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What moves you?
It's either something from the inside or something from the outside.
Real empowerment comes from using that which you already have to move in the direction you’d like to go.
It's you versus gravity. Muscles versus inertia. Egalitarianism versus classism. Equality versus marginalization. If your handstand isn't giving you the power to fight back against bigotry, what's the fucking point?
Like I said... What moves you?
It's either something from the inside or something from the outside.
Real empowerment comes from using that which you already have to move in the direction you’d like to go.
It's you versus gravity. Muscles versus inertia. Egalitarianism versus classism. Equality versus marginalization. If your handstand isn't giving you the power to fight back against bigotry, what's the fucking point?
Like I said... What moves you?
Book learning can only get you out of so many jams. But carrying water up a hill? That has value. And you know, Rhodes Scholars can dead lift more and more through periodization, just like anyone else. I may never be able to multiply fractions on the fly, but I can teach you to carry your own weight. Strong people are useful.
Join me this week:
Eaton Workshop
1201 K St NW
Wednesday 1:30
Thursday 1:30
hmu for passes if you haven't
Join me this week:
Eaton Workshop
1201 K St NW
Wednesday 1:30
Thursday 1:30
hmu for passes if you haven't
MERRY CHRISTMAS
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when you just
wake up, but
your bf is a
YOGI
when you just
wake up, but
your bf is a
YOGI
AHS: MJH
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AHS: MJH
AHS: MJH
in imageTHE LATINA IN ME IS AN EMBER THAT BLAZES FOREVER. – Sonia Sotomayor #SHETHEPEOPLE
#SHETHEPEOPLE
#SHETHEPEOPLE
Sometimes I like to look to see just to see if I can look. So glad to know that I still have a toe.
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THEY TWIST.
TRYING TO BE
CAPTAIN PLANCHET.
CAPTAIN PLANCHET.
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TRYING TO BE CAPTAIN PLANCHET. PLANCHE
TRYING TO BE CAPTAIN PLANCHET. PLANCHE
needs more reach around. (😈)
#nationalchristmastree -
no chill. just right. wildfire ornament on California's tree⬇️
no chill. just right. wildfire ornament on California's tree⬇️
in imageire ornament on ornia's tree⬇️ #nationalchristmastree - no chill. just right.
#nationalchristmastree - no chill. just right.
#nationalchristmastree - no chill. just right.
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omg
ho ho
#filame
merry christmas
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ho ho
#filame
merry christmas
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The power in "power yoga" comes from developing the ability to be skillful in one's action. This is what we're practicing. .
Do you see these blocks? They are just blocks. They are neither inherently good, nor bad. They can foster strength just as easily as they foster self limiting beliefs. They are simply “building blocks” without objective— that which is being built is specific to the individual using them. I have heard others say differently. I am always wary of someone who tries to make their experience my experience. .
In practice, very early on, it looks like the aim is to make a shape.... that the ability to make a posture is the skill of yoga... and i dare say, at first, it is. But I would also posit that this kind of idea is somewhat limiting of the deep potential this practice has for developing a cornucopia of other desirable skills, including the skill of self realization. .
When others tell you that practice must be this way or that, do you wonder why? The Ashtanga Yoga practice is so inclusive and vast, why should we be limiting of the tools we can collect? Why should we limit our own resourcefulness, in fact our very own skillfulness?
.
What if the skill we are working on in practice is taking a step back without a sense of failure? How might we be able to foster out of the box thinking, more expansive thought?
.
What of the skill related to taking a step forward without a sense of completionism? How can we view the means as the ends instead of the ends as a goal. .
What if the skill of deep empathy? How can we relate our body to privilege? .
What of the skill of recognizing sameness without ignoring difference? And how about it’s inverted sister, honoring difference without ignoring sameness?
.
When you see these blocks, do you see an effort at universal oneness, weakness, or effort at compassion? In my understanding of yoga, they are exactly what you make of them. .
Better make it good.
Do you see these blocks? They are just blocks. They are neither inherently good, nor bad. They can foster strength just as easily as they foster self limiting beliefs. They are simply “building blocks” without objective— that which is being built is specific to the individual using them. I have heard others say differently. I am always wary of someone who tries to make their experience my experience. .
In practice, very early on, it looks like the aim is to make a shape.... that the ability to make a posture is the skill of yoga... and i dare say, at first, it is. But I would also posit that this kind of idea is somewhat limiting of the deep potential this practice has for developing a cornucopia of other desirable skills, including the skill of self realization. .
When others tell you that practice must be this way or that, do you wonder why? The Ashtanga Yoga practice is so inclusive and vast, why should we be limiting of the tools we can collect? Why should we limit our own resourcefulness, in fact our very own skillfulness?
.
What if the skill we are working on in practice is taking a step back without a sense of failure? How might we be able to foster out of the box thinking, more expansive thought?
.
What of the skill related to taking a step forward without a sense of completionism? How can we view the means as the ends instead of the ends as a goal. .
What if the skill of deep empathy? How can we relate our body to privilege? .
What of the skill of recognizing sameness without ignoring difference? And how about it’s inverted sister, honoring difference without ignoring sameness?
