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I used to run to conquer my body. Now I run like having a conversation with it.
My hamstring whispers, I slow down. My breath labors, I adjust pace.
How do you know when to push and when to listen to your body?
Read essay
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/when-the-body-says-no-e5ca3df5f30a
#mindfulrunning #bodylistening #yoga
#runningmeditation #embodiedwisdom #presence
#runningpractice #yogarunner #intuitivemovement -
Despacio. One word. My grandmother's entire yoga teaching, without the yoga.
She said it to her plants, to herself, to a ten-year-old who didn't know she was learning.
What word from someone you loved carries the most?
#slowliving #yoga #embodiedwisdom
#spanishyogi #breath #contemplativelife
#yogajourney #presence #clararamirez -
I practiced yoga for five years before I learned what yoga actually was.
The first sutra changed everything: yoga is stilling the mind, not mastering poses.
What surprised you most when you first encountered yoga philosophy?
Read the full essay
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/books-that-challenged-my-yoga-practice-77c4aeddf69a
#yogaphilosophy #yogasutras #yogapractice
#mindfulness #meditation #contemplativepractice
#yogabooks #spiritualreading #embodiedwisdom -
My grandmother practiced yoga for fifty years. She called it sitting down.
Asana means seat. Not pose. She had it right all along, the vocabulary just hadn't caught up.
What does your practice look like without the words?
#yoga #asana #ancestralwisdom
#yogaphilosophy #presencepractice #familywisdom
#embodiedwisdom #contemplativepractice #culturalheritage -
My grandmother practiced yoga for fifty years. She called it sitting down.
Asana means seat. Not pose. She had it right all along, the vocabulary just hadn't caught up.
What does your practice look like without the words?
#yoga #asana #ancestralwisdom
#yogaphilosophy #presencepractice #familywisdom
#embodiedwisdom #contemplativepractice #culturalheritage -
My grandmother practiced yoga for fifty years. She called it sitting down.
Asana means seat. Not pose. She had it right all along, the vocabulary just hadn't caught up.
What does your practice look like without the words?
#yoga #asana #ancestralwisdom
#yogaphilosophy #presencepractice #familywisdom
#embodiedwisdom #contemplativepractice #culturalheritage -
My grandmother practiced yoga for fifty years. She called it sitting down.
Asana means seat. Not pose. She had it right all along, the vocabulary just hadn't caught up.
What does your practice look like without the words?
#yoga #asana #ancestralwisdom
#yogaphilosophy #presencepractice #familywisdom
#embodiedwisdom #contemplativepractice #culturalheritage -
My grandmother practiced yoga for fifty years. She called it sitting down.
Asana means seat. Not pose. She had it right all along, the vocabulary just hadn't caught up.
What does your practice look like without the words?
#yoga #asana #ancestralwisdom
#yogaphilosophy #presencepractice #familywisdom
#embodiedwisdom #contemplativepractice #culturalheritage -
Despacio. One word. My grandmother's entire yoga teaching, without the yoga.
She said it to her plants, to herself, to a ten-year-old who didn't know she was learning.
What word from someone you loved carries the most?
#slowliving #yoga #embodiedwisdom
#spanishyogi #breath #contemplativelife
#yogajourney #presence #clararamirez -
I practiced yoga for five years before I learned what yoga actually was.
The first sutra changed everything: yoga is stilling the mind, not mastering poses.
What surprised you most when you first encountered yoga philosophy?
Read the full essay
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/books-that-challenged-my-yoga-practice-77c4aeddf69a
#yogaphilosophy #yogasutras #yogapractice
#mindfulness #meditation #contemplativepractice
#yogabooks #spiritualreading #embodiedwisdom -
I still wake early, still run, still practice yoga. The practices didn't change. My relationship to them did.
Holding it loosely. Trusting rhythm, not the plan.
What would shift for you if you held your practice a little more loosely?
#yoga #practice #presence
#mindfulness #surrender #listening
#holdlightly #embodiedwisdom #dailypractice -
My teacher told me to put my books down for one week. I thought it would be easy.
It wasn't. Without my concepts, I had to feel what I'd been studying instead.
What has your body taught you that books couldn't?
#yoga #embodiedwisdom #teachers
#rishikesh #spiritualpractice #movementasmedicine
#yogaretreat #guruwisdom #bodywisdom -
My teacher told me to put my books down for one week. I thought it would be easy.
It wasn't. Without my concepts, I had to feel what I'd been studying instead.
What has your body taught you that books couldn't?
#yoga #embodiedwisdom #teachers
#rishikesh #spiritualpractice #movementasmedicine
#yogaretreat #guruwisdom #bodywisdom -
My teacher told me to put my books down for one week. I thought it would be easy.
