#yoga

I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: "Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight feeling." Fran was adjusting someone across the room. She had a way of looking like a thoughtful seamstress when she made adjustments: an inch let out here, a seam straightened there, and everything would be just right. She might as well have had pins tucked between her lips and a tape measure around her neck. Without missing a beat or looking up she said, "Oh, that's fear. Try the pose again." Fear. I hadn't even known it was there. ↗

— Claire Dederer

#yoga #yoga-practice #life

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#beliefs #come #how #lot #own

The undiscovered is not far away. It’s not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before. Reality is constant creation and destruction, and in this constant change is something unborn and undying, something that cannot be approached through the known or the past. It isn’t seen through striving to become something based on ideals stemming from former experiences. It comes to that which is being, not striving. In this state of being in the moment, without the known, without knowing at all, with neither past nor future, is a space that is not filled with time. And in this space, the undiscovered and ever-changing moment exists—a moment containing all possibilities, the totality of existence, absolute reality. Reality is now, and in the now, we can experience the true nature of the universe and the universal mind. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#meditation #nakamura-tempu #now #present-moment #reality

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world. ↗

— Leza Lowitz

#poetry #yoga #yoga

I had discovered something; there was a pleasure in becoming something new. You could will yourself into a fresh shape. Now all I had to do was figure out how to do it out there, in my life. ↗

— Claire Dederer

#yoga #change

Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we’re forced to undergo the event twice—once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#meditation #past #present #worrying #yoga

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos. ↗

— Osho

#discipline #inner-self #inspirational #osho #yoga

Feed Everyone ↗

— Neem Karoli Baba

#personal-transformation #spiritual #yoga #inspirational

Define the perimeter of your life. Set it beyond the realm of possibility. Then from there begin to paint in between the lines. Use many colors and get into every possible nook and cranny. Don't erase a single thing. ↗

— Josh Blatter

#yoga-inspiration #inspirational

If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn’t work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#meditation #nakamura-tempu #negativity #potential #shin-shin-toitsu-do