.
When you see these blocks, do you see an effort at universal oneness, weakness, or effort at compassion? In my understanding of yoga, they are exactly what you make of them. .
Better make it good.
I wish I could give out Ashtanga Yoga merit badges— today’s would be “I was kind to myself. ”
Practicing yoga with a contented mindset matters a great deal— really, what we’re doing on our mats is exploring our inside world to find a place where we can be self-satisfied. Cause you know, there isn’t any person out there that can satisfy you except you.
.
In order to do that work, we’ve also gotta maintain enthusiasm and heat around practice. Balancing that with our own self-satisfaction is hard— how are we to want to improve while also feeling like we’re golden just as we are?
.
By identifying the kind of satisfaction and the kind of work that makes us feel more and more free. The kind that doesn’t make us suffer more. The kind that helps feel satisfied and enthusiastic not just in practice but in our life.
.
In DC, a lot of folks take a push-hard get-results mentality to their work and their personal lives. They’re so miserable and don’t know why. They don’t want to be. So they push harder in all the ways— including on their mat. Maybe it’s not just dc.
.
What’s sort of funny/poignant/ironic to me is that the place in which folks could stand to push extra hard is that whole “being kind to yourself” angle. Laying off from pushing so damn hard is actually way harder than literally pushing hard— and it builds a ton more heat and breeds a ton more joy, contentment, and cleanliness of mindstates.
.
But doing the less “hard” thing (even when it brings them all the deep goods folks want way down inside) is so impossible that people push-push-push until they break. And then they wear their wounds as though they were honorifics on a sash. What if we could bring that same intensity to our self-compassion?
Practicing yoga with a contented mindset matters a great deal— really, what we’re doing on our mats is exploring our inside world to find a place where we can be self-satisfied. Cause you know, there isn’t any person out there that can satisfy you except you.
.
In order to do that work, we’ve also gotta maintain enthusiasm and heat around practice. Balancing that with our own self-satisfaction is hard— how are we to want to improve while also feeling like we’re golden just as we are?
.
By identifying the kind of satisfaction and the kind of work that makes us feel more and more free. The kind that doesn’t make us suffer more. The kind that helps feel satisfied and enthusiastic not just in practice but in our life.
.
In DC, a lot of folks take a push-hard get-results mentality to their work and their personal lives. They’re so miserable and don’t know why. They don’t want to be. So they push harder in all the ways— including on their mat. Maybe it’s not just dc.
.
What’s sort of funny/poignant/ironic to me is that the place in which folks could stand to push extra hard is that whole “being kind to yourself” angle. Laying off from pushing so damn hard is actually way harder than literally pushing hard— and it builds a ton more heat and breeds a ton more joy, contentment, and cleanliness of mindstates.
.
But doing the less “hard” thing (even when it brings them all the deep goods folks want way down inside) is so impossible that people push-push-push until they break. And then they wear their wounds as though they were honorifics on a sash. What if we could bring that same intensity to our self-compassion?
It takes
a village. @holly.yogs.lightly
a village. @holly.yogs.lightly
@eatonworkshop
November 2018
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more legs
than a bucket
of chicken
more legs
than a bucket
of chicken
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Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga
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Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga
2214 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria, Virginia 22301
Tickets
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About
Discussion
Why the shapes, and how does that lead to self realization?
We construct shapes and patterns with our bodies to hone in on the ever-shifting nature of the mind.
Because somewhere inside of each of us is something unmoving and infinite. And only by watching that which shifts can we begin to hone in on that which doesn’t.
It is with these bodies (and brave, tenacious wills) that we create a sacred space for internalization— for observing the profoundly wild inner landscape — and take a stab at making sense of it all, and finding stillness in it.
So how do we find that which doesn’t change? We use our resources: a body that feels, a mind that discerns, and a heart that senses the abode of that unmoving, unchanging thing— infinite and luminous.
Our true self.
The paradox of course, is that as brightly as our god-like infinite, unlimited self shines, we are incapable of looking directly at it... a reminder of the great sense of humor the universe possesses.
And so, we find mirrors. In our friends, our spouses, our teachers, and that very nice cashier lady at Whole Foods. And, of course, our Postural practice. ..
** Drop in classes at the Eaton Workshop, 1201 K St NW
Tues 12pm- Wed 1:30 -Thur 130
**
Workshops this weekend at @mindthemat **
Mysore daily with @dcashtanga at @yogadragons
We construct shapes and patterns with our bodies to hone in on the ever-shifting nature of the mind.
Because somewhere inside of each of us is something unmoving and infinite. And only by watching that which shifts can we begin to hone in on that which doesn’t.
It is with these bodies (and brave, tenacious wills) that we create a sacred space for internalization— for observing the profoundly wild inner landscape — and take a stab at making sense of it all, and finding stillness in it.
So how do we find that which doesn’t change? We use our resources: a body that feels, a mind that discerns, and a heart that senses the abode of that unmoving, unchanging thing— infinite and luminous.
Our true self.
