a joyful let go
monday 30th jan - sunday 05th feb

YOUR NEW WEEK OF PRACTICE

A mix of yin and yang style classes to suit your mood, day and sentiment. Choose your own yoga adventure.

YIN YANG YOGA a balance of soft and challenging
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MELLOW FLOW YOGA a delicious mellow class
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YIN YOGA long slow mindful releases
PROPS: strap
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FLOW YOGA a mindful flow
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HATHA YOGA: a classic traditional style class
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MEDITATION FOR STRESS
PROPS: cushion
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a Joyful let go

The first thing is to realise that our struggles come from attachment.
Attachment to:

  • an outcome

  • a preconceived idea of how it should be

  • a standard

  • a result

  • a feeling (eg safety or joy or anger)

  • things and objects

  • people

  • frustrations

  • time (whether moving too fast, too slow or not at all

Review the list above and see if any of them apply. It can be easy to point the finger in someone else’s direction, or to feel bad about things. But what if we could simply notice where and when we’re feeling attached to something?

Once we can see the attachment, we can practice with it, and see if we can release the attachment.

It might go something like this:

  1. Breathe. Turn towards the present moment.

  2. Let yourself feel the emotion associated with the attachment. Just be with it, mindfully, and feel it as sensation in the body.

  3. Ask if the attachment is serving you.

  4. Ask would it could be like without the attachment.

  5. Joyfully release the attachment like releasing your grip on a balloon … and let it float away! See if you can experience a few moments without the attachment, and see what that’s like. What’s available to you when you are free of the attachment?

Try it this week — is there something you’ve been frustrated about, avoiding, addicted to? Could you notice the attachment that you have and joyfully release it?

What would that be like or feel like for you?

Namaste
xo

mantra:
are my attachments serving me?