Merry Christmas everyone. Everything you need is right here in this moment. 🙏🏻🎄🎁 . 📷 by @max.headroom88 http://bit.ly/2AiXvSn

Cultivate a radical state of gratitude for who you are, a state of total fulfillment. This is yoga. As Krishna tells Arjuna, establish yourself in yoga and then act from there. Because we want to cultivate this kind of heart-based life, to learn to live from the heart. ❤️ Surrender into a state from which you can receive love, where nothing is missing, where you come home to yourself 🏡 In this state you are invincible. This is #yoga #aarti #surrender #varanasi #india https://ift.tt/2BuKsNs

You can do whatever you want. This is a core belief that I held for many years intellectually but never embodied or truly felt until about 2 years ago. And that shift was essential to the journey I’ve been navigating for the past two years. And it probably goes without saying that yoga has been the primary factor in this. . What a magical, intense, transformative year 2018 has been. These photos reflect how much of it has taken place in #India, much like 2017. But also #NYC and South Carolina. Thank you to all the friends who made this journey so enjoyable and, at times, challenging 🙏🏻 Can’t wait to see what 2019 holds.... #topnine2018 #topnine #yoga #expansion #celebration . Middle photo by @thedjpierce; top left @sonomatti ; top right and middle left by @pennie_loves ; top middle @den__sen https://ift.tt/2ChdZvH

“For the faithful, the patient, and the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world—not a life and death perhaps, which are merely words; but the important things—work out rather beautifully.” —J.D. Salinger, a longtime yogi and student of the Vedas . . I’m about 3/4 of the way through my teaching and #gurukul here at @sattvayogaacademy with @theanandmehrotra. The current batch of #yoga teacher trainees is truly an inspiration. I’ve taken all the opportunities that have arisen to face myself and transcend old patterns, karma, limitations; to evolve as best I can. And these morning meditations by the river, even at 45°F are simply sublime. I’m off to Bali in 10 days, then back here in early January. Life is beautiful 🌄🏝🤸🏻‍♂️🙏🏻🧘🏻‍♂️ #meditation #india #ashramlife #gratitude #grace https://ift.tt/2rwT81a

In yoga we don’t try to figure out our “purpose” in life. This is not dharma. Instead, we work with the entire spectrum of yogic practices, including kriya, tapaha, self-awareness, and devotion, to realize our true nature and then act in each moment with spontaneous right action. Through this process, nature expresses itself through us with great ease and grace. As we act more purposefully, we move away from karma. This is #dharma. #yoga https://ift.tt/2Qr4nav

The inimitable @devielenarose and I are teaching an intro to Sattva Yoga workshop in #NYC on August 25th at @reflectionsyoga 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️ . To register look for Events ▶️ Workshops in the link in my bio ⤴️ . This two-hour journey will combine asana, pranayama, kriya, and other forms of movement to find dynamism in stillness and foster a state of bliss. It will be a vigorous, expansive, and heart-opening journey into the magic that is you. Hope to see you there! #sattva #yoga #shiva #shakti #asana #kriya #pranayama #hariom 🖼 by @devielenarose https://ift.tt/2KyvacX

"When you no longer are projecting your mind-world onto everything, you naturally start to notice the rhythmic dance of life-energy all around you. This integration into the deeper pattern can give rise to astonishing synchronicities, even a sense of magic, as seeing how everything fits with everything else allows your own life to flow more effortlessly." (Christopher Wallis, Tantra Illuminated) . . Satsang / wisdom circle tonight, 7pm in Tompkins Square Park at the Passive Lawn. Come by if you can; we’ll discuss the state of yoga and what Tantra is.... More info on my Facebook page: Woodford Yoga 🧘🏻‍♂️ #yoga #tantra #satsang #mind #danceoflife #shiva #natarajasana . . 📷 @thedjpierce https://ift.tt/2m5iQqS

A memoir #troy https://ift.tt/2KXKkwY

The road to #Manhattan https://ift.tt/2ySGWOM

“When a sufficient number of contemporary people have reentered nature’s soulstream and become conscious contributors to the unfolding story of the world, industrialized nations might mature into sustainable, ecocentric, and soulcentric communities, inhabited by people who are wildly creative, imaginative, adventurous, tolerant, generous, joyous, and cooperative members of the more-than-human world.” —Bill Plotkin . Thinking about the unfolding story of the world as I wait for a friend in #CentralPark #nyc https://ift.tt/2KhAGov

Sorry, couldn’t resist another #NYC #park #sunset photo 🏙 https://ift.tt/2I6e1pR

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; There is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” -T.S. Eliot #sunset #poetry #nyc https://ift.tt/2JPQEXA

Everyone in #NYC is so beautiful. So are you #NYC 🗽🌇 #spring #weather #sunset #bliss https://ift.tt/2y9Mvbx

“Adult humans tend to be afraid of letting go of a self-image that matches a role they understand, despite how stale it has become, unless a new prospect is already being offered. But Awareness doesn’t work that way: it seeks to melt into flowing possibility before reforming in organic response to its situation.” — @hareeshwallis, The Recognition Sutras . . I hesitate to post photos of “advanced” #yoga #asana poses because I feel like it’s more of a distraction from yoga than anything. People become obsessed with advancing their physical practice and nailing some pose instead of evolving and expanding the Self. But then again, you never know what the journey toward a certain asana will bring. 🧘🏻‍♂️✨ #mayurasana #centralpark #nyc . . Also, have you seen my new yoga website? woodford.yoga . . . 📷 @thedjpierce https://ift.tt/2xSfAYA

“When you experientially realize that the same beautiful and awesome powers that orchestrate the intricate and wondrous display of this entire creation are flowing within you, creating you even as you create with them, providing the very foundation of your whole experience of reality, there is a profound shift. Your fear and pettiness drop away as you harmoniously fall into the dance of life energy, realizing that you have been the only one who has ever limited your potential. An explosion of joy accompanies the realization that there is nothing to do, nothing to achieve, other than to fully embrace the divine powers that seek to manifest through you by expressing the entirety of your authentic being in the fullness of each moment, in an endless flow of such moments.” — Christopher Wallis, Tantra Illuminated #yoga #tantra #joy #bliss #ananda 📷 @sonomatti https://ift.tt/2sB03Xm

Social media challenge! What would happen if you set aside 20–30 minutes a day just to focus on love and gratitude? Maybe use some of the time you would normally spend scrolling on this thing. If you commit to doing this for 21 days you might be surprised at what happens 💓🙏🏻🧘🏻‍♂️🧘🏻‍♀️ #love #gratitude #sadhana #challenge https://ift.tt/2LdjKfC

Somehow I ended up in some of the new @sattvaconnect videos with these beautiful souls. Coming soon! 🧘🏻‍♂️ #yoga #kriya https://ift.tt/2IMMOxO