The paradox of course, is that as brightly as our god-like infinite, unlimited self shines, we are incapable of looking directly at it... a reminder of the great sense of humor the universe possesses.
And so, we find mirrors. In our friends, our spouses, our teachers, and that very nice cashier lady at Whole Foods. And, of course, our Postural practice. ..
** Drop in classes at the Eaton Workshop, 1201 K St NW
Tues 12pm- Wed 1:30 -Thur 130
**
Workshops this weekend at @mindthemat **
Mysore daily with @dcashtanga at @yogadragons
Yo! I’m a cyber monday!!
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Check mindthemat.com
Promo community
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55 minute
vinyasa class link coming soon filmed
@eatonworkshop
vinyasa class link coming soon filmed
@eatonworkshop
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general fitness update.
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sitting in
the eye of
the storm
the eye of
the storm
night work.
back bending — safely.
another day at the office with @emerymargaret (listen to that breath! wow!)
ho ho ho ho ho
in imageA DRAG QUEEN CHRISTMAS THE NAUGHTY TOUR NOV 18 8 PM
thanks for the fade @michaelgeovanni
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thanks for the fade
@michaelgeovanni
thanks for the fade
@michaelgeovanni
coach is unimpressed coach is unimpressed.
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Saturday recap Saturday recap.
Virañci — he who creates.
Kinda looks like rain cloud to me 🤷🏻♂️ This posture comes in the middle of the middle of the third series. After having completed some major arm balancing and deep twists, this guy has you work with this set-up three different ways— seated up right in prayer, in a bound arm position, and then in an arm balance.
This is the third aspect of the A part of the posture. The B part gets weirder.
Next week I start creating and holding space for creation at the @eatonworkshop. Classes are $11, and I’m beyond excited to show you guys the space.
Classes this week:
Tuesday
12-1
Wednesday
1:30-2:30
Kinda looks like rain cloud to me 🤷🏻♂️ This posture comes in the middle of the middle of the third series. After having completed some major arm balancing and deep twists, this guy has you work with this set-up three different ways— seated up right in prayer, in a bound arm position, and then in an arm balance.
This is the third aspect of the A part of the posture. The B part gets weirder.
Next week I start creating and holding space for creation at the @eatonworkshop. Classes are $11, and I’m beyond excited to show you guys the space.
Classes this week:
Tuesday
12-1
Wednesday
1:30-2:30
attitude matters
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attitude matters
Reffons
attitude matters
#friendshipfridays @livelyogini
#friendshipfridays @xing_xing_kai #fbf
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#friendshipfridays
Cxing xing kai
#friendshipfridays
Cxing xing kai
New Classes!! 3 new days to catch me, at my first regular public drop-in classes in over a year.
Join me at the hippest new hotel in the city with the MOST fabulous and chill yoga room— the Eaton Workshop:
Tuesday:
12-1
Wednesday:
1:30-2:30
5:30-6:30p
Thursday:
1:30-2:30
Classes are $11!
Join me at the hippest new hotel in the city with the MOST fabulous and chill yoga room— the Eaton Workshop:
Tuesday:
12-1
Wednesday:
1:30-2:30
5:30-6:30p
Thursday:
1:30-2:30
Classes are $11!
another day at the office @madeline.miskie
friendship.
taking on
saturday
like
saturday
like
sometimes I
hit a wall. thanks,
@davidgarriguesyoga
hit a wall. thanks,
@davidgarriguesyoga
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sometimes I
hit a wall.
thanks,
@davidgarriguesyoga
sometimes I
hit a wall.
thanks,
@davidgarriguesyoga
wild friday
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wild friday
Wanna work on leveling up your assisting game in the yoga room?
Im gonna spend three weeks (nov 13, 20, 27) at @yogadragons sharing a ton of my practical experience on putting together a usable schema for approaching practitioners-- and provide space for everyone to get practical hands on experience.
I'm keeping the numbers tight so that everyone has an opportunity to interface a ton. You can expect lively discussion and small group hands-on work.
Link in bio!
Im gonna spend three weeks (nov 13, 20, 27) at @yogadragons sharing a ton of my practical experience on putting together a usable schema for approaching practitioners-- and provide space for everyone to get practical hands on experience.
I'm keeping the numbers tight so that everyone has an opportunity to interface a ton. You can expect lively discussion and small group hands-on work.
Link in bio!
bakasana
control
is
hot control
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hot control
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put your
BACK
into it
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BACK
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this has to stop.
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this has to stop.
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this has to stop.
Not DC
Wine Country + Virginia is for Lovers
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+
Vrginia is far Lavers
+
Vrginia is far Lavers
Fam. Sundays at @dcashtanga
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Kapotasana: Two Ways
Here are two different ways of approaching Kaptoasana, both with my student Madeline. In the first part, I'm functioning as a support structure both physically and mentally for her. I’m a big ole prop. Because Kapo was relatively new for her, working hands on together was super helpful, as sometimes going to scary places is easier with a friend.
In the second, Madeline is going about Kapo in a hands-off way, using a prop set-up (we use all kinds of different setups at @dcashtanga). Over the last few months, Madeline has become more confident and capable, so she can feel where she really is more effectively. She’s learned how to work on her own and it shows.
