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Writing Retreat Bali 2019

The Mat Movement Bali yoga retreat May 2018; vegetarian and vegan food

The Mat Movement Bali yoga retreat May 2018; vegetarian and vegan food prepared with love. Food from our travels in Asia and Australia.

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We are slowed down lightwaves. A walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music - Albert Einstein. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Tomorrow we attune. We dance, move, meditate, contemplate, embody and study the ancient teachings of Non-Dual Kashmir Shaivism. Meet and be met by Pratibha, your embodied intuition, creative inspiration and innate instinct. Explore the Five Layered Self and experience the art of yielding into relationship with ‘what is’. This will be a four hour immersive journey into the felt experience of trust and flow @radiantlyaliveyoga Saturday 12.45-16.45 🙏💗🦋🌺✨ #ubudyoga #yogainspiration #flowstate #trusttheprocess #trust #intuition #yoga #yogateacher #yogaimmersion #yogajourney #yogaeverywhere #yogabali #bali #ubud

✨🦋🤸‍♀️Embodied liberation🌺🤸‍♀️🌈What does that look like for you? Dancing in my morning pants is where I’m at these days. Isn’t that what mornings were made for? And why not? I ask myself, what is at the root of the patterns I glue myself to? Where am i bound? How can I dissolve old ideas that only serve to dam the rush of my creative impulse? What stories are encoded in my body and how can I repattern my cells to free up new ways of moving and being? Dancing in my pants is a portal to freedom🤸‍♀️It takes me into a flow state where energy moves through me and the stickiness gets less stuck✨✨ It shakes up the shadowy parts and switches more of me on. It is a meditation, a surrender, a streaming of moment-to-moment presence where all of me is all-in. And it’s what I love to teach. Going deep into the cells this week @radiantlyaliveyoga where we’ll be swimming inside the fluid body: 🦋11am Wednesday FLOW 🦋6pm Thursday YIN 🦋7.30am Friday FREE meditation 🦋11am Saturday FLOW 🦋8am Sunday STRONG 🦋4pm Sunday RA VINYASA 🦋Saturday June 29th WORKSHOP 🦋 #embodiedflow #embodiment #freedom #expression #flowstate #yoga #yogateacher #yogainspiration #yogaembodied #liberation #inquirybased #contemplation #presence #baliyoga #ubudyoga #ubud #bali #yogaeverywhere #dance #ubuddance

I want my whole life to be a moving meditation, she said. And my heart nodded in agreement, widening out to hold more and more beauty in an unequivocal yes to each moment and whatever it might contain. It’s hard to explain, sometimes, why I want to soft step into the sacred dimension of being, and carry that into my conversations, words, thoughts, actions. People don’t always get it. They look at me strange and deny us both the mystery. But how is it anything other than that? How could it ever be anything other than mysterious and how is that not profound and poetic? This deep love for the life-force that breathes me and bursts into a billion galaxies of intelligent cells that are always listening, responding, processing, becoming. It is reverent and sacred because it is humbling and awesome. And to be in a moving meditation is to be in a state of recognition, where each gesture is an offering. To feel into each frequency and tenderly touch the nebulous and the numinous that stirs inside and quietly calls us closer. To be felt and recognized, seen and heard, welcomed and experienced. We all want these things so why wouldn’t our sadness also want to be received and held. Our tender hearts have a voice and our nervous systems work so tirelessly to reach out into the world and bring back messages that will help navigate the next deed. What would it be like to step into the sacred dimension of life? Perhaps it might change your world but you will never know unless you open the door and see for yourself. It is always already there. In all its nowness. All its aliveness. All it’s perfect patterns and infinite expressions. You are the mystery and the magic. A perfect pattern of the whole. When we yield into that, we meet ourselves there ✨🙏🦋 Stepping into the sacred @radiantlyaliveyoga tomorrow at 7.30am and 6pm 💗 Words inspired by fellow @samavesayoga spiritweaver @rikkebrodin 📸@iamelizabethcurtis ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ #sacred #yoga #yogainspiration #yogaeverywhere #nonduality #tantrika #yogateacher #ubudyoga #samavesayoga #radiantlyalive #bali #ubud #meditation #awakening #embodiment #embodiedflow

Things don’t happen for a reason Sweet child. No, Life doesn’t need a reason For happening. It simply blooms forth With breathtaking chaos Rains down on you With senseless beauty And immeasurable heartache. You can make up stories, If you like, About why things happen The way that they happened. You can close one eye and squint To make up patterns. You can tell stories of Tragedy Or perfection Curses Or blessings. Or you can simply stand naked in The rain. You can realize nothing Will ever really make sense Not if you’re really honest Not if you’re truly listening. Nothing happens for a reason. Yes, this is the truth. This is it. There is nothing else But your own heart Plunging Into reality. Your own heart Drinking down The eruption of stars That is this radical emergence Of soul in body Of breath meeting Sky. Maybe There is nothing else to look for Maybe it didn’t work out for the best Maybe it isn’t an unfortunate mess Maybe no great spirit is helping Anything go your way. Maybe Just maybe Life unfolds Relentlessly With no holy plan. Maybe It is sacred, Just as it is. It’s power and innocence Requires no justification. It’s perfection requires no meaning. Maybe nothing Means anything Other than what the Rose Means When it blooms. It means Here I am Here I am Here I am Here I am ~Maya Luna Every part of me rises up to meet these words. They speak so much to my open heart. Thank you @emmaartyoga for sharing. We’ll be embodying this wisdom @radiantlyaliveyoga today at 11am and tomorrow at 11am 💗🙏💗 #realityasitis #stripped #story #truth #presence #awakening #yoga #meditation #samavesayoga #yogatraining #yogabali #bali #offering #ubudyoga #radiantlyalive #ubud #tirtaempul #yogateacher #yogastudent #yogainspiration #magickingdom #yogaeverywhere

One more word would have been too much. I could feel the surge of something calling me to the door. Right and wrong were clanging against my skull and I knew where to find space. I lay down silently for two hours, my whole body listening to the jungle. Attuning to clarity and earth. The turning of my mind quietened as the energy came to rest in the knowing of my gut and the tender of my heart. Such peace in presence, I slept inside the cool arms of the late morning air and came home to myself 🙏Thank you to all the guides who showed me how to tune in, find space, deeply rest and honour my process 🙏💗✨ I found this magical tree after running in the north of the Bali. Another way I sometimes find freedom. Let me know your ways back home so I can learn your spells ✨✨✨✨ #space #attunement #pratibha #wisdom #innerteacher #yoga #baliyoga #ubud #ubudyoga #radiantlyalive #yogastudent #yogateacher #yogainspiration #yogateachertraining #yogaeverywhere

Inside the space, potential is sleeping. Between existence and non-existence. Between there and there, this-that, how you are and how you want to be. All this longing to know, the unsettling of the unknown, can we pause between the two? Suspended in possibility, there is so much more of the moment here. How can we know what is waiting, what wants to be realized, without sitting within? What waits there is what wants to be known, And already knows what it wants. ✨💗✨💗✨💗 Moving inside the Madhya this week @radiantlyaliveyoga ✨💗✨💗✨💗 Come and meet me in the space between here and there. Today at 11am and 4pm, Friday 7.30 and 11am, Saturday at 11am and Sunday at 8am 💗🙏✨ #sacredspace #presence #meditation #yoga #yogateacher #yogainspiration #radiantlyalive #ubudyoga #baliyoga #yogaeverywhere #movingmeditation #meditation 📸@iamelizabethcurtis

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