Marlena Stevens Yoga

11/25/2025

We often wait for big achievements to feel happy... a new job, a new relationship, a perfect moment in the future. But life doesn’t change in grand events. It changes in the tiny, quiet choices we make every day. 🌅

Waking up early and feeling the cool morning air. Buying yourself your favorite coffee without guilt. Taking a walk and actually noticing the sky, the trees, the breeze.

Eating food that nourishes you. Wearing something that makes you feel confident. Listening to music that lifts your spirit.

These are not small things. These are the threads that weave your life.

Happiness is not something you chase — it’s something you create, intentionally, gently, moment by moment.

When you start appreciating these little rituals, you stop waiting for life to get better and start falling in love with the life you’re already living. 💛

That is the essence: Joy is built, not found. 🌿✨

11/24/2025

The body heals…..

11/22/2025

Mindset is Everything... 🌿

A calm mind becomes the foundation of a calm life.
When you understand that your day is shaped more by your inner climate than the outer weather, everything begins to change.

A single positive thought can redirect your entire path, because the mind quietly builds the reality you step into.

Consciousness is simply the art of noticing — noticing your emotions, your reactions, your patterns, and the way your thoughts rise and fall like waves.
And in that awareness, transformation begins.

When you choose a mindset of clarity, kindness, and possibility, life slowly aligns with that frequency.

Challenges feel lighter, opportunities feel closer, and your heart feels more open.
Shift the mind, and the world around you shifts with it.

Believe in your own strength, even softly — for belief is the first step that carries you halfway to where you wish to go... 🌿

11/16/2025

Don't wait for others to choose you. Choose yourself today.

11/12/2025

morning yoga flow for beginners 💜

11/09/2025

🧘‍♀️ Balance isn’t found—it’s built.
Every wobble, breath, and comeback is part of the practice.
Keep creating your center. ✨💪

11/09/2025

The mat doesn’t ask you to be strong, flexible, or flawless.
It asks you to be honest.
To show up as you are, to feel what you feel, and to move from truth rather than expectation.
As teachers, we can help our students remember that yoga isn’t a performance, it’s a practice of presence.

10/27/2025

Take a moment to be proud of yourself...



Healing Hearts
Live Love Laugh

10/20/2025

Most of the prisons we live in are invisible.
They’re not built of walls and iron — but of beliefs, fears, attachments, and stories we keep repeating in our minds.

We say we can’t change, can’t let go, can’t be happy until something outside changes — but in truth, the bars are inside.
Every “I should,” “I must,” “I can’t,” and “I need” adds another layer to the mental cage we build around our own spirit.

Buddhism calls this dukkha — the suffering that comes from clinging and aversion.
When we hold too tightly to our thoughts, identities, or expectations, we become trapped by them.
But when we learn to watch the mind instead of believing every thought it produces, a space opens.
That space is freedom.

Meditation isn’t about stopping thoughts — it’s about seeing them clearly, understanding they’re just passing clouds in a vast sky.
When you realize that you are not the cage, but the sky itself — open, silent, boundless — no thought can imprison you again.

Freedom begins not with changing your life, but with changing your relationship to your thoughts.
The door has always been open.
You just have to notice that the cage was never locked.

☸️ "When the mind is free, the world is free."

10/16/2025

This is so true..

10/16/2025