Posts tagged mindfulness
Enlightened AF Podcast: Pilot Episode!

Join Amy and Whitney to discuss all things modern yoga - plus life off the mat for this first ever episode.

This episode contains:

Part I:

  • Hello!

  • 8 Limbs of Yoga

  • Bikram Yoga, yea or nay?


    Part II:

  • Veronica

  • Citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ

  • Lotus Temple

  • Yoga Ethics

    Part III:

  • Sobriety

  • Social Media

  • Almond Milk

  • Sadhana Check-in

Shared exclusively with Four Paths Yoga members one week prior to public release, on a monthly basis.

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Preview: Alone

While it’s hard to say anyone is an expert, I think I know something about being alone.

As a child, I would retreat to my room and sit in the same place on my bedroom floor and find silence.

It wasn’t until many years later that I realized I was meditating, and can recall a number of profound experiences that came so naturally, despite never having named them.

No one knew, but me. This was my special space to be present to all my complex feelings, and observe them as they moved through me.

My favorite book in middle school was “Walden” by Henry Thoreau (if not a close second, after Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”).

I dreamed about what it would be like to be so isolated, to slow the pace of life down to the point where I would notice early morning dew drops on the leaves of a flower, and wonder at the mirage of colors blending together as the sun set below the horizon.

I thought, “This is how life is supposed to be.”

The examples I saw of this type of true, childlike mindful awareness seemed only available by being alone.

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The pause is the epiphany

The changes over the past year, personally and collectively, leave me with more questions than answers. I have even more awareness of my “not knowingness” (avidya).

The pause is the epiphany.

You can’t grow through the process of change without patience.

An applied understanding of nervous system regulation and mindfulness meditation has allowed me to survive - even thrive - during difficult times.

I am ready to share this with you.

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