Yoga with Katie Lasek

If love is the antidote to fear, sadness, anger, loss, grief, war...

How can you bring more love into your day? Into relationships, work, play, education & minute to minute decision making

I've been reflecting on this question everyday and it's been beautiful ❤️

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Free movement has been a wide open gateway for expressing myself freely, especially for when words just don't suffice

And self expression has been an essential outlet for cultivating the most self love I've had in years

I was crippled by 'cringe' just a year ago at the thought of moving my body the way I do know

I've learnt that 'cringe' is my biggest sign post for something I desperately need in my life

Don't think, just let the body move. It always, always knows what to do



📸 Thank you again for these beautiful photos

What is your relationship with your menstrual cycle? And if you're no longer menstruating, what was your relationship like?

The menstruation cycle is driven by hormones that impact our energy, creativity, mood, libido and sense of inner power - all of which undulate throughout the menstrual month

Women are not designed to be the same every day - yet we are expected to function that way

Once we learn to succumb to the inner whispers of our cyclical bodies, we can learn how to work with her, not against her 🩸🩸🩸🩸

More on this in an upcoming blog soon ❤️

The real challenge?

Integration...

It's all well and good immersing your soul in mystical teachings and trainings abroad in a tropical paradise, but it unfortunately is not reality for most of us

The challenge lies in bringing it all back home and figuring out what it looks like in my reality

So my question to myself has been this...

How can we find spirituality, vibrancy, aliveness and inspiration in the everyday? In the mundane, in the daily necessary to do list?

Where can we marvel at the immenseness of this existence even when it comes down to doing the shopping, commuting on the tube, doing the laundry or cooking dinner after a long day at work?



Beautiful mala from forever a reminder of energy, protection and love 💘

Something I've been reflecting on 💭

Our presence can be distorted or lost through the invasion of past events or future events. And then when we do find the present, we find ourselves on devices or doing anything BUT sitting with ourselves in the present

If we can come to the here and now in our bodies, maybe accompanied with deep, calming breaths, we can teach our bodies that it's safe to be here

That we don't need the distractions as much as our bodies have become to rely on it

There is safety in presence if we teach our bodies that is the case 🕊️

A few weeks ago, I finished training involving Taosim & Qi Gong, Ta**ra & Yin Yoga and Quantum Flow- a potent combination for deep shifts in my inner world

A core theme of this training was how we can alchemise or transform our suffering and grief into our greatest teachers

Something huge which landed so beautifully for me was that I am never ever alone on this journey, for I am in constant flow with the universe around me

Learning to pull back, soften & surrender for there is so little that is within my control and allow the magic of the unknown to unfold with grace

The biggest outpouring of gratitude for and for all of your wisdom, care and encouragement

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With all the overwhelming suffering continuing in Palestine, it's no wonder that we end up closing off our minds and hearts

Of course it deeply hurts to see starving families and dying children whose basic human rights have been completely obliterated

It's so much easier to take a neutral stance, with an attitude of 'What can I do?'

We are relational human beings- we need each other to survive - connection is innate and vital. To avoid empathy in this instance is to deny yourself the opportunity to express a primal human trait

If you have the freedom to make choices and you have a voice, use it for the people who have neither 💔💔💔💔

Let's move past apathy and open our hearts for those who are in critical need ❤️‍🩹

I think after all, I'm an Earth element gal 🏔️

The higher we got, the more diverse, tall, high, colourful, bold plentiful and bright nature became

Nature always reminds me of how it was always meant to be

And that it's ok to feel totally over stimulated by city life 🏙️

It's official 😎

Completing my sound healing training was a fascinating experience

Sound continues to be an incredible avenue for my own self expression

And the fact it can pe*****te into the depths of our body tissues, nervous systems, hearts, energy centres and souls makes it all the more magical and other worldly

The gong blew my mind 🤯

Learning from Deepak at was an honour 🧡

There's a sound healer coming back home to you soon ✨🕉️✨

What is embodiment?

For me, it means deeply experiencing what it is to be in my body in the here and now, in the context I'm living in.

It's when I'm not in my thinking, talking mode- but in feeling and sensing.

The more I've explored this topic, the more I've come to realise that particular social structures actually inhibit and shame us into disembodiment - being disconnected from our bodies.

Because being in our bodies is powerful.

Trust in our bodies threatens a lot of society's most profitable money makers.

Imagine if we were surrounded by messages to deeply connect with ourselves and the innate wisdom and self healing that comes with that... It would cause a lot of trouble for many industries right?

Being embodied is our absolute birth right.

It's never too late to reclaim our sense of aliveness

Reading is one of my greatest joys. What a privilege it is to open a new book and begin 🤩

And that's my kinda subtitle

Picture complete with burrito splat