It wasn't. Without my concepts, I had to feel what I'd been studying instead.
What has your body taught you that books couldn't?
#yoga #embodiedwisdom #teachers
#rishikesh #spiritualpractice #movementasmedicine
#yogaretreat #guruwisdom #bodywisdom -
My teacher told me to put my books down for one week. I thought it would be easy.
It wasn't. Without my concepts, I had to feel what I'd been studying instead.
What has your body taught you that books couldn't?
#yoga #embodiedwisdom #teachers
#rishikesh #spiritualpractice #movementasmedicine
#yogaretreat #guruwisdom #bodywisdom -
My teacher told me to put my books down for one week. I thought it would be easy.
It wasn't. Without my concepts, I had to feel what I'd been studying instead.
What has your body taught you that books couldn't?
#yoga #embodiedwisdom #teachers
#rishikesh #spiritualpractice #movementasmedicine
#yogaretreat #guruwisdom #bodywisdom -
We've been taught that stillness means not moving.
But the Buddha walked for forty-nine days after his awakening. Maybe wisdom needs legs.
How does your body find its own way to stillness?
Read the full story
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/running-toward-stillness-315ccaf8e421
#meditationpractice #embodiedwisdom #movementmeditation
#buddhism #contemplativepractice #spiritualjourney
#mindfulness #runningmeditation #walkingmeditation -
My teacher told me to put my books down for one week. I thought it would be easy.
It wasn't. Without my concepts, I had to feel what I'd been studying instead.
What has your body taught you that books couldn't?
#yoga #embodiedwisdom #teachers
#rishikesh #spiritualpractice #movementasmedicine
#yogaretreat #guruwisdom #bodywisdom -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
My hamstrings taught me more about non-harming than any yoga text ever could.
After my first marathon, my body ached for weeks. That pain wasn't punishment, it was a message I'd been ignoring.
What has your body been trying to tell you lately?
Find the full essay
#ahimsa #bodylistening #yogawisdom
#injuryprevention #recovery #mindfulmovement
#selfcare #intuitivemovement #embodiedwisdom -
I used to run to conquer my body. Now I run like having a conversation with it.
My hamstring whispers, I slow down. My breath labors, I adjust pace.
How do you know when to push and when to listen to your body?
Read essay
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/when-the-body-says-no-e5ca3df5f30a
#mindfulrunning #bodylistening #yoga
#runningmeditation #embodiedwisdom #presence
#runningpractice #yogarunner #intuitivemovement -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
My yoga practice is completely unremarkable. And that's exactly where the transformation happens.
Same basic asanas, a thousand times.
What does your unremarkable, everyday practice look like?
#dailypractice #yogaathome #consistency
#homeyoga #mindfulness #yogajourney
#authenticpractice #embodiedwisdom #yogalife -
Hip openers made me anxious despite years of practice.
Van der Kolk showed me muscles hold memory, bodies store trauma.
What has your body been trying to tell you through resistance or discomfort?
#somatichealing #traumainformedyoga #embodiedwisdom
#bodymindconnection #yogatherapy #healingtrauma
#yogabooks #mindfulness #selfcompassion -
Hip openers made me anxious despite years of practice.
Van der Kolk showed me muscles hold memory, bodies store trauma.
What has your body been trying to tell you through resistance or discomfort?
#somatichealing #traumainformedyoga #embodiedwisdom
#bodymindconnection #yogatherapy #healingtrauma
#yogabooks #mindfulness #selfcompassion -
My hamstrings taught me more about non-harming than any yoga text ever could.
After my first marathon, my body ached for weeks. That pain wasn't punishment, it was a message I'd been ignoring.
What has your body been trying to tell you lately?
Find the full essay
#ahimsa #bodylistening #yogawisdom
#injuryprevention #recovery #mindfulmovement
#selfcare #intuitivemovement #embodiedwisdom -
When you can't see, everything else sharpens.
In darkness I feel the incline through my calves before I see it. My feet read the path's texture. My body takes over when my eyes can't lead.When have you noticed your body knowing things your mind didn't?#embodiedwisdom #awareness#mindfulness #bodywisdom #somaticpractice#contemplativepractice #innerknowing #mindfulmovement -
True guidance is not a concept.
It’s a sensation.Your body knows
when something is right.
Your breath deepens.
Your jaw lets go.
Your spine softens.It doesn’t shout.
It lands quietly —
like a truth
you’ve always known.That’s the kind of guidance
you can live with.#EmbodiedWisdom #SelfTrust #InnerKnowing #SelfGuidance #MentalHealth