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January 2019
every new beginning starts from some other’s beginning’s end.
in imageevery new beginning starts
from some other' s
beginning' s end.
from some other' s
beginning' s end.
in imageWhen you finally decide to quit
your job and follow your dreams
aa
uhes HÌVE
your job and follow your dreams
aa
uhes HÌVE
In some of the weirder corners of the yoga world, practice is said to create Amrita bindu— a sweet nectar that collects to bring about immortality.
According to tantric texts, it develops in the bindu chakra, found just under the cowlick. When awakened, this elixir of youth begins to drip down our throats.
As the great swedish chantuese @robynkonichiwa might say “come get your honey.” As we enter into 2019, I am filled with a great deal of excitement. It is time for growth— it is time for the Amrita to flow.
You know what they say... no mud, no lotus? Don’t you feel like 2018 has prepared us (well) to blossom?
@dcashtanga shifts to the @eatonworkshop this March.
High potency practice, individualized. Wanna know more? Comment below ⤵️
According to tantric texts, it develops in the bindu chakra, found just under the cowlick. When awakened, this elixir of youth begins to drip down our throats.
As the great swedish chantuese @robynkonichiwa might say “come get your honey.” As we enter into 2019, I am filled with a great deal of excitement. It is time for growth— it is time for the Amrita to flow.
You know what they say... no mud, no lotus? Don’t you feel like 2018 has prepared us (well) to blossom?
@dcashtanga shifts to the @eatonworkshop this March.
High potency practice, individualized. Wanna know more? Comment below ⤵️
h/t @josepharmstrongyoga
in imageNancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Taylor fighting before the House for HIV/
AIDS funding when no one else would.
HANPEEO
h/t @josepharmstrongyoga
AIDS funding when no one else would.
HANPEEO
h/t @josepharmstrongyoga
as a builder,
a farmer,
retreat center manager the yoga comes through Accommodations and food for only $20/day.
@suenodevida_ecu in Ecuador.
a farmer,
retreat center manager the yoga comes through Accommodations and food for only $20/day.
@suenodevida_ecu in Ecuador.
in imagethe
yoga comes
retreat
through
as
a builder,
a
farmer,
center manager
Accommodations and food for
only $20/day.
Csuenodevida
ecu
Ecuador.
in
yoga comes
retreat
through
as
a builder,
a
farmer,
center manager
Accommodations and food for
only $20/day.
Csuenodevida
ecu
Ecuador.
in
if you are an artist, yoga will come through in art and art will come through in yoga. @suenodevida_ecu lives this by example
in imageif you are an artist, yoga
will come through in art and
art will come through in
yoga.
@suenodevida ecu lives this
by example
will come through in art and
art will come through in
yoga.
@suenodevida ecu lives this
by example
This comes highly recommended for anyone who has been exposed to ashtanga and would like to deepen their relationship and/or expand their toolkit. Jen is an excellent teacher. Not sure about the format? as a recent student via internet, my mind has thoroughly changed about its capacity â there is so much potential. Sign up, and tell her I sent ya.
monkeying
around
around
I took a backbending class in Arambol with a guy named Balu yesterday.
I kept the “Jungle Book” references to myself because 1) I don’t always have to go for low hanging fruit and 2) he didn’t seem like the kind of guy that would find my nonsense funny.
(I always go for low hanging fruit 🍌🍌🍌)
Some of the best stuff in my movement arsenal comes from folks not at all associated with yoga: the wrist stretches i learned from the pole dancing folk, all the handstand stuff from the circus folk, and all the squat and strength stuff from my Olympic weightlifters— it’s all gold. Balu's class certainly wasn't Ashtanga by the numbers, but gosh it had some good stuff.
I'm at the part of my trip where I can’t wait to share what I’ve gleaned.
ps: I loved this Gorilla smoking a fat joint because he reminded me of the Gorilla Namaskar I’ve been teaching — not ‘cause of Balu! 😉
I kept the “Jungle Book” references to myself because 1) I don’t always have to go for low hanging fruit and 2) he didn’t seem like the kind of guy that would find my nonsense funny.
(I always go for low hanging fruit 🍌🍌🍌)
Some of the best stuff in my movement arsenal comes from folks not at all associated with yoga: the wrist stretches i learned from the pole dancing folk, all the handstand stuff from the circus folk, and all the squat and strength stuff from my Olympic weightlifters— it’s all gold. Balu's class certainly wasn't Ashtanga by the numbers, but gosh it had some good stuff.
