Ananda Lila Yoga

29/08/2022

https://fb.watch/fcXiIs-4Pb/

11/02/2021

22/01/2021

So true...

I can’t be alone on this!?!

Who else rocks out of a yoga sesh feeling on fire!

Did you know some of the amazing benefits of laughter?!?
short term it can...
👉🏾 stimulate your heart, lung, muscles
👉🏾 relieve stress
👉🏾 soothe tension
And long term it can improve your immune system.

So try to find some laughter my wonderful friends! 💜
❤️

09/10/2020

I wanted to repost this and give credit to the author thank you for the clarification

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CONVERSATION STARTER—Have you run into messaging that is incongruent? Classes and teachers advertising and positioning themselves as accessible when it’s quite far from that being true? Have you yourself put out incongruent messaging?

As you work to diversify your yoga classes, are you focusing more on marketing or on your teaching style itself?

There’s no doubt that inclusive marketing is essential. As we work to unwind the destructive impacts of Western capitalism on yoga, we must actively rethink the version of yoga that our images and words are selling. 

But if that’s where our focus lies, it’s all too easy to make claims that your classes are inclusive without ensuring that they actually are, or to tokenize students who don’t fit the stereotypical yoga mold.

In my experience, I’ve found that the opposite approach works better. First, take the time to reflect on yourself and your teaching style. Does the language you use in class encourage students to find the essence of a pose based on their body and the moment at hand, or does it focus on prioritizing the way a shape looks or what the “full expression” is said to be? Do you offer adaptations and customizations to poses that are equal in impact, or in some sort of hierarchy that says some iterations of a pose are less valuable than the “real thing”? 

Once I started approaching my classes in this way, I noticed a natural shift. Once students had positive, inclusive experiences, they told their friends and the word spread. Soon my classes looked far different than they did before, and I didn’t need to rely on canned messages to achieve that change. If you build it, they will come.

How have you shifted your teaching and how you advertise classes over the years to promote inclusivity?

Note: This is a photo of me taken in 2011.

10/09/2020

https://www.facebook.com/inspireyogatt/videos/612867569396514/?vh=e&extid=StLtmuasuNAyWTtz

02/09/2020

https://www.facebook.com/101219976690960/posts/2306484756164460/?extid=9XZcVW2zGBjCeQdz

03/07/2020

Don’t believe everything you think!

Thoughts are just that. Thoughts.

The mind is made to wander and think.

The mind and voices therein can drive us mad.

When we get triggered, the mind makes meaning of it, we have our mental chatter about it, and we have an emotional response.

BUT what if we OBSERVED the mind. What if we observed the feelings?

ALLOWED the thoughts to come and ALLOWED them to go. Witnessed them. Not believed that every thought was the word of God.

I invite us to do this today. Don’t believe in every thought you think. Thinking happens. Allow it. And breathe deep and create space in the mind.