Yoga with Terri Powell

07/29/2026

Saucha , the blessing of purity. Everything in its natural raw form and state. That is what purity is. It is not always an action to always be good and pious, if you will. It is accepting the moment you’re in, the person you are, accepting the people around you and who they are. Accepting nature and circumstances as they exist, that is purity.

 Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with truth, always trust, always hopes. always preserves.
-Corinthians 13:4-7

An active practice of saucha does mean to not have negative judgmental thoughts, actions against yourself, others, society, circumstances, etc. However, that is a big pedestal to climb. Finding yourself on top of that pedestal or believing yourself to be on top of that pedestal is also ego and arrogance which is the opposite of saucha. To find yourself here is truly unobtainable as we are human. We make mistakes every day. To be in 100% state of Saucha is Godlike and we are not that.

Like love, Saucha is just as it exists. We experience and feel love and Saucha. It does not define us, but flows through us. We just try our best to be like it by doing the right thing.

However, practicing Saucha also means accepting our perfectly imperfect selves even the negative parts us, our Moon tendencies, our shadow side. It means stop being your worst critic, stop being so hard on yourself, stop being so self judgmental. We do need to correct our wrongs and move forward. However, wallowing in guilt, shame, and self pity is forgetting that you also have good parts and that is being ungrateful to yourself. Move forward, learn, change the bad behavior and then leave yourself alone. Don’t be stuck in reverse.

~Namaste,
Terri

07/06/2026

Channeling the Emma Knight in myself 😂

07/04/2026

06/30/2026

Your whole life will change when you realise that no one’s watching.

No really cares about your flaws, your mistakes, or your problems.

Most people are so caught up with themselves, too busy worrying about their own lives, and trying to figure out solutions to their own problems.

People aren’t as together as you think they are.

They may glance in your direction for a moment but they’ll always come back to their life and what they need to do.

Yet you sit there absorbing opinions and other peoples perceptions of you when they’re not even thinking about you anymore.

People don’t care about what you do as much as you think they do.

People aren’t watching you as much as you think they are.

So stop worrying so much and stop wasting so much of your time worrying about how you’re going to be perceived by others.

Make the decisions you need to make for yourself, because no one else is walking the path that you’re walking.

No one else has been through what you've been through.

No one else feels what you feel.

The only people who are ever going to judge your flaws, your mistakes, even what you’re doing to try and make your life better, are the people who aren’t happy and productive in their own lives, and they need to talk about you because they’ve got nothing else better going on in their own life.

No one who is happier than you, more successful than you, has a happier relationship that you, or trying to make a positive difference in their life or the lives of others will ever speak negatively of you for making decisions or trying to do things that make your life better.

Let go of people's opinions when they haven't walked in your shoes.

~ Mark Smith
© The Super Powered Mind

06/29/2026

Aparigraha-Nonattachment, nonposseive

We can’t open space in our lungs for the next inhale if we don’t exhale first. There is no inhale without the exhale. When we hold our breath we hold the toxins in.

Perhaps our fears keep us white knuckled… holding, grasping to possessions, thoughts, experiences that really no longer serve us or we think there is security that it will serve us the same as it did in our past.

Do we have clutter all about our homes that weighs us down? Do these possessions hold an attachment to us? Making us feel a false sense of security?

Do we hold onto grudges, opinions, judgements that clutter our minds and hearts to not be able to enjoy the day, the moment we are in?

Are we being overly righteous and not facing our wrongs or cowardly holding onto our guilt and lowering our self worth so that we don’t have to change and live our life in a way that bring us peace today?

Do we try to force or control outcomes so that we can hold on to how we want it to be? Not allowing life to come to us as it’s going to anyway?

Are we gripping onto self preservation, holding back too much, closing ourselves up, keeping our walls up and thinking this keeps us safe rather than living and loving as fully as we can?

If there is anything sure in this world, change is one thing we can depend on. People change, wants and needs change, change is inevitable. We never know what tomorrow brings and if we don’t allow ourselves to be open, we may miss some great moments.

Asteya is about not taking what is not yours, Brahmacharya is about not taking too much and Aparigraha is about letting go of what you do not need.

When we stop holding on to what we don’t need, we are freeing up space in our hearts, minds and physical space for what is here and what is to come.

“What we try to possess actually possesses us.”

~Namaste
Terri

06/23/2026

Brahmacharya (non excess)

This 4th Niyama is about knowing when to say when. When pouring into your cup and not allowing it overflow. Wasting all the good that is allowed to flow out as waste. Knowing to say to yourself, that’s enough, I have all that I need.

