Swadharma - Life Is Precious

26/12/2022

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23/01/2022

THE.ART.OF.CONNECTION.

Confession: I’ve been biased, sceptical, reluctant for all these years - sorry .weis - towards going (wholeheartedly) online. I’ve spent almost two decades refining my gift and I was sure. Totally, completely, stubbornly-virgo-style certain: my gift is CONNECTION. Explanation mark. Close proximity, in person, including sharing each other’s bodily presence, to move, to feel, to bodywork, to heal, to share wisdom IN PERSON.

I loved seeing my colleagues going online with bigger offerings, I loved the idea of making small offerings available for my folks online. Nevertheless to feel myself into the feeling place of making REAL, TANGIBLE, LASTING, SUSTAINABLE IMPACT in peoples direct experiences… I just couldn’t believe it. I was just too grippy holding on to the “old ways” without noticing how limiting this belief is to my myself and the world.

Today I’m grateful to have tested positive earlier this week. Without being forced into staying at home I would have never taken the chance to test my gift in a greater offering via screen.

🙏 I am beyond grateful for a rockstar colleague holding space in presence with a stellar and impressive group of open, authentic and vulnerable woman full of beauty and wisdom.
🙏 I’m grateful for the tech support of my dear partner .weis and dear friend .
🙏 I’m grateful for 18 years honing my craft in the room with truly inspiring humans.
🙏 I’m grateful to have now the experience in my bones that the magic sparks through screens and speakers.

Change is possible. Big change is possible. Big change is rolling in. Be prepared world: 15 empowered woman are rolling in, rocking the show in self empowered and authentic ways. Change is on the horizon.

Thank you Covid for teaching me humility.

23/01/2022

POSITIVE.

Remains a positive word for me. Because we get to choose how we relate to what happens to us. Always. I choose positivity over being tested positive because:
* my body is f****** rockstar
* I have the best sister aka colleague to rock the postnatal training hybrid style with 1 day notice. , I bow to you!
* I have the most supportive husband rocking the girls while I get to be present with the group
* I have the most amazing woman around me sharing, listening, growing
* I have the best bread in the world delivered to my house 🙏
* I have meaningful interactions with amazing woman .nicola.schmidt
* I get to dive in, befriend, discover the magic of online connection (I’m surprised and positively empowered)
* I get to grow in my skill set (enjoying a hell of a steep learning curve!)
* did I speak about my body? Hell yeah what a magic place to live in.
Oh, the list is endless!!!

To wrap up this particular post (covid diary to come):
I’ve tested the waters. I’ve explores almost every practice Yoga has to offer. I’ve tested the practices to the bone. My long term study reveals: 18 years of yoga practice have given me super powers.

Just so you don’t get caught up in judgement or bullsh*tting about the yogis and the C-topic: the “super power” is to accept and embrace what is without trying to resist or change it and actually douse what is with love… boom, that’s the superpower.

19/01/2022

WHAT.IF.

Wie wäre es, wenn du dich in der körperlich & emotional wildesten Achterbahnfahrt deines Lebens geliebt, verstanden, gehalten, unterstützt und gewertschätzt fühlen würdest?
Kaum eine andere Phase im Leben einer Frau unterliegt solch massiven Veränderungen wie der Wandel von der Frau zur Mutter.
Es ist an der Zeit, dass unsere Gesellschaft Frauen und Mamas mit grösstem Respekt, wertschätzend, anerkennend und liebevoll begegnet. Es ist an der Zeit, dass wir uns selbstbewusst, echt und selbstbestimmt erheben. Für uns, unsere Familien – und für die Zukunft unserer Kinder. Dafür brauchen wir einander!

In unseren 50h Prä- und 50h Postnatal Yoga Trainings möchten wir alle Aspekte begreifen und ehren - körperlich, energetisch, emotional und mental. So vielschichtig die Schwangerschaft und das Muttersein sind, so umfassende und vielfältige Werkzeuge bietet uns Yoga.
Unsere drei Säulen sind: Begleitung, Verbindung und Bestärkung. Sie sind das Fundament auf dem eine gesunde, glückliche, selbstbewusste und selbstbestimmte Entwicklung geschehen kann.

Unsere Trainings sind ein stabiles Grundgerüst, auf dessen Grundlage du dein unvergleichliches Angebot aufbauen kannst. Entdecke deine Note, deinen einzigartigen Unterrichtsstil, deine Stimme und deine Geschenke für die Welt. Wir begleiten dich in deine Echtheit und Authentizität mit allem was dich ausmacht. Die Frauen- und Mamawelt braucht dich!

Lasst uns gemeinsam der Frauen- und Mamakultur einen Ruck verpassen!
Unser nächstes 50h Postnatal Training startet am kommenden Freitag in Wiesbaden & Online im Live Stream statt. Wenn du noch dabei sein möchtest, fühle dich von Herzen 💜 willkommen. Link findest du in der Bio.

Deine & Julia

19/01/2022

HOME.COMING

Part V

Wander to open, come home to become whole. “Home” means bringing all parts of you to the present moment experience. Settle into the sensations of the body and the flow of breath. It’s your anchor for the here and the now.

Choose to come home often. It’s the best investment of time and energy you can possibly make. Home is where you recharge, home is where you align, home is where you investigate, home is where you find the answers, as blurry as they might seem.
The more you tend to your home, keep it clean and tidy, invest into “inner hygiene” the more clear the answers will arise.

CHOOSE.TO.COME.HOME.

19/01/2022

REST.

Part IV

Practice homecoming, practice rest, practice yielding. True receptivity has corroded in recent years. You have a choice. The small moments matter. Continuous scrolling or awareness to breathing. Running for the next task or a moment of potent pause.

