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16/09/2023

In Tibetan Buddhism, the concept is referred to as Nekkhama: to Renunciate. As you lay down and become enmeshed in quietude, the subtle realm becomes more pronounced and externalities sheathe away.

All that’s left is the beckoning will to draw inwards. Choosing a pentacle repose is a radical renunciation – a different way of being in the world: more refined.

It’s quite phenomenal to simplify and surrender enough to become unhinged from the normal turbulence your system learns to rely on. Without this preoccupation, you can learn to deeply love where you are right now.

11/09/2023

THE OBJECTIVE OF YIN.

A still, intentional embodiment practice helps to soothe the fluctuations of a cluttered mentality and release the binding grip of muscular stress. Yin is the format we may use to withdraw from normative patterning of stimulation and let all the energetic build-up of the daily debris find a way to percolate through the system and be effectively released.

Certain implications of stress emerge around the tops of the thighs and the bottom of the hip flexor – a critical fight or flight response when the system is in stress – and so a shape which lengthens the quadriceps and compresses the bottom insertion of the psoas is paramount to softening and widening the legs so we might settle into groundedness.

08/09/2023

The Buddha suggested that these 2 mind states are what fuel all internal struggles. Craving and aversion are at the root of our suffering.

Craving refers to our tendency to chase after sensual gratification. Craving occurs when we cling to something we want to remain unchanged, or when we wish something was here that is not. Craving is wanting what is not here right now.

Aversion, on the other hand, is not what wanting what is here now. When we resist, resent, recoil, attack. This is simply craving in reverse- clinging to what we wish or assume should happen instead.

Remember that the goal is to observe and pe*****te our patterns, observe their imprint on our neurology.

In a mindful life we are able to host the arrival of craving & aversion rather than become them. Observing them keeps them at arms length- upon observation you can’t stay enmeshed in the intoxicating pull of their narrative.

05/09/2023

Only a few days left to join the Autumn Cohort

Advanced Yin Yoga Teacher Training: 3 month virtual course
We begin September 7th.

Advanced Principles of the Five Elements Theory through Mindful Process & Inner Methods

Earth. Water. Fire. Metal. Wood.

30/08/2023

Yin Yoga is a stillness practice which is consciously engaging with the Chi body. It asks of us this: release your agenda of arriving somewhere specific and relish in the taste of awakening experience.

Can I wake up where I am in this shape, at this capacity, exactly as I am?

Self-love on the path of awakening: Advance Virtual Yin Yoga Teacher Training

3 month Virtual Course: September - November

Registration closes next week, link in bio to register.

25/08/2023

May we use this time to train in the essential inner methods of mindfulness, and recommit to our home practices, our routines and rituals, our Asana, our contemplations, our practice of non-attachment, of stillness.

Advanced Virtual Yin Yoga Teacher Training: a self-paced 3 month course of pre-recorded content, two weeks for each of the five elements

-earth water fire metal wood-
-3 pillars of practice-

plan for roughly 2-3 hrs per week

Join us this Autumn.

21/08/2023

The heart is responsible for the wisdom of what Buddha called the sublime states, or divine abodes. He suggested we constantly visit and dwell in particular attitudes, behavioral qualities and thought streams from the heart. ❤️

Instead of just waiting to be more loving, compassionate and forgiving, the suggestion is that we practice these particular qualities.

It’s something to be cultivated. Like a muscle, the heart realm must be exercised. Dwelling spaces we ritualistically return to. Strengthened because we’ve regularly conditioned it.

The more we visit these particular qualities, the more immersed in them we become. Fully saturated in them, we’ll stir up these attitudes and sink deep into the heart so that heart-informed living becomes spontaneous in our manifestation.

17/08/2023

“Through this course, I have become more confident in my physical/emotional/mental self. The lessons I have learn (especially the meditations) have added a whole new level to my classes and also the classes I am in as a student.

I feel that as an individual I am able to express my intentions with more care and stability. All I want in my life is to be able to share and receive with an open and non-judgmental mind. Understanding my suffering and evolution and those around me has helped me do this. There are many things to learn in the practice of yoga, especially philosophically, away from the movement.

Learning more about Hara has helped me flip perspective and deepened my knowledge in a way I didn’t know it could - thank you.”
— PRACTITIONER, AUSTRALIA

Join us inside the Advanced Yin Yoga Teacher Training, a 3 month virtual course dedicated to Advanced Principles of the Five Elements Theory through Mindful Process & Inner Methods.

Autumn Cohort: September 7 - November 30, 2023

16/08/2023

How to change your brain? By focusing your attention.

Awareness harnesses the power of neuroplasticity in specific circuits.   The focus of attention is like the scalpel that lets you remold the structure of the brain. Recent research shows where you focus attention activates the neurons that correlate with that activity.

So focus on breath- and you activate interoceptive focus. If you’re playing an instrument and you’re focusing your attention on your fingers on a piano- as you focus attention you activate those circuits, neurons fire together and become wired to create channels of patterns, traits, from a mindful state.
 Mindfulness, then, becomes easier & easier to return to.

08/08/2023

Registration Open: Advanced Yin Yoga Teacher Training
-Virtual 3 Month Course-

Advanced Principles of the Five Elements Theory through Mindful Process & Inner Methods

Five Elements: EARTH | WATER | FIRE | METAL | WOOD

Layering physical, emotional, energetic engagement to an immersive practice of the wisdom traditions we bow to.

Physical: Home of the Prana Vessel
Emotional: Home of the Dharma, Inner Methods & Mindfulness
Energetic: Home of the Hara & Chi Body

Autumn Cohort September - November, 2023
Link in bio to sign up!

04/08/2023

Yoga, in turn, teaches you that sensations rise to a peak and then fall.

Impermanence is key, you can anticipate the end of discomfort and strengthen your capacity to deal with distress.

In contrast to timeless ever present experience of trauma, physical sensations are transient and respond to slight shifts in thinking, breathing, and body position (asana). We can tolerate a great deal of discomfort when we know it’s transitory, and we can also tolerate more when we don’t resist uncomfortable sensations.

At the core of trauma recovery is self-awareness – becoming in touch with the inner landscape and ephemeral nature of sensation.

31/07/2023

“I never recognized the impact trauma had on my life, culminating in 3 years of chronic pain, 3 unnecessary surgeries, and emotional withdrawal. I was very new to practicing yoga and meditation - Kali's sessions were moving and such a transformative part of my life. I see my path now is to enable others to benefit from this whole healing experience”

This is the work. Make your life a meditation.

-Summer sale ends next month-
$100 off 3 pack private sessions with Kali valid through August

Link in bio to purchase your sessions & save.

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