Modern postural yoga uses the body as a reference point for understanding the deeper dimensions of insight practice-- like the ability to internalize the sense and focus, allowing for meditation to come on line. An effective posture builds strength and flexibility-- so that you can work in a non harming way; it calms the nervous system-- building distress tolerance; it also works systematically with other postures to unlock certain understandings-- like a physical crossword puzzle keeping the mind and the body sharp.
The thing with these "bigger postures" is that everyone has their own set of limitations-- both real and perceived-- and working with a good assist or prop setup helps us move from the unreal to the real. That is gooooood yoga, right there.
In the Mysore room, we teach yoga that allows for autonomy and agency. Teachers aren't put on pedestals, and theres no heirachy-- everyone can practice, and even better, folks learn how to practice on their own.
This November, I'm teaching a workshop series on assisting. Over the course of this series, we'll go over the philosophical and the practical of assisting in a yoga room. Participants will learn how see bodies and construct an approach that teaches using voice, intention, and touch. A good assist can offer guidance, make corrections, and sometimes even help with adjustments that a practitioner may not be able to make on their own-- so that they may learn how to *do it on their own!* The link's in the bio.
Here are two different ways of approaching Kaptoasana, both with my student Madeline. In the first part, I'm functioning as a support structure both physically and mentally for her. I’m a big ole prop. Because Kapo was relatively new for her, working hands on together was super helpful, as sometimes going to scary places is easier with a friend.
In the second, Madeline is going about Kapo in a hands-off way, using a prop set-up (we use all kinds of different setups at @dcashtanga). Over the last few months, Madeline has become more confident and capable, so she can feel where she really is more effectively. She’s learned how to work on her own and it shows.
Modern postural yoga uses the body as a reference point for understanding the deeper dimensions of insight practice-- like the ability to internalize the sense and focus, allowing for meditation to come on line. An effective posture builds strength and flexibility-- so that you can work in a non harming way; it calms the nervous system-- building distress tolerance; it also works systematically with other postures to unlock certain understandings-- like a physical crossword puzzle keeping the mind and the body sharp.
The thing with these "bigger postures" is that everyone has their own set of limitations-- both real and perceived-- and working with a good assist or prop setup helps us move from the unreal to the real. That is gooooood yoga, right there.
In the Mysore room, we teach yoga that allows for autonomy and agency. Teachers aren't put on pedestals, and theres no heirachy-- everyone can practice, and even better, folks learn how to practice on their own.
This November, I'm teaching a workshop series on assisting. Over the course of this series, we'll go over the philosophical and the practical of assisting in a yoga room. Participants will learn how see bodies and construct an approach that teaches using voice, intention, and touch. A good assist can offer guidance, make corrections, and sometimes even help with adjustments that a practitioner may not be able to make on their own-- so that they may learn how to *do it on their own!* The link's in the bio.
October 2018
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our plane had caught fire and they dropped us in Texas instead of Mexico. #tbt 26.
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coming in November to @yogadragons Tuesdays @ 730 3 weeks.
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heart openers with friends.
in imageDARE YOU
😍
in imageNO CANDY FOR BIGOTED CHILDREN
if your child's costume promotes:
Poor
Shaming
Building
a wall
batıng
Disorders
Fat
Gambling
Shaming
Systemic
Big Pharma
Abuse of power
Treason
*90s MDMA Assisted
Use
Suicide
Ultimate
Frisbee
#
Good
Genocide
Feline
Wyvern
Closeting
Xenophobia Terrorism
Homosexuals
1 K
SIDS
Crime
Or Obesity
Housekeeping
Declawing
Shaming
PLEASE LEAVE OUR PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY
if your child's costume promotes:
Poor
Shaming
Building
a wall
batıng
Disorders
Fat
Gambling
Shaming
Systemic
Big Pharma
Abuse of power
Treason
*90s MDMA Assisted
Use
Suicide
Ultimate
Frisbee
#
Good
Genocide
Feline
Wyvern
Closeting
Xenophobia Terrorism
Homosexuals
1 K
SIDS
Crime
Or Obesity
Housekeeping
Declawing
Shaming
PLEASE LEAVE OUR PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY
@daniidc
in imageby you. Transformed by being spoken into existence by you.
Your rage waits for you to call it by its name.
Speak it. Translate it. Transcribe it. Plaster it up and down the halls
that house abusers of power. In giant font. In wailing screams. In and
through the vibrations true to you.
Pour your rage into your projects. Create ceremonies to honor it.
Therapy sessions to hold it. Read the myths that contextualize it.
Find friendships that validate your rage. Communities that are
gelvanized by the conscious use of their own. Actions that channel it
towards some kind of relief and release.
If your rage is showing up, if your pain is calling upon you, if the hurt
that you have harbored for years is erupting, it trusts you enough to
receive it.
Until we work with it, our rage, pain, and grief exists beneath the
surface of everything we do. Seething. Soaking into and poisoning
our best intentions. Contorting our hearts into shapes too collapsed
to house the love we so desire. Wrapping itself around our life-force,
strangling our creativity, staving off what is rightfully ours.
