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Anything is a blessing even your prayers xo 🐶💜

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Loving my new off duty #aloyoga hat that my angel @xyience17 got me from @aloyoga @aloyogastores 🖤 Maitri, Loving-Kindness Inspired by you, this week’s Yogi Assignment is Loving-Kindness. Sometimes referred to as Maitri in Sanskrit, an attitude of kindness goes a long way to make your world a more peaceful place. As yogis we learn to cultivate a kind and loving approach to ourselves through the practice. So many students begin yoga with the same midnset of goal orientation, self-judgment and over-achievement that happens off the mat. The practice slowly shifts your heart to love and forgiveness. Then instead of beating yourself up about all the poses you can’t do you learn how to celebrate the beauty of the journey without any attachment to what the end will be. Yoga feels a lot like freedom because the practice teaches you how to let go of all the self-limiting thoughts that all too often rumble around in our heads. Being kind to yourself is one of the most improving lessons of the yoga path. -kino @kinoyoga #practiceandalliscoming #30dayyogaliving #kindness (at Boca Raton, Florida)

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If your goal is to help other people or help animals or help the planet in some way then, YOU WILL SUCCEED! God will align everything for you to shine more light to overcome the darkness. People are attracted to light... they will support you if your motivations are pure. If you want to get rich, have fame or become "somebody" based out of pride and ego well then, you are on your own. I think you can work any job or have any career you want as long as it is lined up with your core values and a pure motivation. I believe you can be successful when you know what YOUR PURPOSE is. Why were you created to be here and how can YOU make a difference? Begin to ask yourself, what am I good at and how can I help others? Don't worry about fear but instead have courage. Fear is normal but courage takes someone of great character. TRUST that you are exactly where you are supposed to be, right now doing exactly what you are supposed to do. Follow your heart. Follow the light. It will happen. -Kerri @beachyogagirl @aloyoga @xyience17 @teekigram @pbvegfest #30dayyogaliving #practiceandalliscoming (at Boca Raton, Florida)

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Today!!! 🌱January 20, 2018 from 10am-6pm at the Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton, Florida for our next Palm Beach VegFest. ​Palm Beach VegFest is like no event you have ever seen before! Palm Beach VegFest is a registered 501c3 nonprofit organization and profits are donated to vegan charities and organizations. Admission is FREE! Enjoy the good vibes, learn, play games, shop, and spoil your taste buds with frozen desserts and all of your favorite foods! Research has proven that a vegan diet is better for your health, more sustainable for our planet, and better for the animals. Check out What the Health, Cowspiracy, Forks Over Knives🍴, Thug Kitchen, and Vegucated. @pbvegfest @xyience17 💚 #pbvegfest #30dayyogaliving (at Mizner Park Amphitheater)

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Allie: Noah, do you think I could have been a bird in another life? cawww caww Noah: I don't know Allie: I think I could have. Say I'm a bird Noah: no Allie: sayy it Noah: you're a bird Allie: now say you're a bird too Noah: if you're a bird i'm a bird -Nicholas Sparks 🦆💏💚 @xyience17 @k.deer @teekigram #bird #love #30dayyogaliving #practiceandalliscoming (at Deerfield Beach, Florida)