I'm at the part of my trip where I can’t wait to share what I’ve gleaned.
ps: I loved this Gorilla smoking a fat joint because he reminded me of the Gorilla Namaskar I’ve been teaching — not ‘cause of Balu! 😉
in image4-5.2 at Love Temple
by Fabienne Gonzalez Wtsp:+33613058279
Indian phone: 8390096257
Tantra
SIND
QLC
wning
Body
ractice
rtful energie
Workshoo
- Paired tantra prattu
a Learning meditation in daily life
- Tantra through dance
Festival teachers:
mlia
FROM TH
TO THE H
a Sindhus
WApf
• BASE
DANCE GATHERINGS
fergotten
YLOBAL BEATS
ERFORMANCES
UNITY CELEBRATION
4.01 12.02
26.02
17-23 PM
12.03
FAR
E 24TH JAN
20:00
FT
* ABAMBOL BEACTP®
by Fabienne Gonzalez Wtsp:+33613058279
Indian phone: 8390096257
Tantra
SIND
QLC
wning
Body
ractice
rtful energie
Workshoo
- Paired tantra prattu
a Learning meditation in daily life
- Tantra through dance
Festival teachers:
mlia
FROM TH
TO THE H
a Sindhus
WApf
• BASE
DANCE GATHERINGS
fergotten
YLOBAL BEATS
ERFORMANCES
UNITY CELEBRATION
4.01 12.02
26.02
17-23 PM
12.03
FAR
E 24TH JAN
20:00
FT
* ABAMBOL BEACTP®
14 years ago.
everyday is mlk day
in imagecryscan1o
••.
"May I stress the need for
courageous, intelligent, and
dedicated leadership... Leaders of
sound integrity. Leaders not in love
with publicity, but in love with
justice. Leaders not in love with
money, but in love with humanity.
Leaders who can subject their
particular egos to the greatness of
the cause."
MARTIN LUTHER KING
everyday is mlk day
••.
"May I stress the need for
courageous, intelligent, and
dedicated leadership... Leaders of
sound integrity. Leaders not in love
with publicity, but in love with
justice. Leaders not in love with
money, but in love with humanity.
Leaders who can subject their
particular egos to the greatness of
the cause."
MARTIN LUTHER KING
everyday is mlk day
in imageY≤AS
headed into yoga like
working the edges
feels great.
last but not alone.
This is accurate.
Values Over Rules
When I first started teaching Ashtanga Yoga in the Mysore style, I took a trusted counselors advice and established boundaries around my student - teacher relationships that were as close to water tight as i could get. I wanted a total lack of porousness to ensure I was acting from an ethical and honest place.
Like many things, this served me well until it didn’t. My first apprentice’s Shala turns two this year— and I am oh so very proud of her. As i understand it, my highest aim as a teacher is to watch my student grow until one day they eclipse me. And well, ol’ girl is giving me one heckuva run for my money!
As @livelyogini has grown, she has inspired a higher excellence in me, just as I have hoped to do for her. The symbiosis of the relationship is one of my greatest personal and professional joys.
Part of that includes a necessary shift in hierarchical overtones— she is my dear friend and trusted counsel now. In the grand scheme of things, it means that rules have to change as paradigms shift— and because none of this is Permanent, it is highly anticipatable that rules absolutely will.
No, rules don’t last forever.
But values might. Like love, compassion, valor, integrity, and friendliness. But hierarchies? They’re meant to crumble.
In @dcashtanga ’s most recent newsletter (are you signed up??) i shared a bit about how flowers have a capacity to hear bees, and how yoga relates. The truth is, some days youre the flower and some days you’re the bee— and we’re all just participating in making honey.
@ashtanganation is one heckuva hive—
Amrita Bindu Upanishad
18. After studying the Vedas (that is recorded knowledge) the intelligent person who is solely intent on acquiring knowledge and realization should discard the Vedas altogether, like the man who discards husk to obtain rice?
19. The milk is always white even though cows are of diverse colures. The intelligent person regards Jnana (learning) as the milk and the many branched Vedas as the cows.
20. Like butter hidden in milk, pure consciousness resides in every being. That ought to be constantly churned out by the churning rod of the mind
When I first started teaching Ashtanga Yoga in the Mysore style, I took a trusted counselors advice and established boundaries around my student - teacher relationships that were as close to water tight as i could get. I wanted a total lack of porousness to ensure I was acting from an ethical and honest place.
Like many things, this served me well until it didn’t. My first apprentice’s Shala turns two this year— and I am oh so very proud of her. As i understand it, my highest aim as a teacher is to watch my student grow until one day they eclipse me. And well, ol’ girl is giving me one heckuva run for my money!
