you have for someone and knowing they feel the same and makes you attentive to the care you put in those relationships.

High tea with my bestie!

I do love being outside and find myself working on my back deck most afternoons enjoying the sun’s rays. I love to sit and meditate surrounded by the sounds of the bird joyous songs. I just adore the wind blowing its energized currents through my hair and enveloping my body with Earth’s pranayama. I feel so loved and cared for by the beauty of life available for free. This my friends, is true oxytocin release. Explore your nearest tree and sit, total game changer.

She was bragging, hanging in the sun rays while I worked last year.

This is weird to write and even worse to know that I enjoy it, but I explore my hunger. So, when Kapha is high outside, like right now because it’s spring (think cool, wet, damp, ew) I tend to want to explore hunger. I will typically skip breakfast unless my stomach noises are hurting me. They usually don’t on these days, so I’ll eat my lunch at noon – 1pm. It’s really not that bad as it sounds. I do listen to my body and have so much respect for it, I’ll test its limits though. But, at lunch time I will make it a taste sensation. I utilize all six tastes: sour, sweet, pungent, astringent, salty, bitter. I look forward to my lunch and when it contains all 6 tastes you will feel satisfied and an added bonus of dopamine.

The quickest way for me to get all my nutrients is to wrap it up and dip it.

One of my last Kapha balancing techniques is yoga. Yes, my favorite self-healing practice. So typically, the last thing I want to do in this sad weather is move and groove. What I want is not what I need. So, I will get out of my head and get onto my mat. I need a challenge and challenge I will get. I yoga stretch, twist, chaturanga, bend my way into endorphin euphoria. I find myself always getting better in positions and strength which brings me such a release of endorphins that keep me going into the next pose.

My daily grounding practice.

These are my most healing practices to help boost my brain chemicals and keep me sane. It’s been raining constantly for 3 days, and I do not feel like being mean to people or feel like staying in bed and pouting. I am feeling useful, healthy, and balanced. I would suggest you explore your world and use it as medicine to heal. We have exactly what we need, right where we are, the first step is exploration and curiosity. I’m so blessed to be here in a safe place and with the best headspace during these rainy days. Stay blessed, friends!

Me and my buddy explore.

Namaste!

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.

Abhyanga (Self Massage)

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Happy Wednesday!!

Whoa! Two posts in a row? Who is she? Well, I have a lot to share since my three-week hiatus! I rediscovered self-massage and let me tell you that there is nothing like it! Get you some body oil, lotion, coconut oil (yes, that one in the kitchen will work!), and let’s get this thousands of years old practice to work!

So, I made my own dandelion salve and had my masseuse use her magic fingers and hands to work this into my sore neck and legs and it was dramatically life changing. I decided to practice abhyanga or self-massage to tend to my sore muscles at home every night…. well, most nights.

I like to make me a hot tea and sit on a towel and rub away. I pay close attention to every inch of body. I feel like my endorphins are exploding with sheer pleasure when I practice my abhyanga. Especially when I’m sore. Plus, there are benefits of detoxification and preventing premature aging. My hand is raised, please sign me up!

I would love to try this before bathing so I can let the oil sit on my skin and penetrate the layers with detoxifying benefits of whatever herbs I decide to infuse. I’m thinking a lavender rose vanilla infusion with sunflower oil, jojoba, and coconut oil for its cooling benefits. I love, love, love floral scents with deep vanilla scents. I can’t wait to begin my infusion and it’ll be just in time for summer. I need to research more how this oil situation will be going down my drain. If it’s a no go I’ll just continue with my after shower/bath rub down. No biggie!

I like to concentrate on my head. I will use some vitamin E or jojoba oil and just a few drops and massage in with my fingers all over my scalp. I pay attention to my Marma points and stay firm with my movements. Next, I move onto my neck and shoulders then arms…you get the point. Think long up and down strokes on your bones and circles in both directions on your joints. I also “C” clamp my hands on my forearm and move in half circles back and forth up and down. I hope my night routine continues to support my self massage. I’m really feeling grounded and clear headed with my routine.

I hope this sparks some idea to begin your research on abhyanga. I truly appreciate my body and all it does for me. I want to treat it with all the respect and give my body the healing movements and treatments it needs to recharge. It gets me ready for bed which gives my body the rest it needs to begin another day. Please do not let not having organic, unrefined, cold pressed oil stop you from trying this today/tonight. Just get what you have on hand and explore. This is good medicine and I highly recommend.

Namaste!

Healing Thyself

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Happy Tuesday Friends!

I have been on a journey of self-healing and found myself needing significant attention and deep quiet time. I do appreciate the mundane tasks of everyday life I also crave quiet time to reflect and digest my experiences. This has been such an odd time for me. I like to go, go, go and see people and be ever so cheerful but after peeling off my top layer I found I needed some more work to build up my other layers. This is where a dose of meditation and yoga steps in.

Mr. Baby likes yoga with me.

