Creative Flow

🌺 Women’s Wellness
🌼 yoga & meditation
🌸 Classes for relaxation & growth

Classes just for you to stretch, release and relax, your mind & body.

Facilitated by yoga alliance teacher Sarah Blake.

Email: [email protected]

Yoga is not solely what we practice, but how we practice.

In the Yoga Sutras, the physical practice is presented as sthira sukham āsanam: posture that is steady and easeful. This teaching invites us to look beyond the shape itself and pay attention to the quality of our experience within it.

The physical yoga practice becomes a doorway: a place to study breath, sensation, effort, resistance, and the subtle ways the mind and energy respond.

Can we stay connected to the breath? Can we meet effort without forcing? Can we soften where we are gripping and steady ourselves where we feel scattered?

Over time, “advanced” may begin to look less like reaching the fullest expression of a pose and more like practicing with honesty, steadiness, care, and discernment.

That kind of practice may not always look impressive from the outside, but it can transform the way we move, breathe, and live.

Tag someone who’s redefining what “advanced yoga” looks like on social media.

Curious what this shift can look like over years of practice?

Sarah Ezrin shares a beautiful reflection on the journey from chasing poses to practicing with deeper awareness in “The More I Practice Yoga, the Fewer Poses I Can Do.”

Read more here: https://yogainternational.com/article/view/sthira-and-sukha-steadiness-and-ease/

HOW TO PROCESS YOUR FEELINGS (Without Being Controlled by Them)

Feelings are not problems to fix.
They are messages to understand.

Most suffering doesn’t come from emotions themselves —
it comes from resisting them, suppressing them, or becoming lost inside them.

Here’s how to process your feelings with awareness, not avoidance:

1. PAUSE
Before reacting, pause.

Take a breath.
Slow your body down.

This pause creates space between what you feel and what you do.
In that space, wisdom can arise.

In Buddhism, this moment of pause is mindfulness —
the ability to see clearly instead of acting blindly.

Not every emotion needs an immediate response.
Some only need your attention.

2. NAME IT
Give the feeling a name.

Anger.
Sadness.
Fear.
Disappointment.
Joy.

Naming an emotion takes away its power to overwhelm you.
What is named becomes observed, not possessed.

You are not “angry.”
Anger is arising within you.

This subtle shift reminds you:
You are the observer, not the emotion.

3. FEEL IT (WITHOUT JUDGMENT)
Sit with the emotion instead of pushing it away.

Don’t label it as good or bad.
Don’t rush to escape it.
Don’t shame yourself for feeling it.

Feelings are like waves —
they rise, peak, and fall if you don’t fight them.

In Buddhist practice, this is equanimity:
allowing what is, without clinging or aversion.

What you resist persists.
What you allow, softens.

4. ASK WHY
Gently explore the root.

What triggered this feeling?
What expectation was unmet?
What attachment was touched?

Often, emotions reveal hidden truths —
unhealed wounds, unmet needs, or false stories we tell ourselves.

This is not about blaming yourself or others.
It’s about understanding.

Awareness turns pain into insight.

5. RELEASE
Once understood, let it move through you.

Breathe deeply.
Write it out.
Speak to someone you trust.
Sit quietly and watch it fade.

Feelings are energy.
If they are not expressed or released, they become stored tension.

Release does not mean forgetting.
It means not carrying unnecessary weight.

6. SHIFT
After release, gently redirect your energy.

Toward calm.
Toward kindness.
Toward something constructive.

Not as an escape —
but as a conscious choice.

This is wisdom in action:
choosing peace over rumination, growth over repetition.

FINAL TRUTH.

Feelings are temporary guests.
They come to teach, not to stay forever.

Suffering begins when you cling.
Freedom begins when you observe, understand, and let go.

You don’t need to control your emotions.
You need to befriend them — and know when to let them leave.

🧘‍♂️ Nothing that arises is meant to be held onto forever.

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It is easy to forget how blessed we are.

To wake up.
To eat a meal.
To move our bodies.
To breathe without effort.
To care for others — and to be cared for.

We often chase big moments and overlook the quiet miracles that happen every day. Yet even the tired moments, the long days, and the ordinary routines mean one simple thing: we are alive.

🍃 The body working is a blessing.
🍃 A full breath is a gift.
🍃 Another morning is not guaranteed.

Gratitude is not found in perfection.
It is found in noticing.

Buddhist wisdom teaches mindfulness — seeing clearly what is already here. When we slow down enough to appreciate the ordinary, life becomes rich without needing more.

👉 A warm bed.
👉 A shared meal.
👉 A kind word.
👉 The ability to move, think, feel.

These are not small things.

🌱 Gratitude doesn’t deny struggle.
It reminds us that even within struggle, life is still offering us something.

And that is what makes life truly beautiful —
not what is extraordinary,
but what is quietly, faithfully present every day.

Chair Fit
Alternate Wednesdays 10.30-11.30
Arthur's Shed
Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, Cambridge.
All very welcome, specialised class for those experiencing life living well and those managing chronic illness and pain.

https://www.arhc.org.uk/open-to-all/arthurs-shed/