Practice Makes Perfect

August 31, 2022December 12, 2022 / Self-Diagnosed Yogi / Leave a comment

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!

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 ❤️

August 28, 2022December 12, 2022 / Self-Diagnosed Yogi / Leave a comment

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.

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.

Transformation Proclamation

August 21, 2022December 12, 2022 / Self-Diagnosed Yogi / Leave a comment

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.

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?

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.

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!

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…

August 9, 2022December 28, 2022 / Self-Diagnosed Yogi / Leave a comment

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.

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.

Life Asanas

May 7, 2022December 12, 2022 / Self-Diagnosed Yogi / Leave a comment

Hello my yogi friends!

This was created 5/7/22 but in my pending file😅 I’m not 100% sure where I was going with this. Maybe a week in the life? Enjoy❤️

Tuesday was the day I began my new morning yoga practice and practice I did! Post meditation. I started with exploring slowly sun salutations. I connected fully and held the positions for 5 breaths. I pushed myself to all edges even beginning in mountain pose (standing pose). I spread each toe and meticulously placed them down in perfect formation. I could feel each ridge in my foot and felt completely grounded and ready to begin my practice.

I allowed myself time to practice shoulder stands, plow, headstands, crow pose. I’m definitely loving the time I take to explore each pose. I do find if I record myself, I have something to help guide me into the correct alignment if I’m doubting myself or at least away from hurting myself. Safety is number one always. Especially when you are by yourself.

Idk about you but I always love to make time for a long savasana. I do love to meditate either guided or silent but it’s such a great intunement time. I appreciate lots of opportunities to meditate, especially in the morning. I am blessed to enjoy a free symphony of birds in my backyard. They serenade me while eating their seeds.

It’s Wednesday and I didn’t do a morning yoga session. I instead walked my dogs by the river and let them frolic in the tall grass. They literally had smiles the whole time. They really love being dogs. I was going to get my paddle board out and float at the lake with my dogs but I had some things around the house I needed to get accomplished and there will be a whole season devoted to such days 🙂

I found myself studying my herbalism lessons and organizing my kitchen. There were lots of little tasks to complete and I’m proud to announce they were all completed. This was definitely an accomplished day for me, and I was able to stay grounded and focused on my goals.

It’s crazy how fast Thursday showed up, but it was another day of no yoga. I’m kind of lost on how to begin my journey into Ashtanga. I have a book, “The Power of Ashtanga Yoga” by Kino MacGregor, that I love but I need to reread it to get me motivated on how to start. I can also pull up a practice on YouTube. A full Ashtanga session is 90 min of amazing breath practice and amazing human forms. So beautiful!

After dinner, I had to work on my weekend farmers market plan and measurements on how much to prepare. I’m also exploring ways to utilize my lemon and limes after I squeeze them besides composting them. I feel like it’s a waste to just compost them when they have such good medicine left. I can’t wait to see how this turns out!

Fun in the sun 🙂

My last day of the typical work week, Friday, is among us. I had to wake up early and begin juicing my lemons. I decided to soak my lemons in vinegar to create an amazing kitchen/bathroom spray. I love the benefits of vinegar which disinfect and clean with no streaks and then to combine with my used lemon carcasses and added extra scent and antimicrobial benefits with thyme and rosemary. I literally cannot wait! I juiced 20 lbs of lemons this morning. Winning!

Namastè 🙏🏽

All pictures by Lenape Spiritual Yogi Awakened.