JAIYOFLOW BLOG
Is Online Yoga For You?
Even though the teacher’s voice is guiding you, you are showing up for you. Period. Establishing that resource of commitment within will only feed other areas of your life and serve you over time.
Wood Element-Hope in One’s Path
My outward expression and character are the Wood Element personified. It is parts of myself that I have trouble accepting: loud, intense, pushy, demanding. I wanted to transform my perception of the wood element…
Awaken the Heart/Mind-Bodhichitta
How do we open our hearts to a world full of hate and suffering? The Buddhist tradition has some recommendations. One foundation of Buddhist thought is that everything in reality within an individual and in the world is in constant flux and change. The reason we suffer…
Renewal and Appreciating Beauty
Beauty as a form of meditation in life can take many shapes. Connect to nature and practice expanding your periphery, as if breathing with your skin, taking in all the colors and sounds.
Water Element and Wu Wei (Effortless Action)
Five Element Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong have taught me to be like nature by witnessing them through the seasons. I am pleased to say this is the first winter of my whole life (I grew up in Colorado even though I left for a decade) that I fell in love with the Winter season.
Steadiness in a Consistent (Yoga) Practice
In this conversation, we explore the power of consistency and routine when it comes to stepping on our mats.
As the essential self-care, yoga draws us into our physical, energetic, spiritual, and mind practices.
In this post, we explore: The three qualifications of Practice
Time
Without breaking
Sincerity, devotion, earnestness
Power in Practice
The Practice of Yoga brings people together in a safe, sacred exploration of form—forms of the mind, body, and breath.
In this post we explore:
A Discovery of Self
The Science of Yoga and the Art of Intention
Accessing the State of Yoga
Living Your Unique Yoga
Release Resistance
The definition of resistance is “the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. The opposition offered by one thing, force, etc., to another.”
In psychiatry, it is opposition to an attempt to bring repressed thoughts or feelings into consciousness.” Resistance is something I feel often.
Fall- A welcomed shedding for the Artist (Metal element)
Their inner sight is searching beyond the clouds, being patient enough for the clouds to dissolve and sitting with the expanse of the vast sky. Metal loves inspiration, and clarity like gazing into a quartz crystal.