Akasha Yoga

05/09/2020

Find that place inside yourself, where the noise of the outer world disappears.
Where even your own thoughts, opinions and judgements become quiet.
Rest here in this still, silent safe space, knowing that you can always return here to recharge your energy. Your quiet inner centre is always with you, always a place of peace you can draw into.
Breathe. Release. Begin again.
Repeat as often as you need 💫

29/04/2020

Yoga is more than body postures.
Some reflections on
The fifth limb of ashtanga yoga
The conscious withdrawal from the senses
Withdrawal of identification from the senses
Example
If I see and smell chocolate, I don't identify with it, the craving, or the desire to eat it
I simply perceive, with all senses, all the external world as one canvas-like interactive board
I need not always listen with identification, I need not always speak or even think with identification with the words or the thoughts
As I go deeper into comprehension and meaning, I discover that I experience refinement of the senses
Only then can one experience Transcendence, however fleeting
I allow the senses to follow the mind, rather than the mind and action to follow the sensory impulses
Withdrawing from identification with the experience, and the experiencer
Observing with concentration, with clarity of mind, with conscious awareness only, as pure witness
This creates discernment, so that actions are conscious and non-compulsive
This is the practice of Pratyahara
A step to liberation
There is the past, it has passed.
There is the future, it will come.
There is the present, it is Now.

12/04/2020

The sun rises in the East and sets in the West
Isn't that how the saying goes?
What if that were more than a saying, but also a (self-fulfilling) prophecy?
Humans have a tendency to project subconsciously.
And what if we were to do so, much more consciously? To open to shared collective consciousness awareness, and to breathe in the knowing that humans are mentally connected beings - connected through psyche/mind and emotions.
We all share a common field or dimension of reality known as the mental field or psychological realm, in which our thoughts and emotional moods/states can interact or have impact on others' who can think thoughts and feel emotion and thus have their own psycho-emotional frameworks. Their own point of consciousness. The internet is like a simulation of this, but with selective interaction creating limits and freedoms which might be contrary to material dimensional dispositions or conditions.
The Internet 'Web' is a great playing space, but it's not where real psychological, or 'psychic' links of humanity are. The real place of cognitive functioning, conscious movement, contemplation, compassion and material manipulation is a more primary layer of reality than the digital interconnection. The digital field can add to it or it can subtract from it. Technology can distract us from our inherent connectivity, or it can deepen it.
The direct psychological interplay space, is where you physically be in the now, even while reading this. It's the space around your material being.
You are where you are in your journey.
The people closest to you in your homespace, are most closely connected with you and your own mental / psychic life. Whether you are aware of the realms or not is irrelevant, their psychology (or paucity) and your psychology share physical space.
If you have 'landed' with a loving bunch or a soul friend or your solitary heart, and are brimming in abundance of love and lightness, you are blessed. Many are in psychological distress through the 'lockdown', and some in physical distress. Some in places of discomfort are still better off than others.
Consider yourself lucky if the worst of your concerns are boredom and nostalgia for the way things were.
Things will not be the same again, we must adapt with the shift. And we will do wisely to interact with our psychological field more mindfully, considerately and clearly.
The veil will lift, and when it does, humanity will be more in tune with itself.
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10/04/2020

ASTRONOMY.
Corona refers to "the rarefied gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars. The sun's corona is normally visible only during a total solar eclipse, when it is seen as an irregularly shaped pearly glow surrounding the darkened disc of the moon."
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The external surrounding 'layer' of a sun / star.
An outline. A ring of fire. A cosmic coating of chemistry, physics and biology. A scientific subject of study as part of the whole object of the sun - one of the closest objects to our world and the star of our small galactic system in which we live, on a world of cars and buildings and grass and sand and trees and water and stone and air and thought and emotion and intuition and awareness and satellites and ether and self-reflective consciousness .. Gazing at the sun.
Isn't it interesting that yoga practice is a salute to the sun, and all of the cosmos, inner and outer..🌞🙏🏻

25/03/2020

Isn't it all just a game of perspective?
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Imagine that each day is a new note in the song of the uni-verse.
Is the verse pre-written, a preplanned coordinated event of manipulation and motion of energy, like when an instrument is manipulated to make music?
Or is this a free-style kind of verse where each word comes through a state of flow and each member of the 'band' of a community (or the human race itself) learn to harmonise. Finding rhythm, creating a melody, singing to the beat.
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Be the energy you need to thrive, with ethic and community. This is collective and we are the symbolic 'music' of the uni-verse through our very consciousness.
It's like that 'Get Schwifty' episode of Rick&Morty, for anyone who knows the show. Imagine our very survival depended on how good our music is. Music of soul. But unlike the show, with deeper moral standing and greater dignity. 🙏🏻😅
Being your best self creates a ripple of goodness around you. 💓🎶🎼
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And unless there's been an 'inter-net' like this on the planet that we've never known of before, I doubt there's been a movement like this in the short history of humanity!
Through this phase / shift in consciousness, we are called to Be alert, stay balanced and be conscious as we Grow, possibly into a healthier happier existence.
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Here's to living with heart! Gently with one another. 💞 Because we're all processing this quite differently - am I right?
Give grace to those in fear, and lets continue the work to keep ourselves from becoming overloaded with it.
That's the reason I've felt inclined to share my thoughts. Helps keep me sane to express myself!
Love and Light to anyone this reaches ✌🏻✨

23/03/2020

Collective energy observations at present.
🔴'Code Red'🔴
I expect we'll move through each chakra's energy through this mass Awakening.
Just a personal theory amidst the many theories floating around regarding the current paradigm shift ✨
Stay Balanced friends

20/03/2020

Corona: (Anatomy:) a part of the body resembling or likened to a crown 👑

The gift of this chakra is experiencing unity and the selfless realization that everything is connected at a fundamental level...
A level that some call the "Akasha" or "Zero Point Field", or just "the Field". This is the fundamental level of connection.
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The Crown Chakra is the seat of cosmic consciousness and connects us to Divine intelligence and Divine grace. Explore the seventh chakra in depth, learn tools to balance and awaken this powerful energy centre.

16/03/2020

Meditation Practice.
Vital at a time like this, grounding into the Power of Now.
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Now is the time.
Now is the time to sit still and listen
Now is the time to let go of superficiality
Now is the time to reflect on what's truly important
Now is the time to hydrate and eat well
Now is the time to open the heart
Now is the time to stay brave and strong
Now is the time to take care of self and others
Now is the time to be kind and generous
Now is the time to enjoy loved ones
Now is the time to bond and unite
Now is the time to accept and transmute
Now is the time to slow down and heal

Now is the time for compassion and empathy
Now is the time for inner awareness
Now is the time for emotional intelligence
Now is the time for self-realisation
Now is the time for self-actualisation
Now is the time for faith and hope
Now is the time for higher wisdom embodiment
Now is the time for humanity to evolve
Now is the time for truth and revelation

Now is the time to move gracefully
Now is the time to breathe intentionally
Now is the time to let the soul speak
Now is the time to Be.
Now
is the time.
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~ Áine

10/03/2020

"Body awareness is one of the great gifts of yoga that can transfer to life and build other related competencies such as emotional awareness, empathy and intuition. In yoga we relearn to feel ourselves so we can feel our values, needs, wisdom, and also those of others." ~ Mark Walsh

09/03/2020

Just a notification that tomorrow's lunchtime yoga class at Betty's Place will unfortunately be cancelled!
Apologies to anyone who was preparing to come to class 🙁
Next Tuesday's 12pm class will go ahead as planned.
Thanks,
Áine

05/03/2020

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04/03/2020

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