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Day 21!!! Take a sweet break with @kinoyoga and Myself and enjoy this vegan recipe for the #30dayyogaliving Vegan Strawberry Shortcake 🍓 Musician, vegan and animal activist Moby is a real foodie - so much so that he opened his own vegan restaurant in California, with all profits going to animal protection causes. His chosen dessert - or at least one of the many he loves - is a strawberry shortcake. Ingredients For the shortcakes: 200g dairy-free margarine 1 tsp vanilla essence 100g caster sugar 300g plain our, sifted For the cream: 1 x 400ml can of full fat coconut milk, refrigerated overnight 75g icing sugar 1⁄2 tsp vanilla extract And don’t forget... 16 strawberries Ingredients For the shortcakes: 200g dairy-free margarine 1 tsp vanilla essence 100g caster sugar 300g plain our, sifted For the cream: 1 x 400ml can of full fat coconut milk, refrigerated overnight 75g icing sugar 1⁄2 tsp vanilla extract And don’t forget... 16 strawberries Method 1. In a bowl, cream together the margarine, vanilla essence and sugar. Stir in the our and mix into a dough. Wrap the dough in cling lm and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes. 2. Heat the oven to 160 °C and line a baking tray with parchment paper. 3. Roll out the chilled dough to about a 1⁄2 cm thickness and, using a cookie cutter, cut into rounds. Place them on the baking sheet, sprinkle with a little extra sugar and bake for 12-15 minutes. 4. Leave to cool for at least 10 minutes. 5. To make the coconut cream, chill a large mixing bowl for 10 minutes, then take the chilled, hardened coconut milk from the fridge and scrape out the thickened cream, leaving behind the liquid. 6. Beat for 30 seconds until creamy, then add the icing sugar and vanilla extract. 7. Slice fresh strawberries and cover one shortcake with them. Cover in cream, and add another shortcake to the top. Sprinkle with icing sugar and half a strawberry to serve. @omstarsofficial @xyience17 @k.deer @teekigram (at Deerfield Beach, Florida)

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Day 20!! Headstand! Our alternative to today’s pose.. 🤸🏼‍♀️💚 #30dayyogaliving “Make a change. Feel the heat of resistance melt away old habits and burn through ruinous conditioning. Offer negative behavior into the fire of tapas and chart your course toward freedom. NICOLAI BACHMAN THE PRACTICE OF YOGA IS part of a long and gradual process of deliberate external and internal transformation. Tapas, which is the third of the five niyama-s (personal practices), is the practice of actually implementing our plan for self-improvement. The word tapas derives from tap, meaning “to heat”. Real and permanent change in behavior creates heat from the friction of a new, positive pattern rubbing up against an old, negative one. This priceless heat of discomfort is the result of tapas. It can arise while we are exercising (such as during yoga āsana), breaking an old habit, changing our direction in life, or doing any other activity that causes positive change. The heat generated by practicing tapas will incinerate physical, mental, and emotional impurities, and refine the body, sensory organs, and heart-mind.” Excerpt From The Path of the Yoga Sutras Nicolai Bachman @kinoyoga @k.deer @xyience17 @omstarsofficial @liforme (at Boca Raton, Florida)

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Day 18!! #30dayyogaliving Utthita Parsvakonasana - Extended Side Angle “KARMA IS A POPULAR WORD with many connotations. Karma means action or activity that produces a result and leaves behind an energetic impression inside our heart-mind. Karma can originate from us as a thought, word, or deed, or it can be something we perceive with our senses, such as a movie we watch or song that we hear. Every karma has consequences, which may occur sooner or later and may be obvious “or subtle. Karma is recorded in our memory and, it is said, in the memory bank of the universe. On a cosmic level, Isaac Newton’s third law of motion states, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” The cause of an action contains its effects in subtle form. The universe is a continuous dance of energy. If we want to contribute the energy of kindness and compassion to the universe, we must act that way. Positive energy begets positive energy, and vice versa. For example, have you noticed how you feel around someone who is kind, generous, and happy? Does it make you feel more that way? On the other hand, when you are in the company of a negative, mean, pessimistic person, how do you feel? Our heart-mind (citta) influences and is influenced by whatever we choose to be around.” Excerpt From The Path of the Yoga Sutras Nicolai Bachman @kinoyoga @omstarsofficial @xyience17 @liforme @k.deer (at Deerfield Beach, Florida)