This Niyama goes hand and hand with Asteya. While Asteya is taking only what is yours and not more. Brahmacharya is realizing exactly how much or little you actually need. Not leading a life of excess, where self worth and the mindset that the good life is obtained through more which really just ends up as a life lead in gluttony.

Less is more. Less is more appreciated and less lets you live with gratitude. Practice pleasure without excess.

When we over eat, spend, shop, overwork, oversleep, over exercise, over entertain/experience, over s*x ourselves…we no longer find, see or feel the sacredness of our day to day living. Our senses our dulled and we become addicted to more, thinking the more we seek out, the more it will finally bring us satisfaction, but does it?

Step back and ask yourself, how do you feel when you over eat, drink, spend, burn the candle at both ends, over work, over exercise, too many social events/travel or over sleep, over procrastinate…we then only find our selves worn out, bloated, exhausted, sick, broke and still empty on the inside. It means to stop chasing the dopamine hit from whatever your choice is of over indulgence.

Brahmacharya translates to “walk with God”. While this does not necessarily mean we must be religious or believe in God, although it can…but it can also mean to honor all of life, honor every day, every moment as sacred and to honor yourself as you are, honor the ordinary times, days, experiences.

Self love is an inside job and does not come from the outside even if we continually try to force, jam this “good life” down our own throats.

Living your best life rarely exists in over indulgence but rather in gratitude and balance.

~Namaste Terri

06/17/2026

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06/15/2026

The 3rd Niyama-Asteya (non-stealing) means not taking what’s not yours and not just material, it’s also not taking another's thunder, respecting others' hearts, time, and energy as well as your own.

How much is enough? You can't have everything; where would you put it?

It's about not hoarding while others are in need and not taking more than your share. It’s about not letting material be self identifying with images of superiority and allowing arrogance to take over. Deeming yourself more worthy than another.

Do you talk over others, not listen to their joy or pain, and only wait your turn share your own story, experience and steal their moment? Or do we listen and lift others up?

Do you steal from your own future and your relationships with self sabotaging choices? Can you trust yourself to keep the promises you make to yourself?

Is your heart and mind cluttered with useless pain or begrudging experiences that no longer serve you? Do you choose the life before you today or do you obsess over the losses of yesterday? Stealing from the moment you are in and your tomorrow.

Do we chase one new experiences after another in a constant state of compulsive and impulsiveness behavior, thinking the more we do, see, experience, accomplish then the more worthy we are? Then maybe we will love ourselves more and others us? Rather than being able to sit with ourselves alone and still be able to be content and not steal from our ability to just love oneself without self worth coming from outward experiences, possessions, labels?

Practicing Asteya is shifting our focus to develop and work to build ourselves, by learning a skill, following our interests and passions and living our life where we make choices of what our best self would do. We are then giving the gift of our self to the universe and serving the world rather than stealing from it.

Asteya is when we shift our focus to being good stewards of what we do have and being comfortable without always being in a perpetual state of needing what others have, keeping up with the Jone’s, nor taking anything or anyone for granted or plainly just not taking what is not ours for taking.

~Namaste
Terri

06/09/2026

Self love is an inside job.

I’ve been practicing the Yamas and the Niyamas.

Satya translates as truth.
Sometimes truth is hard for nice people. Nice people can be people pleasers. This can be dangerous because they are not living their own truth but trying to distort so others can live theirs.

Being real can be very uncomfortable if the truth is hurtful to another or even to ourselves. However not living with truth can get very messy. Much more stressful to cover the lie(s), keep the peace or obligation which you never wanted to make.

Cleaning up the aftermath can cost you more time, energy and possibly embarrassment to then only come to the same result if choices were made with truth.
Living without Satya only causes resentments with others and yourself.

“Can you imagine speaking and acting so correctly that you never have to go back and apologize?”

Ahimsa and Satya go hand in hand. If you live in truth and a place where you want to cause no harm then you must be your true self and live freely and authentically. Only then you will trust yourself and so will others. Others will not have distorted versions. You will be free of the chains of untruths.

“Truth rarely seems to asks the easier choice of us.”

However Truth can be harsh and not all truths need to be vocalized if it is not helpful. It is also not our duty to clean up other’s messes either by forcing truths on them.

When you choose your words with the practice of Satya you can then find a warm place in your heart for yourself.

The acronym THINK:

T-is it true?
H- is it helpful?
I- is it inspiring?
N- is it nice?
K-is it kind?

“is my yes coming
from a dark corner
Or the light of my heart”
~C.L.

Satya is part of self love. Satya is not only communication but it is pure, authentic communication that comes from your heart. It’s being you without causing harm, it’s being honest with yourself and others and without apologizing for your truth.

~Namaste Terri