Stationing retrograde on October 5th, at 10° of Scorpio, Venus,
planet of love, connection, relationships, women, femmes,
femininity, and desire, reveals her other side. When Venus
retrogrades we get to work with all that is in opposiuon to it. The
experiences that evoke our most difficult emotions refuse to be
ignored. One of Venus's many retrograde lessons is that the abuse of
Your rage waits for you to call it by its name.
Speak it. Translate it. Transcribe it. Plaster it up and down the halls
that house abusers of power. In giant font. In wailing screams. In and
through the vibrations true to you.
Pour your rage into your projects. Create ceremonies to honor it.
Therapy sessions to hold it. Read the myths that contextualize it.
Find friendships that validate your rage. Communities that are
gelvanized by the conscious use of their own. Actions that channel it
towards some kind of relief and release.
If your rage is showing up, if your pain is calling upon you, if the hurt
that you have harbored for years is erupting, it trusts you enough to
receive it.
Until we work with it, our rage, pain, and grief exists beneath the
surface of everything we do. Seething. Soaking into and poisoning
our best intentions. Contorting our hearts into shapes too collapsed
to house the love we so desire. Wrapping itself around our life-force,
strangling our creativity, staving off what is rightfully ours.
Stationing retrograde on October 5th, at 10° of Scorpio, Venus,
planet of love, connection, relationships, women, femmes,
femininity, and desire, reveals her other side. When Venus
retrogrades we get to work with all that is in opposiuon to it. The
experiences that evoke our most difficult emotions refuse to be
ignored. One of Venus's many retrograde lessons is that the abuse of
no more fried chicken but this salad hahaha
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this
salad hahaha
but
this
salad hahaha
but
hud fitness center 30th anniversary aftermath
in imagehud fitness center 30th anniversary aftermath
fitness center 30th anniversary aftermath
fitness center 30th anniversary aftermath
@champagne97 @lybra20 @xing_xing_kai
in image@lybra20
@champagne97
Cxing xing kai
@champagne97
Cxing xing kai
yes,
we use props
@dcashtanga
we use props
@dcashtanga
in imageyes,
we use props
Cdcashtanga
we use props
Cdcashtanga
my singing teacher, ladies and gents. we learn a lot from each other. @madeline.miskie
in image"Just a puppy sleeping on a banana"
18.
casual
in imagecàsual
casual
casual
I still like to write by hand with ink and shit (anatomy preview!!) da traps
in image(anatomy preview!!)
da traps
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hand with ink and shit
da traps
pereos.
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at thn neck, spinous processes or
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по нуи т
scapua
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Scapula
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head to ghenad in overkerd
position
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Chos
I still like to write by
hand with ink and shit
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trapped.
lonely. trapped.
lonely. thank God for friends. thank God for representation. 320 lbs.
16 years old.
dying to understand. come out come out come out. someone needs you to be out and proud.
lonely. trapped.
lonely. thank God for friends. thank God for representation. 320 lbs.
16 years old.
dying to understand. come out come out come out. someone needs you to be out and proud.
in image320
lbs.
16 years old.
dying to understand.
trapped.
lonely.
thank God for friends.
thank God for
representation.
someone needs you to be out
and proud.
come out come out come out.
lbs.
16 years old.
dying to understand.
trapped.
lonely.
thank God for friends.
thank God for
representation.
someone needs you to be out
and proud.
come out come out come out.
Hip Articulation!
You don’t need to know the names of every potential movement a joint can make in scientific terms to be a good yoga teacher — but it can definitely help.
In Tuesday’s anatomy class, we covered possible hip articulations: -extension
-flexion
-abduction
-adduction
-internal rotation
-external rotation
We also covered active and passive flexibility as well as open chain and closed chain strength building.
As though that weren’t enough, we also covered which muscles dowhat in order to make these different positions possible. Does this stuff interest you?
Hit me up in the Mysore room @dcashtanga or check out my anatomy courses. Link in bio!
Don't see one near you? Hit me up and I'll bring em your way 😉
You don’t need to know the names of every potential movement a joint can make in scientific terms to be a good yoga teacher — but it can definitely help.
In Tuesday’s anatomy class, we covered possible hip articulations: -extension
-flexion
-abduction
-adduction
-internal rotation
-external rotation
We also covered active and passive flexibility as well as open chain and closed chain strength building.
As though that weren’t enough, we also covered which muscles dowhat in order to make these different positions possible. Does this stuff interest you?
Hit me up in the Mysore room @dcashtanga or check out my anatomy courses. Link in bio!
Don't see one near you? Hit me up and I'll bring em your way 😉
lessons from my applied anatomy course!
in imagelessons from my applied anatomy course!
THANKS @MICHAELJOELHALL 🍑
lessons from my applied anatomy course! THANKS @MICHAELJOELHALL 🍑
THANKS @MICHAELJOELHALL 🍑
lessons from my applied anatomy course! THANKS @MICHAELJOELHALL 🍑
2018
national museum
of the American Indian
of the American Indian
in imageWhy these
stories?
