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  • A reminder that our last Sunday morning Intermediate/Advanced class of the year is THIS SUNDAY! Join us from 9:30am-11:00am. . If you can’t make it this Sunday, mark your calendar for Sunday, December 8th. Taylor will be teaching an Asana Lab focused on the core from 9:30-10:45. RYTs, this class will count for CE credits with @yogaalliance . Link to schedule in profile.
  • Happy Sunday! We hope your weekend has been restful and wonderful so far! Join us this afternoon: Foundations - 4:30pm Guided Meditation - 5:45pm . #Repost @wildyogithing ・・・
  • We cannot be grateful for all that a given moment brings us; yet, in any given moment, we can be grateful for something. The gift within the gift of any given moment is opportunity. ~ Br. David Steindl-Rast. . What’s one thing you’re grateful for today?
  • Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given. Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. — David Whyte 📷: @emrobphotography
  • The Sanskrit word hatha can mean “force” or to “strike with determined effort”, much like the force required to hammer a nail into a piece of wood. This Friday evening, join us at 6:30pm for an All Levels donation class—Hatha for Humanity. All donations will go to support the Habitat for Humanity - Women Build 2020 project. For more information, to register or to donate, see the link in our bio.
  • Perhaps you can’t make it on to your mat today, but here’s something you can try to practice mindfulness and presence right now, wherever you are. Yoga is more than the poses, and this is a mindfulness practice you can do in less than 5 minutes. 1. Pause. Stand (or sit) wherever you are and look around you. Observe what’s there—objects, space, the quality of the light. 2. Close your eyes. If you do not feel comfortable with closing your eyes, soften your gaze on a single point. Listen. Observe the sounds around you. Notice what’s there and what you may hear now that you aren’t taking in information visually. Simply listen for a moment. 3. Become aware of your feet and how they are in contact with the earth. Perhaps you are inside and/or wearing shoes. You are still being supported and held by the earth. Take a moment to notice that support, and perhaps feel the subtle energy of your feet pressing into the earth. 4. Breathe. Observe your breath and the quality of your breath. Fast or slow, smooth or rough, cool or warm. Observe the movement of your breath in your body. Notice if you can feel your breath all the way into your feet or your hands. 5. Call to mind one thing you are grateful for. It may be something from this moment, or something outside of it. Hold that feeling of gratitude in your mind for a moment and stay a little longer in this pause if time permits. Thank you for practicing. ❤️
  • Same sliders. Different name. We’ve changed the name of our 9:30 Saturday morning class to Power Play. Don’t worry; it’s still the same class you hate to love.
  • Join us on a journey into peace and tranquility with vibrational sound therapist, Michael Burke. By incorporating a variety of instruments including Himalayan bowls, gong, Shaman drum, chimes, Native American flute and spoken word, Michael creates a space of grace and rest where we can embrace the subtle act of simply being. Michael Burke was born and raised in New Orleans where he was brought up with the power of sound as a way to navigate into a clearer and brighter awareness of health, happiness, and harmony. He has trained with the International Sound Therapy Association and works at several treatment centers in the Atlanta area as a Vibrational Sound Therapist. Date: Tuesday, November 12 Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm Cost: $25 Link to register in profile.
