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#kundalini #yogaofawareness #yogaofawakening #yogaintotnes (at Kundalini Yoga & Meditation and Shakti Yoga-Dance - workshops with Steph)

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All bodies, all welcome.tis week’s classes focus on the glandular system to help us through the change of season. Newsletter: Your Glandular System, storehouse of emotion..😁😂😄😫 - http://mailchi.mp/4a1e1bd0ac94/autumnal-news-254571

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This week’s classes focus on the glands - clearing and cleansing for the change of seasons and to release locked up emotion via the body not the mind #totnesyoga #kundalini #kundaliniintotnes Newsletter: Your Glandular System, storehouse of emotion..😁😂😄😫 - http://mailchi.mp/4a1e1bd0ac94/autumnal-news-254571 (at Kundalini Yoga & Meditation and Shakti Yoga-Dance - workshops with Steph)

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#yogapic #yogaintotnes #kundalini #totnesyoga #kundaliniawakening (at Totnes)

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When the iPod shuffle perfectly fits the #pranayam, #kriya & #meditation which themselves just got downloaded in #sadhana... & unexpectedly grateful to the humble bookmark 😀

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“Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world. - Charles Mackay #nature #water #waterfall #belikewater #tattwa #tattwamasi (at River Dart)

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Love my silly #minpin #yogadog #dogisgodspelledbackwards #allhailthedoggo

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~ Coming Home to your Inner Landscape ~

People who come to my classes know that they can be vigorous and powerful but that you work at your own level, and that I suggest modifications for all postures. The idea is to go to *your edge* without going over it, and that there is a difference between the limits the mind sets for you, and the actual limits of your physical body.

That is why we always check in with this inner landscape in-between each exercise, so we can watch for the difference.

That is why most of the exercises are done with closed eyes so we are focused on what is important, not what is out there.

That is also why I play music, as the sound current can often ease us back home to the inner world.

Welcome home!

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Polytunnel shakti! Next yoga-dance workshop 27th August #highnature #eastprawle #shaktibodies #kundalinidance #movementmedicine (at High Nature Centre)

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Get your groove on! Dancing is a great way to move energy #shakti #kundalinidance #kundalini #yogaintotnes #totnes (at Totnes railway station)

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Today I did this kriya for tolerance for my sadhana. What I learnt about tolerance is that the trick is to create and generate inner strength qso that we can tolerate our own crap. We do not need to tolerate other people’s views, we need to truly accommodate them as part of ourselves… embracing others’ shit is a true and honest way of facing one’s own shadow. To do this we have to be strong because humans are full of crap!

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History has written women out of #yoga but we know better . . Thursday's class theme: OPENING THE HEART! #tantra #totnesyoga #kundaliniawakening #kundaliniawakening #shakti #devonyoga #yogaindevon (at Windmill House Hostel)

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The Five Elements Within and Without, and the Yogic Path to Manifest Freedom

It is commonly understood in Traditional Chinese Medicine – TCM – that there are 5 elements that make up the manifest, earthly realm: earth, water, fire, water and metal.

Kundalini Yoga harnesses, cleanses, regulates and balances the energetic and physical bodies in a similar way to TCM: through the kriyas (exercise sets) in class we stimulate or mollify the meridian lines in the body that run alongside the veins and arteries (but are not of them) and harness these 5 elements of TCM, or tattwas as they are called in the ancient Vedic lore that underpins yoga. We are of these elements and the elements are within us. This is why a Kundalini class can feel so powerful and effective, we have worked directly with the physical and energetic bodies.

We are of course proven to be made of stardust – I read recently that neutrinos – their mass is much smaller than that of the other known elementary particles – emerge from nuclear reactions within the sun and 7 minutes later or so are passing through our bodies. How connected do we need to feel to begin the process to protect our ecology, our environment, this planet, our body, and its atmosphere, and our aura or personal energy field? There is untapped gold in this work.

Beginning to move from the Mind-Body of Cartesian Separation to the Heart

The practice of yoga unites the lower centres – root (earth), sacral (water) and emotional/plexus (fire) through the pranic or airy gateway of the heart centre (anahat) to the higher centres of the throat, third eye and crown. Each chakra corresponds physically to a glandular (endocrine) centre in the body but are not of them. Regular practice stimulates our conscousness toward the truth of who we really are, the truth contained within the heart, the anahat chakra, the place of the unstruck sound.

The unstruck sound that the heart rings with is the truth that unfolds through our subjective journeys - through yoga, bodywork and sacred acts of self care - and not the whimsy of the scattered elements of disassociated and disconnected rational thoughts hijacked by the ego which, for good and noble (protective) reasons, requires things not to change. Through yoga we harness the instinctive, primal, root energies of the lower centres of the body through the gateway of the heart (the strait gate) to enliven the etheric and energetic centres of the upper triangles of the body. This is what is known as the rising of kundalini – the power of awareness and truth rising up from the navel centres through the heart to the cortical centres - blowing away ego delusion with the gaze of the inner eye. Think of how you feel when you leave class from when you arrive – or after a massage or a good dance.. The ego has had to take a back seat. And it feels good! And thus we progress our spiritual evolution with practice. And because we are all connected, all benefit.

Earth my body

Water my blood

Air my breath and

Fire my spirit.

This chant means more than anything now, as we witness through our media the movement of the water protectors in Indian territory in the US, and the protective actions of anti-fracking acitivsts all over the US and in the UK.  So with every act of destruction on the planet now there is a part of us requiring healing and restoration.

Small, manageable acts. Like:

Quit buying water in disposable bottles

Make a small monthly donation to a cause or charity

Support a friend in need, or do some volunteering

Take part in a beach clean

And of course regular meditation and yoga!

The revolution is personal, seen in small acts of self-love, personal elevation and the protection of our community and our environment. We are whatever occurs within and without as sentient, living, breathing beings.

And here’s little heart song from Carrie Tree. Below it, information about my weekly yoga classes here in Totnes south Devon and extra workshops happening over August and September on the South Devon Coast. Thanks for reading this far! With love love and more love. Steph x

So I have a series of August Shakti Bodies Kundalini Dance workshops happening at the High Nature Centre near East Portlemouth on the South Devon coast.  

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#yogagames #kidsyoga #southdevon #aonb (at High Nature Centre)

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See you on the dance floor! #porteliot #shaktibodies #kundalinidance http://porteliotfestival.com/act/shakti-bodies-kundalini-dance/ (at Port Eliot Festival)

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Yoga for lower back pain

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Joining the slew of #devon #sunset pictures! #Totnes (at Totnes railway station)