The stories and events featured in this exhibition
are both important and familiar. The three episodes-
the life of Pocahontas, the Trail of Tears, and the
Battle of Little Bighorn-remain an active part of
national life and conversations. They have unique
staying power.
Each generation of Americans decides all over again
what the events mean. George Armstrong Custer
was a hero until he wasn't. Andrew Jackson and
Pocahontas are not the same people our parents
and grandparents remember. History keeps
changing because Americans keep changing it.
stories?
The stories and events featured in this exhibition
are both important and familiar. The three episodes-
the life of Pocahontas, the Trail of Tears, and the
Battle of Little Bighorn-remain an active part of
national life and conversations. They have unique
staying power.
Each generation of Americans decides all over again
what the events mean. George Armstrong Custer
was a hero until he wasn't. Andrew Jackson and
Pocahontas are not the same people our parents
and grandparents remember. History keeps
changing because Americans keep changing it.
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before you get to the lessons end,
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show off. lift your chest, Spidey!!
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did I miss national boyfriends day?
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finishing touches on my applied anatomy day 1 best study date ever, too. #instawags
in imagefinishing touches on my
applied anatomy day 1
best study date ever,
too.
#instawags
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applied anatomy day 1
best study date ever,
too.
#instawags
NATIONAL
PORTRAIT
DONALD W. REYNOLDS CENTER FOY
AMERICAN ART AND FOXTANTONE
Smithsonian Institutio
Dondld W. Reynolds Ce
American Art and Portr
National Portrait Galler
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who is jemal, tho?
in imageJGMALS
who is jemal, tho?
who is jemal, tho?
September 2018
@yasmikey
art all night
bae.
bae.
she’s so cute
in imageshe's so cute
What’s one thing we know for sure about weather? It’s gonna change. I know that, you know that, and yet i still get so bent out of shape as we move from Summer to Fall.
What a silly thing! It’s not like i have any say in it. Short of moving to India or Florida or some such like a snowbird, which you know I’ve tried, why not try to use that energy on something substantive?
This year, I’m making a pact with myself to not complain about the change of the season. The truth is that i don’t *like* winter the way i LOVE summer— but why bitch about the inevitable? Just like death and taxes, we know for sure that change is always a’coming.
So, I’m not going to lean into my dislike. I’m not gonna bitch or roll in the muck of self harming lamentation. Why? Cause all it does is make me feel worse. If it made me feel better maybe it would be ok— but it doesn’t, so it isn’t. And it’s such an easy trap to fall into.
i think the universe has an incredible sense of humor— it’s just very dark.
After all, we're all just careening to hell in a handbasket— these fantastic baskets of flesh and bone that are guaranteed to break down along the way. And we all take ourselves oh-so-seriously.
Since I can’t change the weather, I’m going to try to change my attitude. These are skills from yoga, for sure.
What a silly thing! It’s not like i have any say in it. Short of moving to India or Florida or some such like a snowbird, which you know I’ve tried, why not try to use that energy on something substantive?
This year, I’m making a pact with myself to not complain about the change of the season. The truth is that i don’t *like* winter the way i LOVE summer— but why bitch about the inevitable? Just like death and taxes, we know for sure that change is always a’coming.
So, I’m not going to lean into my dislike. I’m not gonna bitch or roll in the muck of self harming lamentation. Why? Cause all it does is make me feel worse. If it made me feel better maybe it would be ok— but it doesn’t, so it isn’t. And it’s such an easy trap to fall into.
i think the universe has an incredible sense of humor— it’s just very dark.
After all, we're all just careening to hell in a handbasket— these fantastic baskets of flesh and bone that are guaranteed to break down along the way. And we all take ourselves oh-so-seriously.
Since I can’t change the weather, I’m going to try to change my attitude. These are skills from yoga, for sure.
the heirloom pink sock pumpkin pink sock pumpkins 🤣😈
fall!
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poor thing.
yoga with @hokiesuzi
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(charlie already has the pirate hat)
getting the hang of it
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ramen. @adatravels @yasmikey @sarceb
the hornblower
when do you stop wearing white in Canada? 🍁
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wait for it.
SOUND ON
wait for it.
SOUND ON
@nugateau Eclairs y'all.
in imageEclairs y'all.
@nugateau
@nugateau
adult merit badges @livelyogini
in imageadult merit badges
@lively6gini
adult merit badges
@lively6gini
adult merit badges
in imageFIKA CAFE
in image• KENSINGTON MARKET
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half the picture.
It's always just half the picture
It's always just half the picture
on my way to visit friends who make the very best tea like: @sarceb
@adatravels
@smurphya
@emmaoneill
@adatravels
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@emmaoneill
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who make the very best tea
like:
me
conversations that
start with tyou
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@sarceb
Cadatravels
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Cemmaoneill
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like:
me
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in imageOl' QWERTY Bastard
@TheDiLLon1
We already knew Bert and Ernie were a
couple. Can we please move on to other
more important conspiracies?
Theory: Grover and Super Grover are
the same person.
