Leoniefityoga

08/10/2023

My favorite passage from Og Mandino’s book The Greatest Salesman in the world… and yes I’m really not good posting here…

08/03/2023

It’s International Women’s Day! Here’s to progress, equality and support for one another. ‘Let’s salute bravery, perseverance and grace of women all over the world….’

29/10/2022

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I, I took the one less traveled
by, and that has made all the
difference."

🍁 Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
📸 Instagram wildwoodblessing

29/10/2022

31/07/2022

The secret of a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart . Anthony T Hincks

25/07/2022

Halima Makda

25/06/2022

Maintain your drishti/ focus so that even if a fly sits on your nose, you will not be distracted

21/06/2022

In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me is an invincible summer. Alber Camus.Today is not only the winter solstice… but it is also International Yoga Day.

17/06/2022

A gentle reminder yoga is not a religion or a belief system. It is a practice and a discipline. Yoga is for every one. Love ❤️ and light. 💡

17/06/2022

This goes out to all the yogis who touched my life in the most beautiful way and the yogis whose lives I may have touched.

So when FB asks what’s on my mind?

Maybe what’s not on my mind….I’m posting here an iconic mean spirited picture that was sent to me personally yesterday. This because I practice yoga. Yoga the most beautiful practice… the one that opens your mind, frees you from hatred, judgement and discrimination.

Every one knows yoga is important to me. I practice it and teach it and will remain a life long scholar (sisya) of yoga. And thank you to my yoga teacher for teaching me yoga and the tenets of yoga. I will be forever grateful to you, what you taught me and how you inspired my life. I belong to the YOUNG YOGA INSTITUTE, a credible institute based on Christian principles. I teach yoga to all people of all religions including Christians.

It started with an irresponsible TikTok post so inhumane and uninformed. My daughter and I are the only people who practice yoga in my family and when I see such a post I will respond to it.

So I responded… my exact response… this is poorly informed and harmful …trying to curb the spread of uneducated misinformation which is neither accurate or true.

And the response directly to me… yoga is demonic!!!! Wow!!! How do you have an opinion on a practice you know nothing about. So upsetting and so hurtful. ‘Simple stretching’ is different to yoga. Another poorly informed input.Yoga is not even about stretching let alone simple stretching.

The word yoga means to combine, to bring together, to join…note… not to stretch!!!

Yoga brings together body, mind and soul. It is not a religion. It is a practice and a discipline. And I am highly qualified ( yes actual paper qualifications - internationally qualified- I can teach anywhere in this entire world ) to talk about it. Yoga is a dynamic, internal experience which integrates body, mind, senses and intelligence with the self. There is no ego in yoga. It is a selfless practice and I feel so sad that it was attacked in the way it was. With ego and judgement and cruelty- everything yoga is not.

Yoga is a practice that opens your mind, makes you less judgmental and more accepting to others, more loving towards all beings. It’s about living with awareness and care for others, not judgement and discrimination.BKS IYENGAR says yoga is for everyone. He says it’s a light which, once lit, will never dim.

This picture was later deleted by the sender on my private chat and there was a contradiction layed out of what was meant. Unfortunately this picture is etched on my mind. And it will sit here on my page for as long as I like. My passion and practice that I studied hard towards was undermined and discredited.

I wish you all a beautiful day filled with yogic light and love, gratitude and peace… but also can I ask that you close all the sewage pits just in case ….

Namasté.

11/05/2022

This tiny tot yogi was a whole eleven years old yesterday. Look at that half Lotus and the Mudra man. She could say Namasté and chant Om when she was just a little elf. May your life be happy, peaceful and free from obstacles.