One year ago (August 1st, 2019), I lost my teacher and friend, Jonathan Austman. To reflect, I wrote up an essay on my food-ish blog, www.twohollowlegs.com.
Feel free to have a read.
Tag: yoga
July livestream SOUND BATH – join us on YouTube!
Join us for our next livestream sound bath on Tuesday, July 21st (7:30-8:30 PM CDT / 8:30-9:30 PM EDT)!
Take the time to mark July’s new moon – an excellent time to clear space for newness and establish intentions for the future.
A sound bath is a meditation on sound: we practise awakening to sound, and rooting ourselves in sound. You may be sitting or lying down. Listening through headphones can enhance the experience, but it is not necessary.
You will be emailed a private link to gain access to the livestream on the day of the sound bath (July 21st). When you click on the link, it’ll open up in your internet browser or YouTube app, depending on the device you are viewing it on (computer/tablet/smartphone). The email will be sent to the email address you use during the payment process. Please ensure you enter a valid email address.
As before, 10% of all proceeds will be donated to A Dollar A Day Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting frontline mental health and addictions programs across Canada. Thank you for making a difference.
Sorry, no refunds. Please read our terms here.
Rinse and repeat: an Ashtanga yoga practice video.
To help with navigating these turbulent times, our second online yoga video offering is a 60 minute Ashtanga practice.
Ashtanga is a flowing style of yoga, particularly distinguishable by its set sequence of postures. A set sequence asks us to surrender to what is, instead of running away or avoiding what is uncomfortable.
When you keep practising this set, you discover that there is a lot of power in repetition: the opportunity to find depth and subtlety alongside comfort in the familiar, as well as the opportunity to reflect on how you change on a daily, monthly and seasonal basis. As we observe these changes, nothing needs to be fixed, or pushed away; instead, we learn to hold space for what’s arising and falling. Through this, we grow our resilience and compassion.
As the COVID-19 pandemic situation continues to evolve, what will carry us forward to an uncertain future, with as much grace as possible, is to continue returning to tried-and-true methods that help us to feel grounded.
Let us endeavour to root down into our feet, feel our breathing, and come back to a practice of embodiment that can offer an anchor in these turbulent times.
Things keep changing. Fear, paranoia, grief, and frustration – these are normal. At the same time, there can be joy, gratitude, kindness, and community.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
One breath at a time.
We are in this together.
Dana is the practice of donation – and was the traditional way that yoga teachers received financial support. I know a handful of contemporary teachers that maintain this practice and rely heavily on dana – turns out that I am currently one of them!
If you find value in this offering, and you are in a position to give, please consider donating by clicking the button below. I am grateful for your support and interest in what’s going on in my tiny corner of the universe; thank you in advance for your support.
Take good care.
Keep calm and Yin Yang: an online yoga practice video.
It’s here – a free, online 60-minute yoga class for you to watch and practise along to at any time. I decided to do a Yin Yang practice to honour the Spring Equinox, and its equal balance of light and dark. While the world is undergoing a turbulent time, the sun still rises and sets, and in times of change, let us work to balance ourselves, and to ground into what is right in front of us.
Dana is the practice of donation – and was the traditional way that yoga teachers received financial support. I know a handful of contemporary teachers that maintain this practice and rely heavily on dana – turns out that I am currently one of them!
If you find value in this offering, and you are in a position to give, please consider donating by clicking the button below. I am grateful for your support and interest in what’s going on in my tiny corner of the universe; thank you in advance for your support.
Keep on practising, keep on building your resilience, keep on being kind.