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✨️Eka Pada Rajakapotasana — A New Year Invitation✨️

As winter whispers its call to surrender, Eka Pada Rajakapotasana guides us into the dance of effort and release. The body bends, the heart lifts, opening a portal to new beginnings. As we enter a new year, this asana reminds us that the path of yoga is not about perfection, but devotion to presence, to awakening, and to the quiet inner work that unfolds over time.

In this heart-opening posture, the physical form is simply a doorway or portal. Beneath the stretch lies abhyasa -- steady practice, and vairagya -- the gentle release of what we no longer need to hold. We soften the outer body so the inner body can listen. We meet the edges of sensation with compassion instead of force. We root into the earth so the heart can rise toward spaciousness.

While the front body opens and the back supports, this asana reminds us that growth is held by grounding. The hips, a place where emotions often rest, are invited to surrender, not because we push, but because we soften, because we trust.

Yoga teaches that each moment is a new beginning. Each breath an arrival. Each practice a returning to our essence -- already whole, already complete.

As this new year begins, may we move gently.
May we bow to the wisdom of the body.
May we remember that true transformation begins within. May our hearts continue to open toward compassion, clarity, and connection.

May we move into 2026 with open heart, softened hips, and a soul ready to receive the light of possibility.❤️🙏✨️

Attune with the moon! As the New Moon 🌚 enters Pisces, it is a time to open your heart, consciously connect with those whom you care, and let go of all that no longer serves you. It's the perfect time to tap into your intuition, listen to the inner callings of the heart, soften, and lean into our dreams. It's a time to eliminate self-doubt and live in our beliefs to better co-create a life we desire.

In it's highest expression, Pisces is sensitive, intuitive, compassionate and spiritual. It encourages us to open to others while maintaining healthy boundaries.

Each new moon I plant the seeds of intention through meditation, ritual, & journaling. It can be helpful to align with the celestial forces at play in general or hone in to where it lands in your chart. For example, Pisces is my sun sidereal and my 2nd house Tropical. The 2nd house is associated with values, beliefs, money, fears, home, material and non material posessions,possessions, your aesthetic, and virtues. The means by we enhance our lives. So I will combine the two and set intentions respective to cultivating greater heart-centered alignment with my beliefs and values to move/step further into my authenticity and shine my light rather than dimming.

What intentions do you plan on setting?

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Reflectors stand alone! Totally unique in perspective and extraordinary in their role.

Not-self Theme: Disappointment
Strategy: Waiting a Lunar Cycle
Signature: Surprise

Reflectors make up approximately 1% of the population. They experience and process energy differently. They are sensitive to the celestial bodies and Energies that surround them. They are here to sample, reflect, and judge the quality of the environment on any given day. They can suss put authenticity and serve as a mirror. Therr are herr to judge what is working correctly and what isn't. When people become awake, Reflectors are there to share and reflect on what they have sampled, which is the process of how they move to the center and become visible. They enliven and lift up the energy of others. They are able to facilitate an experience of heighte ed awareness in a non-judgmental way. They are extremely effective Facilitators.
Reflectors magnify the frequency of everyone and things in an environment. This is a window of wisdom. They are designed to operate in alignment with Lunar programming. The Reflector's glow is subtle but influence substantial when detected, much like the moon.

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It's the time of the year when the veil between the 🌎 s is thinner. A time to remember our loved one's who have passed and offer gratitude to the lineage of ancestors who came before us. Samhain, which originated with the Celts during the Iron Age celebrates the mid-point between Fall Equinox and Winter Solstice; marking the end of the Celtic year and the beginningof the new one. It is the time where the family's ancestors are honored and invited home while harmful spirits were warded off. Halloween evolved from Samhain.

By the 9th century, Christianity incorporated a mixture of Celtic ritual with the honoring of the dead into the Christian calendar with All Saints (All Hallows) on November 1st, followed by All Souls on November 2nd.

El Día de los Mu***os, is a Mexican holiday where families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a brief reunion that includes food, drink and celebration. The holiday is celebrated each year from October 31-November 2.

So whatever your Jam tonight and the next few day - Happy Samhain, All Hallows Eve, Halloween 🎃 👻 , El Día de los Mu***os, or Sunday😘

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7 ways to start setting intentions in 2023

1. Charge crystals in the full moon light

2. Find and attune to a word to embody for the year

3. Epsom Salt Bath to clear negativity and add magnesium

4. Write Intention for the year in the present 55 times/5 days in a row
5. Clear out the clutter

6. Smudge your house to clear negative energy

7. Blow cinnamon in your front door the first or close to the fist of the month for abundance

𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗔 | Be the tortoise, not the hare

𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗮𝘁𝗮:

Cold, light, dry, rapid, changing and mobile

How to Practice in a 𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝘁𝗮:

𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗮𝘁𝗮: Warming, weight bearing, humid, slow and steady

1. Choose slow, steady classes over rapid power yoga. Moderate long holds and restorative yoga is also appropriate. Forward bends and twists in yoga reduce vata in the body and mind. When practicing, hug muscles to the bones for added support. Do not hold poses for too long, so as to avoid exhaustion.

2. Exercise with a breath that inhales all the way down to your roots. Breathe into your pelvic floor, lower back, and abdomen.

3. End all exercise with rest. Take a savasana (co**se pose) even if you aren’t practicing yoga asana.

𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀:

• Standing, Seated and Supine Forward Bends
• Siddhasana (Perfect Pose; Seated Asana)
• Janu Sirsasana ( Head-to-Knee pose)
• Vrksasana (Tree Pose)
• Parighasana (Gate Pose)
• Bhujangasana (Cobra) or Salabhasana (Locus)
• Balasana (Child’s Pose)
• Savasana (Co**se Pose): ~20 min

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