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Yoga Scrapbook

Musings and stumblings, found inside hidden pockets of inspiration. This scrapbook is a gathering of words, moments and expressions that have captured our imagination, made us think or stirred our souls. It’s a resource for you to share with your students and community, family and friends. Or just a secret place you can visit when you want to water your eyes and give them new ways of seeing. If you would like to share any stumblings that have moved you then send them in and we’ll post them for all to drink in.

Photo credit: Sylke Ibach

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Mount Agung. You can see her, on the horizon. She was draped in layers of cloud and haze, in a luminous Dali sky where multiple vortices seemed equally drawn in by her power. I was so tired, I sat and rested before sky show and watched the sun set over the sacred Bali volcano. Pete joined later and we made plans under the stars. So much beauty. Words are never enough 🙏✨❤️ #valentinesday2018 #love #gratitude #thislife #mystery #earth #gililife #giliair #islandlife #stars #sunsets #flowersandfire
Oh Bali. Just look at you. Almost too much beauty to bare 🌺🌴✨ We have much to look forward to this year with @samavesayoga happening at the end of March and @writing_retreat_bali in October, just ahead of @ubudwritersfest 💥 Pete @lovescreenwriting has put together an incredibly talented line-up of writers for the retreat including @clarefisherwriter @johannaelomaa @andycravengriffiths @the_nathanreal and our offline, offbeat, AFI nominated @aftrs screenwriter, Stephen Davis all held at the beautiful @baliswasti 🌴 Early bird ends on Feb 23rd and we have four spaces left for Samāveśa with myself, @hareeshwallis @margheritadalprayoga @theanatomyschool and @healtoshine all happening @theshalabali 🌴 we’d love to meet you here in paradise 🐳❤️🙏 📸@hideoutbali #writingretreat #yogaretreat #yoga #bali #meditation #writersofinstagram #writing #poetry #novelwriting #screenwriting #paradise #yogainspiration #tantrayoga #meditation #immersion
How do you find your way back in? How do you come back to yourself when the veils have fallen and clear sight feels far away? Inspired by a dear friend and an achy morning that wrote this poem, a blog also found its way through. It’s been a while. ✨Link in profile✨ . . . Still, sometimes, there are mornings where that old distant shadow hangs a loose lace, old and fragile, yellowed and stained, like my mothers nicotine walls. It suffocates my deeper knowing, rivering freely below. A heavy widow’s cloak blocks out the light and that part of me that always knows this new day is already complete. But I am sleeping And the edges of not enough are sharp and ragged. Lodged in old grooves, achy wheels get stuck, carrying this ghost of uncertainty so she can sit lightly on my chest, almost imperceptible, her heavy layers tremble with short breaths until I let her pass through. 📸@iamelizabethcurtis . . #meditation #presence #lost #found #flow #yoga #blog #poetry #mindfulness
If I could slow down, I would see more of you. Have more time to muse at your intimate details. Spread the minutes out over days to sink into all your shades and ripples. The inner trembles and trickles. A quick and sudden surge of joy. I’d notice more of those precious movements. The light dances on the water and I can’t pull myself away so I sit inside the silent and still, watching her endless, rivering flow #mesmerising #flow #slowdown #seemore #feelmore #meditation #mindfulness #yoga
I suppose it’ll do. The lookout from our last island hideaway in Koh Phangan. It was a ramshackle concrete shell with a low slung hammock and shutters that opened wide to that view. The ocean right by our side, as we slept. And the sky. Oh the sky. There was something criminal about missing a sunrise. Rolling out of bed and falling into the bottomless stillness of that perfect, fleeting transition. That sweet lull where the sacred dimension of life is in clear sight. You and that wild, molten star, born of the same exquisite atomic intelligence. Born of the same cosmic event. Born of light and fire, reflecting life back to itself in pockets of precious remembrance #dawn #transitions #sunrise #kohphangan #islandlife #yogainspiration #yoga #reflections
6 writers. 6 days. Bali. October 2019 🤓🌴🌺🦋🐛 Calling all poets, screenwriters, authors, journos and copywriters. 🤓 A seriously playful writing retreat hosted by our very own @lovescreenwriting and @writing_retreat_bali 🤓 I’ll teach you how to earn and travel as a copywriter. Learn how to build a portfolio, take a brief, manage clients and win work. 🤓 Hone your craft with Glasto Poetry Slam winner and BBC new voice @andycravengriffiths 🤓 Learn the finer points of journalism with freelance writer for the New York Times and The Guardian with @the_nathanreal 🤓 Study the craft of voice with award winning novelist and author of #allthegoodthings @clarefisherwriter 🤓 Dig for meaning with acclaimed Finnish author @johannaelomaa 🤓 Plot the course of a hero with AFI nominated screenwriter and all round legend Stephen Davis 🤓 Come play! There’ll be yoga, meditation, workshops, writing time, free time and good times. 🤩 All at the beautiful eco village of @baliswasti where you can eat, rest, swim, sunbathe, study and grow 🌴🌺🐛🦋🤩💦 #writing #writersofinstagram #writingretreat #writingretreatbali #bali #islandwriters #poetry #journalism #copywriting #authorsofinstagram #screenwriter #inspiration #writerscommunity #writer #writers #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

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