I used to feel like a bad yoga teacher, like someone who wasn’t living up to the title. Because I like to wear stylish clothes, love when my Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines arrive in the mail, and the amount of pleasure I get from a good dark chocolate bar is almost indecent. So, I figured, I wasn’t really a true yoga teacher, just a gal teaching yoga.Then I discovered Tantra. There are worlds within worlds in yoga. Varying schools of thought, ways of categorizing our experiences, and branches … [Read more...] about How Yoga Can Help You Stop Feeling Like You’re Not Spiritual Enough and Love Your Life
Lindsey Lewis
8 Ways to Be Your Own Best Teacher
No matter how we define a teacher or a guru—an expert, an enlightened person, or someone who challenges us in a way that makes us look at all of our own limiting beliefs—each of these ways of looking at the terms places the teacher or guru outside us. These kinds of teachers and gurus are powerful. But the most powerful source of wisdom is within. How do we activate our own inner teacher, our own inner guru, so that we always have someone to lean on and guide us? The most powerful source of … [Read more...] about 8 Ways to Be Your Own Best Teacher
5 Ways Yoga Can Help You Fall in Love with Your Body
When I first started doing yoga, I really didn’t like my body very much. I rarely had any positive thoughts about it. Mostly when I thought about my body I felt frustrated, or ashamed. These sound like big things to feel but in my experience talking and working with women these are some of the most common ways us women feel about our body. When we give ourselves the time and space to really listen to what we tell ourselves about our body, it’s surprising what we hear. It’s unusual for us to have … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Yoga Can Help You Fall in Love with Your Body
The Advanced Yoga Practice for When Things Fall Apart
Crap happens. Things fall apart. Life gets hard. This is about the advanced, accessible yoga practice that will help you when that happens. Read on… We make life harder or easier depending on how we think about what’s happening. We can’t change what happened to us, but we can change how it impacts us. The shift from the toxin of “This is terrible” to the cleansing “This is what it is” is relief. We go from fighting our reality to letting it be what it will be. It will be that, whether we … [Read more...] about The Advanced Yoga Practice for When Things Fall Apart
10 Ways to Find Peace
1. Get into your body. When we’re not feeling peace, it’s usually because we’re not feeling at all. We’re thinking. And we’re believing all these non-peaceful thoughts. We’re also feeding them with more energy. So to stop feeding the thoughts, and feed peace instead, we drop away from the part of our brain in charge of thoughts and into the part of our brain in charge of physical sensation. Do some asana, go for a jog, wrestle with your dog, or just lie down and breathe into every space in … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Find Peace
Soul Freedom and How it Relates to Your Real-World Life
Could you live free? Really, truly, free. It’s a question that, these days, a lot of people are answering ‘yes’ to. Yes, we can be who we truly want to be. Yes, we can live outside the 9 to 5 box. Yes, we can create a reality that’s reflective of our dreams. Here are five living proofs of real-world soul freedom, and how all of it relates to yoga, Tantra, your intrinsic soul desires, and moksha. 5 PROOFS OF REAL-WORLD SOUL FREEDOM Chris Gillebeau, author of The Art of Non-Conformity. Living … [Read more...] about Soul Freedom and How it Relates to Your Real-World Life
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