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Day 19!!! #30dayyogaliving Camel Pose (Ustrasana) “It’s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. BARBARA KINGSOLVER” “The clarity of our heart-mind determines how accurately an experience is stored in our memory. Whatever we think we saw or heard is what gets stored in our memory. Correct perception (pramāṇa) means the stored memories are truthful, while misperception (viparyaya) leads to untruthful memories. Clarification and purification of our heart-mind (citta-prasādana) is essential for seeing the world as it actually is. The process of yoga includes the gradual replacement of harmful or negative memories with helpful or positive ones. Whatever receives attention will strengthen, and whatever we pay no attention to will weaken. As we pay less attention to detrimental habits and give more attention to those that are beneficial, eventually the former are superseded by the latter. This process reprograms the heart-mind and moves us toward happiness and optimism.” Excerpt From The Path of the Yoga Sutras Nicolai Bachman @kinoyoga @omstarsofficial @xyience17 @k.deer @liforme #kinoyoga (at Boca Raton, Florida)

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Day 16!! #30dayyogaliving Crane pose- Bakasana “WE ARE ALL CONDITIONED BY our experience. Whenever we see, hear, taste, smell, touch, feel, think, speak, or act, our heart and mind are affected. It is our heart-mind field that accepts sensory input from outside, processes it, integrates it into ourselves, and remembers, ruminates, and directs the delivery of thoughts, words, and actions. The heart-“mind stores our experiences, including emotions, in memory, and over time uses this information to construct an identity that defines who we think we are. Citta is our heart-mind, our outer and inner psyche, and the primary place of interest in the Yoga Sūtras. Our heart-mind sits between the ever-changing outside world and an inner light of awareness. This inner light never changes, and it represents pure, unconditional love. A heart-mind sullied with mental-emotional baggage prevents the inner light from shining through, causing us to act or react according to our deep habitual patterns of behavior. As the heart-mind is clarified, more light can shine through it, and our actions become more loving and positive toward others and ourselves. One of the core aspects of yoga is the process of clarifying the heart-mind (citta-prasādana), so external objects are perceived accurately and truthfully.” Excerpt From The Path of the Yoga Sutras Nicolai Bachman @kinoyoga @omstarsofficial @teekigram @xyience17 🧘🏻‍♂️💜🧘🏼‍♀️ #yogiassignment (at Deerfield Beach, Florida)

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr. 📸 @xyience17 @teekigram @aloyoga #martinlutherkingjr 🧘🏼‍♀️💜🤸🏼‍♀️ (at Boca Raton, Florida)

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Day 17!! Wide angle seated foward bend -Upavistha Konasana #30dayyogaliving 🧘🏼‍♀️✨ “SEATED IN OUR HEART AND pervading every cell of our body lies a conscious, intelligent awareness. Individual uniqueness is due to our temporary, ever-changing body, breath, and mind. These outer layers of ourselves surround an inner, divine light of awareness called the puruṣa or ātman, which illuminates the truth and expresses love and compassion. Our thoughts and emotions can distort what we perceive, creating in our heart-mind a cloud that blurs what we register in memory. The process of yoga includes practices to quiet down and clarify our heart-mind so that this inner essence can shed light on whatever we experience and reveal what is true and actual.” Excerpt From The Path of the Yoga Sutras Nicolai Bachman @kinoyoga @omstarsofficial @xyience17 @teekigram (at Deerfield Beach, Florida)

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Day 15!!! Plank pose- Kumbhakasana This week’s Yogi Assignment is Sukha, the Sanskrit word for Ease. If you’re stressing out about the small details and worrying about how everything is going to work out you may miss the simple beauty that surrounds you. If you’re able to shift your mind to ease and flow, then you’ll walk through even the most difficult moments of your life with grace. Take the lesson of Sukha into the hardest poses of your practice. Ask yourself how you can find a space of peace even amidst great challenge. Whether that means accepting that your hips aren’t open yet and learning to love them anyway, or it means softening your practice instead of pushing too hard, move yourself into ease and flow. Self-soothing is a skill that is often hard to learn. When life feels overwhelming you need tools to calm your nervous system. Whether it’s getting a massage, sprinkling a bit of lavender oil, going for a walk, practicing yoga or spending time in prayer, finding moments of ease and flow in your life gives you an emotional safe space to heal. You’re not avoiding the pain by self-soothing, you’re giving yourself the foundation to heal. - @kinoyoga @omstarsofficial @xyience17 @teekigram #30dayyogaliving #practiceandalliscoming #yogiassignment (at Deerfield Beach, Florida)

