Everything is new

We often look to gain experience, gain status, gain labels, gain money, gain love. Gain is such a common theme but we forget to look at things with new points of view and live in our present moment. This can allow us to be more playful in life and therefore able to discover new abilities and experiences. Newness is hard to come by -as each day passes we further ourselves away from our true nature and forget playfulness.

last day at Ananda

Offerings at Ananda Ashram

Expanding your consciousness

Going inward and getting in touch and in balance with ourselves is a common meditation practice. Expanding your consciousness is the next step. Notice your relationships with your surroundings. Can you harmonize your energy to expand into the room you're meditating in? And then expand out to the neighborhood, city, state and country? Can you expand your consciousness to encompass the entire Earth? Can you expand to the galaxy and out to the universe? This is not an easy practice so don't feel discouraged if it causes anxiety for you, even. Can you get your energy still and steady so that it does not cause you anxiety? It's difficult to encompass more than you, but being able to connect to nature can create better healing and balancing in your body.

Imagine a magnetic field that is just 3 inches around your body. Feel the white light that surrounds you and expand it out to the sides of the room. Feel how your body is held in this space and the surface that hold the space in. Feel your seat on the ground and feel your crown being held up. Feel expansion.

Progress

Nothing beats seeing the progress in your Yoga practice. Sometimes you hate your yoga, until its over and THEN you feel great. Or you don't feel like you're progressing fast enough, you still can't touch your toes, "everyone else" can do jump forwards or your scorpion is still 5 years in the making. All of these things come with time. Although its great for us to set goals that we want to reach its also important to remember that yoga is not based on a reward system. The practice itself is the purpose and if you will, the reward. Being consistent in the practice and being present with it is when we can really start to reap the benefits of Yoga. We can't win at Yoga but we can allow it to let us feel awesome.

Bunny Yoga..hoppy Easter!

I don't know who's original art this is, but its GREAT! Love it!

What is Reiki?

I just got Reiki III certified!

Reiki is the laying on of hands for energy healing. 

If you'd like to try some good Reiki juju come to Jai Yoga Arts!

Community Reiki event
This workshop is for both Reiki practitioners and non-practitioners!

Feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or off balance? Come experience Reiki healing sessions with certified practitioners. Enjoy a relaxing,
balancing, and rejuvenating technique in a warm and supportive environment.

Are you a Reiki practitioner? This series at Jai allows you to develop your skill and strengthen your confidence and connection to universal life force energy.

Saturday April 6th, 13th, and 20th from 2-4pm
$40 for whole series
$35 early bird pay by March 30th
$15 drop-in session

Spirit and Emotion

Today someone asked me..."how do you feel emotionally?" I felt pretty good. But then they asked "how do you feel spiritually?" Initially I wanted to put the two together but I realized....spiritually I felt off and disconnected. Mostly bc I slept weird and my neck and back was bothering me. I felt my back and spine were greatly out of alignment which made me feel like I was not in alignment with myself and had a harder time connecting with what was around me because I was kind of in pain. Though I am still feeling this I do have to say I got a 5-10 min massage and my neck sort of went back into its proper place and although I'm still hurting...it really improved my whole day by tenfold! The moral of the story is, when your stuff is not lined up properly, your spirit can suffer. Get a damn massage, yo! I am doing that manana...like STAT!

Yoga pants.

Yoga and Meditation with Community Access