Sacred Cow Yoga Studio, Ipswich

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Perfect. See you at YOga in the moring at 9:30
15 Lawrence street, North Ipswich.

10 commandments
of the YOUniverse

YOGA STARTS AT 6 PM
TONIGHT

CLASS TONIGHT WE START AT 6:00

You can hear the ocean inside yourself.
Not as imagination.
Not as metaphor only.
But as the subtle sound of breath when the body becomes quiet, the chest opens, and the mind learns to observe.

Geeta S. Iyengar taught pranayama as a disciplined and subtle practice.

The body must be prepared.
The breath must be refined.
The mind must learn to watch without force.

One way to understand this approach is through three parts:
The body is the laboratory.
It provides the conditions — a quiet seat, an open chest, and a spine that can hold its length without strain.
Until the body can sit in stillness without complaint, pranayama cannot begin in earnest.

This is why asana comes first.
The breath is the experiment.
Not something to seize.
Not something to dominate.

Something to study.
Its length.
Its texture.
Its sound.
Its pauses.

The work is not to push the breath further each day.
The work is to observe it more closely.

The mind is the observer.
Not commentary.
Not impatience.
Not ambition.
Just watching.

When the mind learns to watch without interference, the breath becomes quieter, subtler, and more receptive.

Pranayama is powerful. It deserves respect.

It is not a breathing exercise to learn casually from a video or post. In the Iyengar tradition, it is introduced progressively, after the body has been prepared through consistent asana practice, and under the guidance of a qualified teacher.

What has your experience of pranayama been — difficult, quiet, surprising, or deeply calming?

Maybe the next great spiritual revolution isn’t enlightenment.

Maybe it’s the end of the search for enlightenment.

The end of positive thinking as a substitute for grieving.

The end of using meditation to avoid our anger, non-duality to avoid our wounds, transcendence to avoid our deepest pain.

Maybe what we are truly hungry for is not a higher state of consciousness, but radical permission to be gloriously, heartbreakingly, magnificently human.

To experience fear without calling it failure.

To experience doubt without trying to heal it.

To feel anger without judging it.

To feel down without labelling it a “low vibration.”

To discover that ordinary life, with all its messiness and tenderness, was never standing in the way of awakening.

It was the damn way.

- Jeff Foster

Sharing this tonight to help us all wake up tomorrow realising there is no hurry. We are not late. We are not failures nor are we even flawed…

We are simply (gloriously) alive and that’s a messy (glorious) situation - for each and every (glorious) one of us.

You’re not a robot. You can’t be programmed. Sometimes your soul will lead you places knowing that beauty lives there and if you are too-chained to a routine, it can often hold you back.

The voices in your head get louder when your soul gets closer to freedom… a bit like a metal detector machine that beeps when it senses treasure under the dirt.

Let it beep.

Let the critic in your head shout if she must but stick with the voice that whispers with an unwavering certainty.

That’s your gut. And she’s on your side.

The rest crept in many years ago and feed off your fears and failings. Cut off the food supply - a failure isn’t a thing anyway… some things end so that new things can begin (gloriously).

So. Sunday well tomorrow my loves, no room for criticism. No one is doing your life better than you. Fact

Donna x

the soul & the human

HI HO Hi ho..off to Yoga I go….we start at 9:30