Ahimsa Life

Ahimsa Life Sharing my passion for yoga with you in individual and group yoga classes, workshops and on-line. Always be mindful when moving
in and out of postures.

Yoga has helped me live well with multiple sclerosis for over ten years. I am blessed to have the opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with others who live with MS. Our yoga practice is based on the yama, Ahimsa, developing compassion, love for yourself and others and Embodied awareness, discovering your body and the healing energy of the universe by following breath, listening to sen

sations and visualization. May the concepts of ahimsa and embodied awareness guide your yoga practice. Guidelines:
1) It is best to practice on an empty stomach as the body functions with a lot more ease if it is
not busy digesting food. Drinking lots of water throughout the day aids in the body’s flexibility.
2) Arrive 10-15 minutes early to allow time to sign-in and get set-up. If you arrive once class
has begun, please wait outside until the class has completed the opening centering exercise.
3) It is best to wear comfortable loose clothing, as you will be moving around and in many
different positions. BAREFEET will be a necessity to get the proper benefits of the class.
4) Please do only the postures that feels comfortable for you. If you feel any pain or discomfort, stop immediately.
5) It is always best to check with your doctor before commencing any exercise program.
6) For the comfort of others, please do not wear perfume or other heavy scents.
7) If you MUST leave class early, please do a few minutes of your own Savasana (corpse
pose) so that you have had a balanced class. Please leave before the rest of the class begins
Savasana so as not to disrupt their rest time.
8 We highly recommend purchasing your own mat for sanitary and health reasons.
9) Please turn OFF all cellular phones and pagers before entering the studio. I am not my body, mind or feelings
I am not sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch, I am not the senses
My body is but an outer covering for my soul, which is pure and perfect
I am boundless, limitless, the deathless self, ever free
I am the eternal present

25/07/2025

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”
L.R. Knost

Johanna Harmon - Silk Robe.

My ahimsa life journey has been influenced by buddha’s teachings
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To be aware all you have to do is give attention. To be able to do that you have to learn the skill of observation. So if you are distracted, sad, suffering ...

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Quick practice that can be used anytime, anywhere

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love Bruce Lipton - The Biology of Consciousness
exciting explanation of the “mind’s” control over our health and how WE can change our minds

Want to hear more from Bruce Lipton and other Hay House authors? Subscribe to our channel ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYTGWaEBUiCYhCESRwu8loA and tur...

To get respect, we must give respect. True, no matter the age!
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There’s a clear line between earning your child’s respect and simply expecting it because you’re the parent. This line lies in the habits we exhibit. Our kids pick up on these habits, and as they grow, they either respect us more or less because of them. If you want your child to respect you a...

25/08/2024

To inhabit your life like it is a medicine garden.

To harvest rich goodness from your path, you need to sow the seeds.

For this garden, this wild plot isn't just there waiting for you to stumble upon it one day.

The golden seeds that will bring it to you are inside you, waiting for you to be the change, waiting for you to awaken, waiting for you to stop creating patios in your heart instead of wild forests.

These seeds of true sight, self love, strength, healing and growth are wanting to be planted, watered and fed.

Your body, your life, is waiting to be rewilded, away from the concrete mess, towards instead, life giving w**ds and birch trees, that will break down the rubble and hardness of self despair, destruction, depression and shame.

So start to feel and scatter these medicine seeds that have been kept so safe within your bones.
Water them with honesty, love and care.

Create good soil and compost from what you no longer need to cling onto.

Whisper words of self love and forgiveness to your flesh, give out a true and real sense of kindness for oneself so those tender shoots will pick up on it, and know they can grow well in the protection of your heart.

Work each day at rewilding your inner landscape, letting the medicine grow and your heart become alive.

~ Brigit Anna McNeill
Brigit Anna McNeill

Art: Rima Staines, “Weed Wife”
Rima Staines - Artist
https://rimastaines.com/

25/08/2024

"The wise woman, the w**d wife, the curandera - whatever you want to call her, she is my inspiration. I recognize in her the need which each of us has to find strength from within ourselves: the need which each of us has to delve inside to uncover and develop the sources of our own belonging. To come to belong to this wide, wild Earth."

~ Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted
Sharon Blackie

www.sharonblackie.net

Art: Margot Datz, “Going to Seed”
Margot Datz Designs

25/08/2024

To lift your eyes to heaven when all men's eyes are on the ground, is not easy. To worship at the feet of the angels when all men worship only fame and riches, is not easy. But the most difficult of all is to think the thoughts of the angels, to speak the words of the angels, and to do as the angels do.
~Gospel of the Essenes

This morning’s learning … focusing on 6 targets to heal our wondrous human system 💖
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chilling inside, always listening and learning about our magnificent human bodies
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chilling inside, always listening and learning about our magnificent human bodies

Alex speaks with Dr. Perry Nickelston about the importance of the vagus nerve. They discuss:2:06 - What the vagus nerve is and the role it plays in health. 5...

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Fifteen years ago, when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, I felt hopeless, fearful, angry. I knew that if I was to not only survive but thrive, I had to find a way to peace, hope, love. I found yoga!

I began practicing the physical aspects of yoga (asana) to strengthen, tone, stretch; incorporating pranayama (breath and energy work) to heal; meditation for mental and emotional health; and perhaps most importantly the ancient philosophy of yoga for overall well-being. Yoga wasn’t about going to a studio for an hour a few times a week, I began living yoga one breath at a time.

As I studied the eight limbs of yoga thru ancient texts and modern day teachers, I was drawn to Ahimsa, the first Yama, (I think of the yamas and niyamas as Yoga’s ten commandments). Ahimsa in accordance to the Yoga Sutras of Pantajali, is living without harming, to live with love, kindness, empathy, compassion - from the HEART.

Join me on my journey. I am not my body, mind or feelings I am not sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch, I am not the senses My body is but an outer covering for my soul, which is pure and perfect I am boundless, limitless, the deathless self, ever free I am the eternal present