As @livelyogini has grown, she has inspired a higher excellence in me, just as I have hoped to do for her. The symbiosis of the relationship is one of my greatest personal and professional joys.
Part of that includes a necessary shift in hierarchical overtones— she is my dear friend and trusted counsel now. In the grand scheme of things, it means that rules have to change as paradigms shift— and because none of this is Permanent, it is highly anticipatable that rules absolutely will.
No, rules don’t last forever.
But values might. Like love, compassion, valor, integrity, and friendliness. But hierarchies? They’re meant to crumble.
In @dcashtanga ’s most recent newsletter (are you signed up??) i shared a bit about how flowers have a capacity to hear bees, and how yoga relates. The truth is, some days youre the flower and some days you’re the bee— and we’re all just participating in making honey.
@ashtanganation is one heckuva hive—
Amrita Bindu Upanishad
18. After studying the Vedas (that is recorded knowledge) the intelligent person who is solely intent on acquiring knowledge and realization should discard the Vedas altogether, like the man who discards husk to obtain rice?
19. The milk is always white even though cows are of diverse colures. The intelligent person regards Jnana (learning) as the milk and the many branched Vedas as the cows.
20. Like butter hidden in milk, pure consciousness resides in every being. That ought to be constantly churned out by the churning rod of the mind
⬅️ beach is
this way
this way
📸 circa 2016/17
Iâm so thrilled to have DC Ashtanga in residency at the Eaton Workshop. While we donât launch until the first full week of March, look at their programmingâ powerful, impacting, and aligned:
“Of Fruits, For Fruits, By Fruits”
Meet Sean, fashion designer
Owner of @shoopdooplondon
Scotish by birth, salesman by trade, and unlikely bard by any account— the man has a story to tell and an outfit to sell you. I should know— he sold me my favorite items to wear this past year: my collection of fruit hats.
Its true, It wasn’t his gregariousness that caught my attention so much as the shirts. Yes indeed, the fabulousness of a crisp white shirt, with cotton candy colored flamingos in replicated pattern, left my mouth agape. Sean, with more wry than whiskey, wouldn’t mind telling you thats exactly how he’d like me to leave it, either.
Sean’s sense of humor feels to me informed by curated intellect and appreciation for the absurd— the first thing he said to me when i walked into his stall at the Wednesday market last week, after “Do I know you?” was “would you like some cold Hamberders?”
His sauciness and honesty extends beyond an occasional dick joke to the changing nature of world politics, Goan-grown scandal, and the challenges queers face across the globe in general. We talked fabric shopping in Thailand, hat production in Delhi, and how to find love when youre not manning a typical shop.
Sean’s designs can be found under his label “Shoop Doop”, available online. During the Goan tourist season, he has a shop in Ashwem Beach. He also makes the market rounds—the Saturday Night Market in Arpora, the Wednesday Market in Anjuna, and even one at the new Friday market at Hilltop in Vagator called “the Goa collective.”
Meet Sean, fashion designer
Owner of @shoopdooplondon
Scotish by birth, salesman by trade, and unlikely bard by any account— the man has a story to tell and an outfit to sell you. I should know— he sold me my favorite items to wear this past year: my collection of fruit hats.
Its true, It wasn’t his gregariousness that caught my attention so much as the shirts. Yes indeed, the fabulousness of a crisp white shirt, with cotton candy colored flamingos in replicated pattern, left my mouth agape. Sean, with more wry than whiskey, wouldn’t mind telling you thats exactly how he’d like me to leave it, either.
Sean’s sense of humor feels to me informed by curated intellect and appreciation for the absurd— the first thing he said to me when i walked into his stall at the Wednesday market last week, after “Do I know you?” was “would you like some cold Hamberders?”
His sauciness and honesty extends beyond an occasional dick joke to the changing nature of world politics, Goan-grown scandal, and the challenges queers face across the globe in general. We talked fabric shopping in Thailand, hat production in Delhi, and how to find love when youre not manning a typical shop.
Sean’s designs can be found under his label “Shoop Doop”, available online. During the Goan tourist season, he has a shop in Ashwem Beach. He also makes the market rounds—the Saturday Night Market in Arpora, the Wednesday Market in Anjuna, and even one at the new Friday market at Hilltop in Vagator called “the Goa collective.”
and then there were momos
missing 💓 bae missing bae
in imageNO DRAMA
LLAMA &
missing
bae
LLAMA &
missing
bae
shawarma in kuboos shawarma in kuboos
winters a beach winters a beach
sparkles.
in imagesparkles
sparkles.
sparkles.
in imageGuardianation
Dope.
sundaze sundaze sundaze
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