YOGA + TEA= PARTY

 Tea is instant wisdom - just add water!  I love my TEAVANA tea !! 

  Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. 

Unknown

  Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. 

B.K.S. Iyengar

  Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be. 

anon

  Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth. 

Sharon Gannon

  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built. 

Rumi

  You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. 

Sharon Gannon

 When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. 

  If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. 

T. Guillemets

 Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight or flight mode. 

Melanie Haiken

 Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. 

Ymber Delecto

 Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. 

Jason Crandell

 The word yoga comes from Sanskrit, the language of ancient India. It means union, integration, or wholeness. It is an approach to health that promotes the harmonious collaboration of the human being's three components: body, mind, and spirit. 

 Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. 

Donna F.

 Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted -- in body, mind, and heart -- and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow -- or we begin to flow more in our lives. 

-jonah asher ... just kidding !

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life in balance

The Great Way is not difficult;

It only avoids picking and choosing.

When love and hate are both absent,

Everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Make the smallest distinction, however,

And heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

If you wish to see the truth,

Then hold no opinions for or against anything.

To set up what you like against what you dislike

Is a disease of the mind.

When the deep meaning of things is not understood,

The mind’s essential peace is disturbed to no avail.

The Way is perfect like vast space,

Where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess.

Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject

That we do not see the true nature of things.

Live neither in the entanglements of outer things

Nor in inner feelings of emptiness.

Be serene in the oneness of things

And such erroneous views will disappear by themselves.

To deny the reality of things

Is to miss their reality;

To assert the emptiness of things

Is to miss their reality.

The more you talk and think about it,

The further astray you wander from the truth.

Stop talking and thinking

And there is nothing that you will not be able to know.

teachings by John Daido Loori 

Finding my still point .

 Bhujangasana II ( Sphinx) pose

... O goddess, difficult to find is a guru who lights up everything like the sun.

Kula Aranva Tantru

 Uttanasana ( Forward Bend) Pose 

This is a boon to people who get excited quickly, as it soothes the Brain cells. After finishing the asana, one feels calm and cool, the eyes start to glow, and the mind feels at peace.

B.K.S. Iyengar

 Matsyasana ( Fish) pose

Health is WEALTH. Peace of mind is Happiness. Yoga shows the way. 

Swami Vishnu Devananda

 Virasana ( Hero) Pose I have neither Guru nor initiation; I have no discipline no duty to preform. Understand that I'm the formless sky; I'm the self- existent purity.

Avadhuta Gita

 Simhasana ( Lion) Pose stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the self, the God of the universe. Say: " I am existence absolute, bliss absolute, knowledge absolute, I am He."

Swami Vivekananda

 Happy Baby Pose 

Sow love, reap peace.... sow meditation, reap wisdom.

Swami Sivananda

 Ugrasana ( Fearful ) Pose 

Stretch both legs joined and holding firmly the feet with the hands, place the head on the knees. This is called the Fearful Posture, which stimulates the fire of the LIFE BREATH.

 Vrksasana ( Tree) Pose 

All duties, wealth , enjoyment, liberation, All people and objects in the world as well;  Everything, in the eyes of a yogi, Is like the [illusory] water in a desert mirage.  

-Avadhuta gita

 Virabhadrasana I ( Warrior I )  Stand erect, or you cave in the very self.

B.K.S. Iyengar

 Balasana ( Child's Pose) As a tortoise contracts its limbs into the middle of the shell, so the yogi should withdraw the senses into himself.  - Goraksha-Paddhati

 Sirsana ( Headstand ) Pose with help from mommy :)  

He who practices the headstand for three hours daily CONQUERS TIME.  -

 The Upanishad

  Tadasana (Mountain) Pose 

The first fruits of the practice of yoga are health, little waste matter, and a clear complexion; lightness of the body , a pleasant scent, and a sweet voice; and an absence of greedy desires.

The Upanishad

 Paschimottanasana ( Forward Bend) Pose

 Yoga is the restraint of the thought-waves of the mind.

Yoga Sutras

 Utkatasana ( Chair Pose) 

When you look into another's eyes, what you see is the Self, fearless and deathless.  That is the Higher Spirit, Brahman, the Supreme.

-The Upanishad

 Navasana( Boat Pose)

No matter that I have not expressed it yet, it is in me.  All knowledge is in me, all power, and all freedom.

- Swami Vivekananda

 Tadasana ( Tree Pose)

 Pranayama (Breath Control)
OM is spirit.  Everything is OM.  OM is the beginning of the ancient chants.  The priests start with OM, the teachers start with OM.  The student murmuring OM seeks the spirit and finds it in the end.
- The Upanishad

Sukhasana ( Easy Pose)  Haha Funny Pics I love my Hubby
When the five senses and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the path supreme.  This calm steadiness of the senses is called Yoga.
-  The Upanishad.


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Downward Dog

Our Girls Gyspie (Bliss) and Jade Adopted on July 1st 2012.

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace."

"When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long."
- Unknown

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."
- Mark Twain, Letter to W D Howells, 4/2/1899

"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic."
- Henry Ward Beecher

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive."
- Gilda Radner

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich."
- Louis Sabin

Peace & Doggy Love ,

Happy Hippie