"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin

“The idea behind a kaleidoscope is that it's a structure that's filled with broken bits and pieces, and somehow if you can look through them, you still see something beautiful. And I feel like we are all that way a little bit.” Sara Bareilles

“Wasting time is a basic human need. Once we accept that, we can stop fearing our inner “laziness” and begin to build healthy, happy, well-balanced lives.” Devon Price

"Is the world a lying asshole, with bogus expectations? Or is there something wrong with us?" Emily and Amelia Nagoski

"When you reach your edge, soften. Soften until you slip through the constraints and can create a new rhythm, a new route, a new release. Water is soft yet powerful. Reach your edge, and soften." Victoria Erickson

“Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.” Marianne Williamson

"Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.” L.R. Knost

“My love language is safety. And feeling emotionally safe means collecting evidence that I can be my authentic, messy, sometimes dysregulated and struggling human self, and still be valued, cared for, and not abandoned.” Daniell Koepke

“Unless I can discover the alchemical trick of turning this muck into gold. I am lost.” Nietzsche

"The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to discover those jewels - that's creative living.” Elizabeth Gilbert

“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being." Ram Dass

"Let me bathe my soul in colours, let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow." Kahlil Gibran

Issues in our tissues

May 5, 2016

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb - Nejwa Zabian

We all have 'issues in our tissues' - we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders, when someone annoys us we call them a pain in the neck, when we are nervous we get butterflies in our tummy, we get worry lines across our forehead, our jaw tenses when we are angry, we get stress headaches... Our inner world (mind and heart) is often manifested in our outer world (body).

If we can let go of these uncomfortable physical sensations via yoga and relaxation - our inner world tends to follow suit and our mind naturally becomes clearer and our thoughts more positive, our heart opens and becomes more grateful and our emotions stabilise.

That is the beauty and potency of yoga

Life is a hell of a lot easier without having to carry around all that excess baggage. It is exhausting to carry and completely unnecessary. So tune in and acknowledge the discomfort or tiredness in your body then soften it, relax, open, expand, release and let it go. Imagine the freedom and space for opportunity this creates for you.