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We run semi-silent yoga, meditation and adventure retreats and trainings on the island of Kauai.

03/13/2018

Every day has a night. So wasn’t I, too, born to enjoy my own darkness? 🌘🌑🌒
📷: .cochran_

03/12/2018

This is one of my favorite questions to ask myself to create greater internal space.
The truth is, many of us are habitually “chewing” on something, mentally speaking. We’re figuring something out, analyzing something, planning something, moving something forward, etc. Over time, the continuous engagement with these “somethings” becomes a sort of white noise of our mind - a happening in the background that we’ve grown so accustomed to that we rarely notice it anymore.
But there’s another dimension to us. A more spacious, less busy and already full dimension. A dimension that is the sweetest nectar I know.
For me, this question acts as a sort of “gateway to being” when I’ve been chewing on my own “somethings” and am ready for a break. It’s gentle. There’s no “should” or “c’mon, for real? you’re still on this?” involved. It’s open-ended enough to allow for a soft letting go. I’m not telling myself to do anything, I’m just posing a question. What if...
It’s like the internal version of going up to your friend who’s been on their computer for way too long and saying in you kindest voice (as you slowly close their laptop), “hey friend, what if we go outside for a bit...”
What if...just for a bit...we didn’t have to figure anything out?

03/10/2018

All hail Mother Nature! 🙌🏼👑
🎵 :

03/09/2018

Again. And again. And again. ☀️👑

03/09/2018

“We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for” -

03/09/2018

I hated being a girl, but I absolutely love being a woman.
As a girl I remember feeling like I lost the lottery. Like there was all this freedom and wildness that boys were entitled to that wasn’t offered to me. I had no interest in doing anything “like a girl” and from a very early age felt a sort of deep-seated (yet unconscious) frustration with a culture that wanted me to be acquiescent and demure. I really wanted a Mohawk, was annoyed that my brothers got to be topless when I had to wear a shirt and had no interest in idle chit-chat, playing with dolls or wearing dresses. Just let me wear my blue track suit that glows in the dark and we’ll call it a day.
Like all humans though, some part of me also really wanted to fit in - to be accepted into and protected by the “tribe.” The tribe of my family and of my culture. And since I’m sensitive I could read pretty easily what I needed to do to stay on the normal side of weird or the acceptable side of confrontational. For me, this was a great source of being “split.” Stephen Cope writes, “Freud believes that this split is the very nature of neurosis. And that none of us can avoid it. It is, apparently, a part of the human experience.”
Fast forward a few decades and I fu***ng love being a woman! In some of the yogic traditions it’s said that women are 16 times more sensitive than men. Sixteen times!! And that’s not saying 16 times better, just more sensitive. In other words, in the same way that dogs can hear things that as humans we’re completely oblivious too, there’s a world that women are attuned to that men simply can’t access.
All of us alive today were undeniably born into a long-standing patriarchy. My mind is blown on the daily at how deeply it’s been ingrained in us that the male-dominated perspective is the “accurate” perspective. Because of this women’s sensitivity has been terribly skewed and labeled as everything from “drama” to “hysteria” to “paranoia” to “delusion”. Whatever you want to call it, the bottom line has been that it’s “wrong” and “ridiculous.”
But the tides are changing and as women we are, slowly but surely, no longer asking for validation (continued 👇🏼)

03/08/2018

🎶 (covering )

03/08/2018

I’ve fallen back in love with the Bhagavad Gita recently (specifically Eknath Easwaran’s translation). I remember crying the first time I read it about 13 years ago. And then, for some reason, I put it down and didn’t pick it up again until recently.
Stephen Cope wrote a book called “The Great Work of your Life” where he relates the Gita’s message to different people’s journeys - some famous and some “ordinary.” Two of the people whose lives he tracks are Jane Goodall and Henry David Thoreau.
He writes, “Unlike Goodall, young Thoreau was not a celebrity in his own day. Far from it. He was widely seen as an ‘irresponsible idler, a trial to his family, and no credit to his town.’ In short, Thoreau was seen as a loser. I fell in love with Thoreau is graduate school. I loved how this guy had apparently embraced his inner loser.”
I, too, have always had a bit of an intellectual and spiritual crush on Thoreau. As someone who loves to be quietly immersed in nature I admired how far he’d followed that path especially in light of it making him a total weirdo in the eyes of society.
“A man tracks himself through life. One should be always on the trail of one’s deeper nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.” -Thoreau
“Be resolutely and faithfully what you are. Be humbly what you aspire to be...man’s noblest gift to man is his sincerity, for it embraces his integrity also.” - Thoreau

03/07/2018

“Into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” Not sure who said it, but I ❤️ it.
📷: .cochran_

03/06/2018

Literally all I’m intending to do. All day. Every day. Morning. Noon. Night. Wake up. And repeat.
Trust what?
That Life is intelligent. That I’m connected to that intelligence even when it doesn’t feel easily accessible. That if I let go I’ll be supported. That guidance is available to me when I quiet down and listen. That what I don’t have wasn’t meant for me. And what I do, was. That to BE is to love and that that is enough.

03/04/2018

It’s too easy to wait. Postponing is the mind’s craftiness at work. Instead, whatever we have, let’s give it now. ❤️

03/04/2018

If there’s one thing I’ve been called my whole life, it’s “sensitive.” Which to me just means that I “sense” things. I’m attuned, for better or worse, to the more subtle workings of life - of myself, other people, relationships, environments, etc.
As I’ve gotten older I’ve gotten better at navigating this. My boundaries are stronger and I know how to be in the world without absorbing everything happening around me. I can turn this sensitivity “off” to an extent by switching into a different “mode” of being.
And yet, being sensitive and absorptive still feels natural to me. And so I go to where the vibes are pure and supportive, where it’s healthy for me to take in all that’s around me. I go to the trees and the rivers and the ocean and the mountains because it’s their messages I want absorbed deep in my bones.

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