Karen Davies Yoga

22/10/2020

No matter what is going on in the world, you are loved.

On another note... I've stopped watching/listening/reading the news as of Wednesday, this is helping my feel much more calm and loved. I know it's a bit head-in-the-sand, but for the next week that is me.

We are all loved.

17/10/2020

11/10/2020

Just for today...

09/10/2020

Now that’s a Princess worth being!!

30/09/2020

There's no denying it any longer, Summer is most definitely over, with the equinox last week, we are in a transitional period. For me this feels quite personal, there is a lot changing at the moment, and I'm withdrawing inwards a bit whilst I see what is happening next. The last few months have been tough, losing both my darling cats, and trying to figure out how to earn a living again in the world of Covid. The things that help me through it all... yoga, meditation, friends, wine, boyfriend, family, nature, walking, beaches, cappuchinos, cooking, baths, gardening, hugs, chats on the phone, love ❤️

01/09/2020

Class planning with the help of yoga cat.

27/08/2020

Living for today - https://mailchi.mp/193aaa15a0ab/however-youre-feeling-today-be-gentle-with-yourself-18842492

Roses, Late Summer- Mary Oliver What happens to the leaves after they turn red and golden and fall away? What happens to the singing birds when they can't sing any longer? What happens to their quick wings? Do you think there is any personal heaven for any of us? Do you think anyone, the other side....

27/08/2020

This little beauty is demonstrating bananasana for us 🐈❤️🧘‍♀️

26/08/2020

17/08/2020

"This being human is a guest house"
How are you doing at welcoming all of your emotions as guests?
They are all just visiting us.
They are upon us for a while.

Whatever emotions are upon you right now, be kind to yourself ❤️

17/08/2020

"True self-care is not salt baths & chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don't regularly need to escape from"

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt & enforcing a morning routine & cooking yourself healthy meals & no longer just running from your problems & calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time & then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire & turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths & chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen & deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs & keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, & how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”

Words by the incredible Brianna Wiest

Incredible artwork by Amanda Oleander Art

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