9/18/18, 6:12 PM
@TheDiLLon1
We already knew Bert and Ernie were a
couple. Can we please move on to other
more important conspiracies?
Theory: Grover and Super Grover are
the same person.
9/18/18, 6:12 PM
there's only one spot left for my anatomy course try not
to stall
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for my anatomy course
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there's only one spot left
for my anatomy course
(my teacher, thoroughly unimpressed) i've spent 17 years practicing yoga to flip my feet backwards and shove them up my ass. it better be about something other than the poses. seriously.
in image(my teacher, thoroughly
unimpressed)
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practicing yoga to flip my
feet backwards and shove
them up my ass.
better be about something
other than the poses.
seriously.
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i've spent 17 years
practicing yoga to flip my
feet backwards and shove
them up my ass.
better be about something
other than the poses.
seriously.
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Wanna become a more effective and efficient practitioner and professional?
Join me for my course on Applied Anatomy for Yoga -- This four week course is every Tuesday, beginning October 2nd at @kaliyogadc in DC.
According to the International Association of Yoga Therapists, the two main causes of injury in yoga come from “excessive student effort” and “inadequate teacher training.” By learning how to practice in a manner that is built on a solid foundation of movement science, course members will learn how to practice smarter, not harder— taking the excess out of the effort.
We’ll cover major landmarks, joints, and articulations, weed out misconceptions and incongruences, and have a lot of fun along the way.
Checkout the link in my bio for more info!
Join me for my course on Applied Anatomy for Yoga -- This four week course is every Tuesday, beginning October 2nd at @kaliyogadc in DC.
According to the International Association of Yoga Therapists, the two main causes of injury in yoga come from “excessive student effort” and “inadequate teacher training.” By learning how to practice in a manner that is built on a solid foundation of movement science, course members will learn how to practice smarter, not harder— taking the excess out of the effort.
We’ll cover major landmarks, joints, and articulations, weed out misconceptions and incongruences, and have a lot of fun along the way.
Checkout the link in my bio for more info!
act casual.
if I've learned anything from @davidgarriguesyoga -- it's to turn every obstruction or obstacle into an opportunity for development. your own ingenuity matters and Hatha yoga hones it.
🦈 @davidgarriguesyoga my teacher (dun nuh) about to strike (dun Nuh)
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about to strike (dun Nuh)
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Southern word of the day
"Namaste" As in: "Y'all
gonna evacuate?"
"Namaste here"
Liked by yogi_beckyp and 24 others
aysraleigh #homepractice tomorrow folks! AYS Raleigh will
be closed tomorrow, Friday September 14th due to... more
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Southern word of the day
"Namaste" As in: "Y'all
gonna evacuate?"
"Namaste here"
Liked by yogi_beckyp and 24 others
aysraleigh #homepractice tomorrow folks! AYS Raleigh will
be closed tomorrow, Friday September 14th due to... more
4 HOURS AGO
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life and I forgot to get a
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NOT ALONE
NOT ALONE
one day
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the rain
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I love people who have felt the tiredness
of their soul. get up in the morning and
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I love people who have felt the tiredness
of their soul. get up in the morning and
choose to stay strong. You make this
world a better place.
- F.R
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EQUITY
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squatting?
No thanks.
Gym-goers are irked
bobbyist Natalie Weeks. She's
not anti-amile, but is discomfited
with fitness instructors
by what she describes as a level
telling them to smile
of "aggression" in instructors
who repeatedly command class
TRENDS
members to grin. Julie Ricevuto,
I recentiy spent an bour atempe-
anorber rourine clans-goer, sayss,
ing Marrior 1 on a floating yoga
*Hallf of the time when I'm work-
mat as part of an "agua-fi" work-
ing out, it's early in the morming
sur. The instructor dido't re-
or after a long day at work — both
mind me to prutect my knee or
times in which I'm not exactly in
t engage my core. Instead, she
the mood to stile through an ez-
wanned me to amue
ceptionally hard workout class."
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Warkouts are an opportunity to
shirts that warn, "Doa't tell me
breathe loudls, sweat and gener-
to amille "Street barassment has
ally appear uncomposed in a room
long been documented and de-
full of peopie who are dring the
munced. But in the gym, minruc-
same. A smile cue shatters that
toes bavea't gumten the message.
illusion, reminding exencisers to
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stay presentable even while drip
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someone else's benefit is a gen
comsersal my lips whüe bolding a
dered code, one that no worsan
burting chair pose, grin through
should be forced to upbold when
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already holding a plank.
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well. It's widely belleved that
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the same tome as an actual fie-
all mood in and out of the gym.
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brows and remain composed,
so I understand where they're
comning from even if 1 dosit agree
with it," says Jennica Kalick, a
certified ynga instructor in NYC.
*Everyone wears their effort
differently, whether that's by
gritting their teeth, crinkling
their eyebrows, steeling their
Jawr or simply looking neutral,"
says Kulck. "Se
unusual reaction t
physicadactivity"
rectly requestin
her students, Kal
them to notice
have tightemed
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*pull thems out of
rience "agrees.
instructor at 7
lyn "It also adds
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moment of the
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Joanna Ros
structor at Sky
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Smiling while
squatting?
