Chikara Yoga

仕方が無い

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From: Plantpur 🥰

Yup! A great reminder for the weekend... and for every other day too!

日本の観念の十つ🇯🇵

生き甲斐
金継ぎ
侘び寂び
物の哀れ🌸
改善🔄
心❤️
絆👭
頑張る💪🏼
仕様無い
勿体無い

宜しく| you are welcome 🙇‍♀️
愛仁多

My kanji name was given to me by my beautiful Japanese home stay mum - it means ‘lots of love & compassion | benevolence ‘ 💗

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“If it doesn’t open, it’s not your door”

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Dropping some truth serum today! 🔥🔥🔥

Self care, nourishment and me time this week in beautiful Bali on retreat to rest and recharge my spirit 💖 (while my dog is being looked after back home)

I share quotes daily on my Instagram 👉 https://bit.ly/3mJmK5B

💛 credit: Mindful Enough

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Drool by Dr Chris Brown on Instagram: "So beautiful. And why your dog has those ‘special’ reactions to their friends in the park 😭 ❤️"

If you are like me and avoid camel pose in class at all costs, give it a go against the wall using a rolled up towel and straps to support upper back and neck 💕

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There's really no correlation between your capacity to do challenging ("advanced") poses and how your body feels.
There are plenty of people who can do hard asanas - but many of them are also in pain. And there are plenty of people who can't do difficult poses but are not in pain.
After years of dysfunctional practice, many people quit because of pain and decide that yoga is not for them.
Then they have to spend years rehabbing from the damage.
Difficult poses are more like performance art, if you can do them without any pain, good for you - but it's actually rare.
While poses like this one are used to suggest that the practitioner is advanced, in good shape, has a strong mind, and feels great, that's not always the case.
There's a dark side.
There are strong correlations between hypermobile joints and pain.
So many practitioners have hurt themselves from continuing to practice despite the body's strong messages of pain.
This may be because westerners have bought into the idea that hard poses are the goal. But this is inaccurate.
Yoga is not an external practice where the form is the goal. and the harder the form the better.
Yoga is a highly internal practice.
Being able to do hard asanas does not mean you are an advanced practitioner...but knowing when you shouldn't do them, and being able to find asanas that make your body feel stable, strong, and healthy, that help you balance your mind, and that help you develop resilience in your nervous system - those are the signs of a truly advanced practice.

I have started happening, and my gosh it is amazing.