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“Our eagerness to learn and the frequency of our practice will affect the velocity of learning. A person can be extremely excited to learn yoga, yet not have the discipline to follow through with the practices. If we are enrolled in a class because it is required for our degree or certificate, we may fall into boredom or become lackadaisical. Practicing often but in an inattentive way will also hamper progress. Ideally, we genuinely want to learn, are able to carve out time in our schedule to learn, and can maintain a regular and consistent practice for long enough to allow the knowledge we seek to sink in.” Excerpt From The Path of the Yoga Sutras Nicolai Bachman 📸Photo creds to my angel @xyience17 and thank you for offering your car as a prop for today’s impromptu photo shoot!! 🖤 #chrysler @yogajournal @teekigram @aloyoga (at Boca Raton, Florida)

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Day 13!! #30dayyogaliving Play with flight as you press into Tripod Headstand from Wide-legged Forward fold, which will work your core and connect you to your center. Increase your emotional bond. When you work out together, you create a context in which you can coordinate your actions. For example, you might lift weights in rhythm with your partner, match your own walking or running pace with his or hers, or toss medicine balls back and forth. Such behavior creates nonverbal matching, or mimicry, which benefits you both (Stel & Vonk, 2010). Nonverbal mimicry helps people feel emotionally attuned with one another, and those who experience or engage in it tend to report greater feelings of having “bonded” with their partner. Exercising together provides an opportunity to create such connection, benefiting both your health and your relationship. -Theresa E. DiDonato, Ph.D. @xyience17 @kinoyoga @omstarsofficial @liforme @yogapaws (at Deerfield Beach, Florida)

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Day 11!! Anjaneyasana- Deep Lunge #30dayyogaliving “Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you. SHENG YEN MAKING PROGRESS IN ANY ENDEAVOR requires time, effort, and focus. World-class athletes develop their prowess after many years of continuous practice. What we learn from teachers and books is important, yet secondary to the knowledge we acquire through direct experience. That which cannot be described in words and can only be alluded to, the knowledge of our inner Self (puruṣa), absolutely requires turning our attention inward on a regular basis. Abhyāsa is a disciplined, persistent effort to remain focused. This focus can occur during physical exercise (such as āsana), breath work (prāṇāyāma), meditation (saṁyama), or even the act of learning a musical instrument or driving a car. The sūtra-s state that abhyāsa is the effort required to maintain a focus, and it is to be done continuously over a long period of time, with sincerity and care. Abhyāsa involves a committed effort to maintain your chosen practice long enough to reap its rewards. Abhyāsa, along with viveka (keen discernment), is a primary practice that is fundamental to all progress” Excerpt From The Path of the Yoga Sutras Nicolai Bachman @kinoyoga @omstarsofficial @xyience17 @yogapaws @liforme (at Deerfield Beach, Florida)

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Day 12!!! #30dayyogaliving Warrior Pose, Virabhadrasana “TRUE INNER HAPPINESS RESTS UPON feeling content with who we are right now. Like the rest of the world, we are changing from moment to moment. Possessions flow in and out of our lives, people around us come and go, our opinions and even what we think is true changes over time. Our outer form is in flux around a deeper and permanent light of awareness (puruṣa). Complete satisfaction and contentment can be experienced when our heart-mind field of consciousness (citta) rests quietly in this awareness. Santoṣa, which is the second of the five niyama-s, is being grateful for what we have and content with who we are and where we are in life. According to the sūtra-s, when santoṣa is present, unexcelled happiness pervades our being. This feeling of contentment is not the same as what we feel when we have everything we ever wanted in life in terms of possessions, a partner, and an ideal job. Those things can all change. True santoṣa comes from the understanding that who we really are at the core is none other than that light of awareness that all beings share.” Excerpt From The Path of the Yoga Sutras Nicolai Bachman @kinoyoga @omstarsofficial @xyience17 @yogapaws @liforme (at Deerfield Beach, Florida)