No thanks.
Gym-goers are irked
bobbyist Natalie Weeks. She's
not anti-amile, but is discomfited
with fitness instructors
by what she describes as a level
telling them to smile
of "aggression" in instructors
who repeatedly command class
TRENDS
members to grin. Julie Ricevuto,
I recentiy spent an bour atempe-
anorber rourine clans-goer, sayss,
ing Marrior 1 on a floating yoga
*Hallf of the time when I'm work-
mat as part of an "agua-fi" work-
ing out, it's early in the morming
sur. The instructor dido't re-
or after a long day at work — both
mind me to prutect my knee or
times in which I'm not exactly in
t engage my core. Instead, she
the mood to stile through an ez-
wanned me to amue
ceptionally hard workout class."
Ne'ire living in a world with T-
Warkouts are an opportunity to
shirts that warn, "Doa't tell me
breathe loudls, sweat and gener-
to amille "Street barassment has
ally appear uncomposed in a room
long been documented and de-
full of peopie who are dring the
munced. But in the gym, minruc-
same. A smile cue shatters that
toes bavea't gumten the message.
illusion, reminding exencisers to
As a firners writer who has
stay presentable even while drip
aune so a pletbora of classes.
ping with sweat. But to smile for
T'rebees dinected to turn up the
someone else's benefit is a gen
comsersal my lips whüe bolding a
dered code, one that no worsan
burting chair pose, grin through
should be forced to upbold when
vbakce inducing dumhbell repson
already holding a plank.
die harre, and provide a "gran
Some instructors may mean
snrisa" in a sgin clans in Miexaco
well. It's widely belleved that
Orhen the request is issoed in
smoiling can improve your over-
the same tome as an actual fie-
all mood in and out of the gym.
otructiue: "Leas back
But studies about the effect
Malgar 10 1
vour heselis amc
of imiling on a workout have
amtue at yourwellf in the murrer."
beem inconclasive, and somse test
Iie otly workouts that baven't
subjects even performed worse
callied fur my umt
Jee Boning or
when foroed to smile
Croufit, which are mone likely
So why do trainers urge their
io sitew malle
chents to smile?
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Sew Kork City-based fitness
choose to cue smiling because
Channelling anger
PauciFas 1 Mamo
instructor at Barmy's Bootcamg
would rather his studients chamnel
anger "T actually encourage my
clients to take their anger out on
me by simply yelling. TExpietive)
you." That acinowiedgment of
dfficulty. he explains. can reveao
dension from the room - and iead ta
genuine laughs and high-fives ts
of their owm newbens to teach
ing or nervoussess in genera.
It's hard to lock at a roomsful of
sweaty people with furnowed
brows and remain composed,
so I understand where they're
comning from even if 1 dosit agree
with it," says Jennica Kalick, a
certified ynga instructor in NYC.
*Everyone wears their effort
differently, whether that's by
gritting their teeth, crinkling
their eyebrows, steeling their
Jawr or simply looking neutral,"
says Kulck. "Se
unusual reaction t
physicadactivity"
rectly requestin
her students, Kal
them to notice
have tightemed
Asking stade
*pull thems out of
rience "agrees.
instructor at 7
lyn "It also adds
that we meed toB
moment of the
fam't mecessas
good alll of the t
Joanna Ros
structor at Sky
City, wouldn t or
requesting sn
class wbere the
ing each other,
at the person
remind peop
a communal p
and that thei
those aroune
FOR THE MASH
a Dark at 9:30 aum. Saturday ) The Bike Rack Logan Circle hosts free inten
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Last month I was interviewed by the one and only Chris Parkison for the DC Yoga Podcast. We dug into:
--the changing landscape of the yoga industrial complex; why teachers can't make a living, why studios fail, and how to circumvent the traps inherent in the mainstream yoga world.
--my journey into teaching; ashrams, India, the corporate world, and combating appropriation
-- we also chewed the fat like bros do.
I hope you'll go listen and tell me what you think!! Link in bio!
--the changing landscape of the yoga industrial complex; why teachers can't make a living, why studios fail, and how to circumvent the traps inherent in the mainstream yoga world.
--my journey into teaching; ashrams, India, the corporate world, and combating appropriation
-- we also chewed the fat like bros do.
I hope you'll go listen and tell me what you think!! Link in bio!
Last month I was interviewed by the one and only Chris Parkison for the DC Yoga Podcast. We dug into:
--the changing landscape of the yoga industrial complex; why teachers can't make a living, why studios fail, and how to circumvent the traps inherent in the mainstream yoga world.
--my journey into teaching; ashrams, India, the corporate world, and combating appropriation
-- we also chewed the fat like bros do.
I hope you'll go listen and tell me what you think!! Link in bio!
--the changing landscape of the yoga industrial complex; why teachers can't make a living, why studios fail, and how to circumvent the traps inherent in the mainstream yoga world.
--my journey into teaching; ashrams, India, the corporate world, and combating appropriation
-- we also chewed the fat like bros do.
I hope you'll go listen and tell me what you think!! Link in bio!
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