  • Erica is subbing the 9:30am class tomorrow! . #Repost @ericarasconyoga ・・・ Have you heard “Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry?” Me too. Sounds great. Didn’t stick 😅 but as a visual person, this was helpful: be a bottle of water and not a bottle of soda. You’re the bottle. What’s inside are your emotions and reactions. People who hate, envy or misunderstand you will try to shake you up. If you shake a soda bottle, it’ll explode once you open it. If you shake a bottle of water and open it, it’s still calm water. 💜Don’t let anybody disrupt your peace.🧡 (Thanks for sharing, @Kahysha_patterson) . . . Reset your peace this Hump Day. I will be subbing Level 1 @yogaselah tomorrow at 9:30am on behalf of the marvelous @tiffylou. I’d love to see you there! . . . . . #yoga #yogamom #meditation #asana #fitmom #balance #flexibility #blackyogis #blackgirlyoga #sistersofyoga #healthyliving #yogisofinstagram #yogapractice #yogalove #practicenotperfection #thesweatlife #yogadaily #yogaeverywhere
  • We hope your weekend is going great! If you aren’t able to make it to class today, we have an additional opportunity to practice tomorrow! Sunday: 9:30-11:00am - Intermediate/Advanced 4:30-5:30pm - Foundations 5:45-6:15pm - Guided Meditation
  • It’s almost the weekend! Tiffany is subbing tomorrow for Silent Meditation at 8:40am and All Levels at 9:30am. And don’t forget that our Intermediate/Advanced Sunday class is THIS Sunday from 9:30am-11:00! . #Repost @tiffylou ・・・ I’m leading a silent meditation at 8:40 followed by an All Levels class at 9:30 this Friday morning @yogaselah. I’m substitute teaching for @bextrussell while she learns new tricks at yoga therapy graduate school. Meditation and yoga are dear to me and I am thankful to share the practice. Join me. ☺️
  • Join us Friday, November 1st at 6:30 pm for an evening supporting Habitat For Humanity – North Central Georgia and the Women Build 2020 project. Proceeds from this donation class will go toward the project of building a home in Forsyth county for a family in need. Link to register in profile.
  • Tomorrow at 6:30pm! Yoga Magic: A Potter Practice. #Repost @wildyogithing ・・・ Harry Potter as a Spiritual Practice ↠ I’ve learned so much about working with the Harry Potter novels as sacred texts from @hpsacredtext, and one of my favorite sacred reading practices to do now {especially in conversation with @annalaurahhh} is a medieval monastic practice called Florilegium. The idea is that you can reach into the text and pick out any few pieces, like collecting flowers on a walk, and the pieces will harmonize to make new meaning. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m reading the final Harry Potter book right now, and it’s been profound and bittersweet in the way that it speaks to the “figure-it-out” phase that comes after we lose the parameters of formal education and a younger, guided life, but one of my favorite chapters so far has been a remarkable one called “The Silver Doe.” I picked two pieces of text from its pages: “The arms that closed around his chest were surely Death’s....” and “For she was nothing but light.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The arms that closed around his chest were surely death’s... for she was nothing but light. I read this as death = light. This calls me so powerfully to the idea within many spiritual traditions that we are made of light, we come from light, and we will return to light. Death is a returning to the light that is our true essence, and every time we return to who we truly are in life, it’s a little death that brings us closer to the light of the soul. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I share all of this to say that I am so excited to bring practices like this to @yogaselah just 10 days from now! Please join me for my witchy *Yoga Magic: A Potter Practice* workshop on Friday, October 5th at 6:30 pm, where we’ll practice enchanted yoga postures, magical meditation, and engage with spiritual practices like this one to listen deeply for the ways that these beloved texts speak to our hearts. You’ll even have the chance to stay for a free + wicked HP movie screening. Visit http://www.yogaselah.com/events/ for details and registration. ❤️⚡️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📸 by @kellytmarieyoga for @dirtysouthyogafest
  • “...begin the day not with a to do list but a not to do list, a moment outside of the time-bound world in which it can be reordered and reprioritized. In this space of undoing and silence we create a foundation from which to re-imagine our day and ourselves. Beginning the daily conversation from a point of view of freedom and being untethered allows us to re-see ourselves, to reenter the world as if for the first time. We give ourself and our accomplishments, our ambitions, and our over-described hopes away, in order to see in what form they return to us”. — David Whyte