I am a curious being. I have been exploring headstands and back bends. I’m not sure which instance it was but, in my headstand, I would engage my arms and shoulders more in my asana and may have strained a neck muscle. While in my back bend I might have pushed myself too far by straining into my shoulders in a jarring maneuver that may have injured my shoulder. I may have hurt a tendon in my arm when I pushed myself up from a sitting position on the couch which I heard my left shoulder pop. Whatever it was I hurt and stopped doing yoga for a week. I was literally a walking nothing. I didn’t feel connected to anything, and it was really sad.

Gardening is my healing therapy.

I have been busy with my day job and my weekend job and planning has been even more time consuming for me. I found myself planning over and over to be busy but no time to reflect, so talk about information overload! I’m very grateful for the knowledge of myself to know when it’s time to step away. I needed to re-ground myself before I created a new problem. I sat for a few days meditating 20 min each morning and listened to nothing. I heard everything from my quiet room, my quiet experience began to round my sharp corners and blurry images became clear. I was becoming clearer and what I needed was staring me in my face. I needed yoga and meditation more than ever.

I try and sage myself every morning. Frugal tip: If you grab one leaf from the bunch and use that a few times to sage, your bundle will last forever!

I began slowly to get back into yoga. I decided one morning I was over failure and ready to get back to my yoga basics. I pulled up YouTube and did a 20-minute yoga practice. I was alive! Every chaturanga gave me newfound energy and the twists excited my organs. I was pulling and receiving life in every pose. Ok, I’m not broken. I decided to do a 40-minute yoga session the next morning. Whoa! My shoulder, my neck…. nothing hurt. Am I back?

One of my favorite powerful asanas, Warrior II.

I feel connected. I feel playful and ready to explore more. Maybe I was bored? I do like change and love to be challenged. I do love my local yoga studio, but I need more challenges in my asanas to force myself to face who I am and who I want to be. Yes, life offers these as well, but I feel safer on my mat than ever before. I feel it’s my guide and homebase. I am signing up for Iyengar yoga. This yoga focuses on precision and alignment of your asana. If you’re correctly in the pose the likelihood of injury goes down, I hope.

I know I wanted to practice Ashtanga yoga but in time I’ll get there. I’m still in the primary phase and mostly working on sun salutations. There are a few movements that get me. I’m working on shooting back into plank quietly and chaturanga is helping me build up my shoulder strength again. If you don’t use it, you lose it. I don’t want to lose it again.

I guess the lesson this time around is for me to listen to my body. My mind has all these plans, and my body needs respect. I cannot expect to drag my body into these plans without sitting in silence and getting all parties aligned. If my body needs a rest day, then I will honor that with the best day off and lots of self-care and love. How can you go wrong with such a loving dynamic within yourself?

My favorite self-care days are facials 🙂 At home or at the med spa.

Please remember to take care of yourself. You and your body have a lifetime of uphill battles and to-do lists. Just sit and breathe. Answers will come and healing will begin. Enjoy the silence and invite in the breath of fresh air.

Namaste!

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.

Back to Yoga Basics…

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Hello friends!

I have been yoga absent. I feel that work changes have consumed a lot of my time these past two weeks. I’ve become unfocused in my real life but it’s ok. I didn’t find the time to do yoga and now I’m ready to get back in the swing of things. I absolutely love yoga! The benefits are so amazing as well and I’m craving the outcome.

It’s Monday and I woke up early at 6 am to the sound of the birds. Gyana Mudra and Ohhhhmmmm that shit! I love that! Got to get in my morning Ayurvedic routine. I found myself very energized after this amazing weekend. I drank 46 oz of water really fast to get hydrated and in retrospect I should’ve added lemon…speaking of lemon, I had my first farmers market experience this past weekend and it was so much more than I could have ever expected! I mean this in the sincerest way because I sold out! I love my hometown, for real.

I find that if I don’t stay grounded that I will float and whirl around like a leaf in the wind. The only thing that comes to mind to ground me is yoga. Yoga is a combination of movement and lubrication of your joints while connecting to your breath and ending with a deliciously long savasana. Doesn’t that sound like a great ending to your workday? Or even a beautiful beginning to your morning routine? Count me in!

So, knowing myself, I need to get into a home practice and work up to daily yoga practices. I’m looking forward to starting this tomorrow morning at 5:30am. I find Ashtanga yoga so fascinating that this is my morning focus. I think I can do this, in fact, I know I can because I really want to practice. I also love learning, and this will be a feat of my head and my thoughts limiting what I can actually do. I guess a lot of inner fight. I’m so game! I’ll be like Bruce Lee mind strong. #goals

I did my evening Monday yoga class, and it was exactly what I needed. We did a lot of forward folds in different forms, and it released my neck and shoulders to gravity. My neck and shoulders have been heavy and sore from gardening and hauling around heavy bags. I had a massage, and she used my dandelion salve I created with my dandelions in the backyard. It really took the pain away! She works wonders but also, I think my salve helped. 🙂

I’m enjoying sitting on my back deck as the sun goes down. It’s peaceful and south wind breeze is so inviting blowing through the trees. The waxing gibbous moon is beaming down on top of me. The birds are beginning to quiet, and I think this is the best place to do a meditation. I can’t ever lose an opportunity. I hope you had a great Monday and plan to explore your boundaries and learn all things “you”. I really feel that I’m going back to basics…yoga basics.

Namaste!

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.