JulieGeissler.Yoga

🧡 How does the concept of ‘less is more’ align with yoga?
➡️ Do you keep adding more and more activity to your life… without pausing to consider how complex your life is becoming?

🙈 That was me… midlife… doing, doing, doing…
At one point I paused long enough to let go of a role… To shift direction…
Though I still kept adding more and more doing…

🪷 In yoga there is a concept called kaivalya, which means to be free.
➡️ When you have more entanglements, you have more suffering.
🪷 It is the basic principle of the dharsanas.

❗️ Sometimes we cling to things - roles and possessions long past the time when they serve us.

🧡 Yoga therefore invites us to seek less complexity… to get comfortable with:
Less entanglement
Less compulsive activity
Less need (possessions)

🧘🏻‍♀️ The practice
Less is more freedom

✅ As you let go of possessions that you no longer need, release your attachment…
✅ As you transition from one stage of life to the next, release your attachment to that past self, turn your focus to present possibilities (now)
✅ As you choose not to do something, recall how you may be giving yourself the ‘gift of time’

“When the mind is quiet, there is more freedom, less compulsion, less entanglement in experiences we have no control over.” Ganesh Mohan / Svastha Yoga

🪷 In your yoga practice on the mat discover:

➡️ Less tension and stress in the body
➡️ Less effort and less necessary breathing
➡️ Less stimulation and entanglement for the senses
➡️ Less of the constant activity of the mind

Notice how this brings you:
🧡 More freedom
🧡 More rest
🧡 More recovery
🧡 More choice from that freedom

The true impact of the practice can only be felt…
It can’t be captured on camera.

I sit in deep appreciation for my clients gentle observation of the impact of their practice today.

There was more… but it can’t even be captured in words.
It is a lived embodied experience, a feeling state, a bhavana.

Mindful Movement
Tuesday 11:00 -12:00
Lone Wolf Studio
Ushaw Historic House

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Soul Sunday yoga workshop is a space where you get to savour an extended practice drawing on the Svastha yoga domains / skills…
🤗 and this month it’s exciting to see that Soul Sunday has landed on both the mid-summer solstice which also happens to be International Yoga Day, the theme of which is Healthy Aging (Yes, we love that theme!)

☀️ The summer solstice (21ST June) is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky.
It’s considered by many to be a time of heightened energy, transformation, and spiritual significance…

🔥 It’s a time to bring fresh commitment to your process
And it’s an opportunity to deepen the bhavana / the feeling state that accompanies your practice
And to support your ability to return to your practice, whenever you want and need

➡️ In this Soul Sunday Workshop
🧡 Review and clarify your intention for practice
🧡 Reflect on your personal goals… visualise your next step(s)
🧡 Practice gratitude; celebrate abundance, vitality and life
🧡 Discover strengthening postures to practice in place of Sun Salutation
🧡 Explore core principles that enhance your practice
🧡 Gain historical context for your practice
🧡 Integrate: asana/movement, pranayama, pratyahara, meditation/mantra…
🧡 Explore aspects of the yamas and niyamas and their relevance in your life
🤗 Enjoy a welcome tea and homemade snacks (including delicious cookies)

➡️ Who is this for?
Anyone who desires to strengthen their yoga practice from within, to gain fresh insight and motivation for practice. No impossible shapes are required.

“When you look inside — your process, your effort, your rate of learning — there is always something to improve.” James Clear – Atomic Habits

🤗 How to book:
Book via Glow Fox Lone Wolf Vision

I was asked - did you greet the sun with Sun Salutations on the Inner Harmony Retreat? And the answer is No!

From the Svastha Yoga perspective…

➡️ we explored domains and skills and this meant adapting and modifying the practices and teaching basic principles of practice that carry across into life!
➡️ we moved the spine in all directions without Sun Salutation - using key accessible standing postures
➡️ we avoided overloading the shoulders with downward dog, plank and chaturanga… keeping the practice more accessible to all

✅ Instead we focused on mastering:
💪🏼The Agile Aging Flow for Healthy Aging
💪🏼A Warrior Flow for Inner Strength
💪🏼A Goddess Flow for Balance and Harmony
Incorporating the key skills and domains
Building intention
Connecting with the breath

☀️ And yes, we greeted the sun - with these flows - appreciating all the positive qualities and bhavanas / feeling states that yoga invites into our lives.

The truth is your most special memories aren’t always planned; they arise from your presence of being and inner feeling states… of awe, joy, love…

🪷 And this final practice on our Inner harmony Retreat 2026 was no exception…

🧡 There was a desire and an intention for this extra practice from the whole group,
🧡 and they all rose at the crack of dawn to greet the rising sun together.

It was truly the most beautiful practice to end our week at

➡️ Following a guided practice
All stood like mountains facing the sun,
Recalling their inner intention
For all the beautiful qualities that they are inviting into their lives
Through the practice of yoga….

🪷 calmness and clarity
🪷 balance and harmony
🪷 compassion and kindness
🪷 benevolence and friendliness
🪷 strength and vitality
🪷 stability and flow
🪷 mobility and flexibility
🪷 adaptability
🪷 ease and comfort

🙏🏼 Deep appreciation to all the team behind this annual retreat
(the leader, the creative vision and concept)
(the castle, the views, the practice space, the pool, the scrumptious food, the day trips, the local knowledge, the ambiance… and so much more)

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 And to all the amazing ladies who joined the retreat this year! It was a delight to be your yoga teacher for a week… with almost twice daily yoga you clocked up around 15 hours of practice… breath, movement, stillness…creating deep transformation from within.