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I heard these words a while back from a @jayshetty

I heard these words a while back from a @jayshetty podcast & they really stood out - so I wrote them down.

The more time has passed the more I have come to understand the astounding truth of these words.

I watched @nick.mcn for years, looking to shift himself out of unhelpful patterns & struggling to get anything to stick. Then he went on a mens retreat & met lots of men, but two especially who really inspired him to create profound change in his life. They didn't do the work, he did but I think the biggest gift they gave him was each modelling different aspects of the man he wanted to be in a way that resonated with him.

Just the other day, I was listening to yet another friend recount her powerful birth story & it occurred to me the contrast of experiences I am receiving this pregnancy, as opposed to last. Nearly every single birth story I heard the first time, was negative, joking about taking all the drugs or full blown trauma recount. I had very few people in my life modelling what I wanted my experience to be...

On reflection i realised, this time, every single birth story I have heard has been powerful, potent & positive. I am surrounded by people modelling the type of birthing woman I want to be. Even though we planned a home birth with Cedar, I could never imagine it, or visualise it (and believe me I tried).

A few months back I received the most precious gift of a dream - the vivid experience of lifting my baby up from between my legs in the birthing pool. That image has stayed with me ever since - it only grows in clarity & emotion with every passing day.

What a gift, to be able to see what I wish to be.

In reality it's one of the gifts of this platform (with all its faults). Even if our immediate circle doesn't provide us with the inspiration for what we wish to embody in our lives (birth or otherwise) we can carefully curate our online circle to fulfil that purpose & hopefully through nurturing those relationships we get to invite that energy into our real world circles - which I have totally been blessed to be able to do!

So grateful for the women in my life (in the real world & the online sphere) holding the torch of inspiration!

I'm officially an Anusara-inspired™ yoga teacher

I'm officially an Anusara-inspired™ yoga teacher!!! ⁠
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I have been studying this style of yoga since before I even became a yoga teacher but didn't finish my official training until 2018. ⁠
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I can't believe it took me so long to take those last final steps to tie off the paperwork. With the support of this wonderful woman, Cass of @earthandsky_yoga I finally submitted my final teaching assessment and got myself licensed. ⁠
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It's been a bit of a delicate juggle to balance the timing of getting this certification tied off in time for a workshop that needed to be run before I was too heavily pregnant to deliver it, but I made it (hence why I haven't shared too much about the workshop). ⁠
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This has been an 11 year journey... It was starting my Anusara immersions and the teachings of non-dual Saiva Tantra after coming out of some BIG and traumatic life stuff that first gave me enough of a heart opening experience to know that I had to make these teachings an every day part of my life. ⁠
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I'm actually surprised at how nerdily excited and happy I am at receiving this certification and yet.... Thinking back to that first immersion all those years ago, I remember the feeling of walking down the road to China Town in Sydney for my lunch break with the most expanded feelings of joy and freedom in my heart - things that I had not ever previously felt (without the help of drugs).⁠
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Anusara yoga is about saying yes to the whole spectrum of life. To be aware of and accept the world and ourselves as we are without clinging to anything or pushing anything away. It honours and acknowledges the light and the dark, all perceptions, thoughts and emotions. To be in the flow and respond to whatever arises with freshness and freedom. ⁠
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So as we translate the opening invocation:⁠
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I open my heart to the power of Grace⁠
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That lives in us as goodness⁠
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That never is absent and radiates peace⁠
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And lights the way to transformation⁠
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Om Namah Shivaya!!!⁠
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ON REST.... (and cancelling the 21 Day Online Rive

ON REST.... (and cancelling the 21 Day Online River Reset)⁠
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Rest is not something I have ever been very good at, I struggle to nap. ⁠
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Burn out has been a frequent visitor throughout my years in business and although I believe there were many factors that contributed to my post-partum depression the first time around, I think not allowing myself enough time to savour that time and rest profoundly was a BIG contributor. ⁠
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Part of the teachings I wanted to share with you in that online program was the art of practicing the values you wish to embody. It is so easy to declare we have certain values but unless we are consciously practicing their embodiment it is only a value we WISH to have, though one that is not yet truly ours. ⁠
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As passionate as I was about this ever evolving offering that @naominonucarling and I had dreamed up, I could sense the aversion to the growing list of things I needed to do in order to do the offering justice.

I could also feel myself not aligning with the timeframe of just 21 days. ⁠
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On top of that - if I had gone ahead, I would not have been able to deliver the teachings of the program authentically - so what would be the point?!?!? ⁠
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Old me, would have charged ahead & done it. How could I change my mind when I publicly announced I was running this? ⁠
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But in follow up to my post last week, I instead chose to feel into all possibilities, access my wisdom and feel safe in the knowing that it's ok to change your mind. I'm practicing rest and the energy which I wish to infuse into this birth and post-partum period (which is fast approaching). ⁠
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I'm getting so good at it, I also had the night off teaching and let @ali.kimbrough take the reigns... ⁠
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I thought about all the pics I could take of myself to portray this new value I am embodying... but it felt like a lot of work to create it. So instead i'm using this beautiful photo I captured of @leasha_therese yesterday at her personal branding shoot - and for me, I choose REST.⁠
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This feels way more aligned with the vision for the River Reset, it feels way more aligned with the values I wish to embody and it feels way more aligned with the passage of birth.
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