  • Have you made some space in your schedule for practice this week? A look at tomorrow’s schedule: 6:00am - Sunrise Flow w/ Pat. 9:30am - Level 1 w/ @tiffylou. 5:00pm - All Levels w/ @ericarasconyoga. 6:15pm - Foundations w/ @bextrussell. 7:30pm - Intermediate/Advanced w/ Taylor. #Repost @ericarasconyoga ・・・ Remind yourself, "Something wonderful is happening." All day. Each day. Even when your plans are thrown off, or you're facing a situation that would normally make you uncomfortable. . . . Santosha, or contentment, is one of the niyamas, a twig (lol) within the 8 limbs of yoga. I find that I am most content when I remind myself of what is going well and what I am grateful for. For example, I may be running late because of traffic (grr!) but it's wonderful to have a friend to visit. It's wonderful to have transportation to see her. All that has fallen into place to create this moment--my health, my history, the present--has worked together wonderfully. I can (try to) be content, even in traffic, because of that. . . . . #yoga #balance #strength #igyogafam #sistersofyoga #blackgirlyoga #yogaeverydamnday #health #fitness #blackyogis #afrofitness #philosophy
  • We are so excited to have @wildyogithing offer her Yoga Magic class at Yoga Selah! Yoga is an eight-limbed practice which includes physical movement, meditation, service, devotion and more. The foundations and principles of this ancient practice are laid out in sacred texts like the Vedas, the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita— but what can we learn about the Yogic Path from a beloved, modern, and magical text? This Harry-Potter themed yoga practice aims to find out! We’ll practice enchanted asana inspired by the Wizarding World, engage in a sacred reading practice with the text, sit for a 7-chakra guided meditation themed around each of Harry’s 7 years at Hogwarts, and more. All of our work together will center around this question: What can Harry, his friends, and their experiences teach us about living as an open-hearted yogi in the world? Date: Saturday, October 5th. Time: 6:30pm. Cost: $16 drop in or use your class package. We will be hanging out after class to watch one of the HP movies, so wear your comfiest clothes and join us! (Movie is complimentary for class participants only). Link to register in profile.
  • Equipoise: a state of equilibrium; balance. • #Repost @tiffylou ・・・ The acupuncturist I see told me that fall is the best season for balancing my body type. I proceeded by telling him how much I dislike the fall. He said that was probably because fall calls on me to use the weaker parts of my body, which makes me uncomfortable (like taking a deep breath of clear, crisp air with my lungs, which are my weakest organ, according to him). This made me think about what other things I may be missing out on because of my “distaste” for them. Yoga is a great practice for discovering and sitting with discomfort (discomfort is very different from pain). Happy first day of fall, y’all.
  • Beauty is the harvest of presence, the evanescent moment of seeing or hearing on the outside what already lives far inside us; the eyes, the ears or the imagination suddenly become a bridge between the here and the there, between then and now, between the inside and the outside; beauty is the conversation between what we think is happening outside in the world and what is just about to occur far inside us. - David Whyte
  • How are you finding balance this week? . #Repost @wildyogithing ・・・ A balance. ⚡️ Creating, giving, sharing... pausing and restoring, too. Maybe it’s a cliche at this point, but the work is real. Like Ma Jaya said, you’ve got to learn to drink as you pour. Here’s the thing: I want to share a new yoga practice with you on YouTube. It’s about that time. My intention has been to publish a new class around once a month as much as I’m able, and today would have been a perfect day to film. But I couldn’t teach yoga today. Just... nope. You know? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today is my first day off of teaching or holding space in quite some time, and I’m teaching at least two classes a day on most of the days that I do teach. And while I’m immensely grateful for the abundance and flow in my life right now, and while teaching is my sweet sweet love, I needed a day to *not* teach. To keep my energy to myself. I hope you know you deserve that, too, just because you do. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So while I draw inward a bit, I’ll simply ask: what kind of yoga practice would benefit you this week? What do you need— physically, energetically, spirituality? Let me know below. I’d love to meet you where you are. I’ll be sharing by the end of the week. Thank you for being in community with me. ❤️🌙
  • Where will your practice take you this week? Beginners Series starts tonight at 6:15pm! #Repost @janahanalei ・・・

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