I’ll sleep when I’m dead says my grandma. Sleep now I say. Every evening 10:30pm lights out. Sleep is medicine. If you have trouble sleeping, try yoga Nidra (link in bio).

Choose wisely. The state of your nervous system matters. You matter.

REST is a human right.

19/01/2022

MOVE.IN.

Part III

When triggered and flushed by uncomfortable emotions we tend to do one of three:
* move away
* move towards
* move against

In the most simple terms this means:
* flight
* apple-polishing
* fight

Yoga aka “shame resilience” opens up another path: move in. Move into the emotion. Make the bodily container wide enough so the emotion can expand, breath and be metabolized. Make the mental container big enough so the emotion can expand, breath and be metabolized by your unshakable dedication to your values.

Moving in is mostly not something we’ve learned in our homes or in school. It’s a skill we develop if we take an honest step towards our authentic selves, our truth, our Dharma.

MOVE.IN.

19/01/2022

CHOOSING.TO.TAKE.THE.POWER.BACK.WITHIN.

Part II of V
This practice is designed to work through the residual of hormonal stress responses in the tissue. By releasing the issue from the tissue we get to pave the path for a reset of the nervous system and start all fresh.

Especially if you live in a more conservative society (like me) make sure to shake off and dust off the old bridle way of dealing with challenges. Moving the default response from blame, shame, anger to choose a more open, listening, understanding option.

As adults we mostly have at least some sort of option to respond. It is a good choice to focus manifolding these options. To practice equanimity and pausing before we steam off into “conversation”.

Steam off on the mat to take informed action and make compassionate statements.

May this practice support you!!!

19/01/2022

THE.CHOICE.

I was playing with a sequence and some potent content as I’m getting ready to record for .

My biggest learning is that: iPhone video didn’t record the sound of the pods. Bummer. I have a choice though. Ditch it all together or share it with you. It’s potent class so I chose to ditch the perfectionism.

It come in snippets.

May the practice be a container for transformation.

It’s worth it!
You are worth it!
The world needs you in your best version! Now more than ever!!!

09/01/2022

REST.IS.MEDICINE.

Medical research estimates as much as 90 percent of illness and disease is stress-related. In recent times Stress has changed it’s face and humans have to stay wide awake to re-identify stress triggers and be fierce to change behavior in order to stay true to the habits which serve their health and contentment truly, honestly, sustainably. Stress can interfere with your physical functioning and bodily processes. High blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and heart disease and many more diseases have been linked to stress factors. This is certainly nothing new.

Don’t you find it interesting though, that we treat a large percentage of stress related diseases with stress hormones? We use corticosteroids for all sorts of treatments. Pain, skin, joints, inflammation, nerves, respiratory… the list is endless.

The constant multitasking of our Covid- and tech-ruled lives makes either our bodies and / or our minds run from task to task releasing cortisol from the adrenal cortex of the adrenal gland causing all sorts of trouble in our body-mind-system especially if not fully metabolized through sustainable physical activity.

Long story short: what if we treated stress related symptoms and diseases with constructive rest, deep relaxation techniques, meditation and other resiliency increasing methods?

It won’t make the pain go away immediately, but it will pave pathways to get to the cause of the pain. And it will equip you with the strength and juice make the adjustments needed to change the cause of the pain instead of injecting yet more immune suppressing hormones into a stress stricken system.

REST.IS.MEDICINE.

It might not completely prevent or replace medical treatments, however, constructive rest will ALWAYS SUPPORT your healing.

Enjoy the practice. Rest well. Rest often. Rest alone. Rest with your partner. Rest with your family. Rest with your friends.

Free practice. LINK IN BIO.

30/12/2021

PAUSE.FOR.POTENCY

Nach all unseren Erfahrungen als Mama und den vielen Gesprächen mit euch in den letzten Jahren ist eines sicher: Alle Mütter tragen in ihren großen Herzen den Wunsch eine gute Mama zu sein!
Um diese liebevolle Mama für die so von uns geliebten Kinder sein zu können, eine Mama, die glücklich, ausgeglichen und weise die vielfältigen und vielschichtigen Aufgaben des Mamaseins Tag und Nacht bewältigt, braucht jede Mutter Räume für Ruhe, Reflektion, Selbstfürsorge, Räume um das Selbstbewusstsein zu stärken, sowie wohlwollende Unterstützung. In kaum einer anderen Lebensphase werden wir als Frau so auf den Kopf gestellt, wenn es darum geht alte Muster und Werte zu überprüfen und mit der eigenen, neuen Geschichte, mit Bedürfnissen und Sehnsüchten in Einklang zu bringen.

Wir sind der Überzeugung, dass Selbstbewusstsein, Selbstbestimmung und Wertschätzung dabei die wichtigsten und nachhaltigsten Investitionen in das Mamasein sind - von Beginn an. Es wird nicht nur die Qualität zu den Kindern, sondern auch die Zukunft von uns allen positiv beeinflussen.

Magst Du mit in diese wertvolle Begleitung und Unterstützung von Müttern einsteigen?
Magst du dich tiefer mit deiner Mamarolle und postnatalen Heilung beschäftigen?
Magst Du mit deinen Yoga Angeboten Mamas, und damit auch ihren Kindern helfen, eine glückliche und zufriedene Mama zu sein?
Ist das nicht eine unendlich wertvolle Aufgabe!?

In unserem Training möchten wir dich mit unseren Erfahrungen und Werkzeugen aus 20 Jahren Yoga Unterrichten und langjährigem Mamasein inspirieren und ausstatten.

➡️ 50h an 2 WE in 2022: Januar 21.-23., Februar 19. & 20.
➡️ Wiesbaden & Online Live Stream
➡️ Infos & Anmeldung im Link in der Bio

Wir freuen uns auf dich!
Deine Julia & Melanie