Sambhavi Yoga

Maha Shivarathri ✨🙏✨

The Shiva within me recognizes and honors the Shiva within you 🙏

May we dance and may we forgive 🙏

Om Namo Shivaya ✨🙏✨

Be the loving and compassionate witness of yourself

Don't believe every story you tell yourself.

Could you just love me like this? 🙏

❤️ Such a beautiful poem ❤️

my brain and
heart divorced

a decade ago

over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become

eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other

now my head and heart
share custody of me

I stay with my brain
during the week

and my heart
gets me on weekends

they never speak to one another
- instead, they give me
- the same note to pass
- to each other every week
and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:

"This is all your fault"

on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past

and on Wednesday
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future

they blame each
other for the
state of my life

there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying

so,

lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut
who serves as my
unofficial therapist

most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage

and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me

~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up

last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head

I nodded

I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore

"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented

my gut squeezed my hand

"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed

my gut smiled and said:

"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"

I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away
"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future

your lungs are the perfect place for you

there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either

there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment

there is only breath

and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."

this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves

and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs

I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs

before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said

"what took you so long?"

~ John Roedel

Enlightenment is very ordinary and it is nothing special

Emptying your burden basket

I received the following feedback on what yin yoga can do and thought that this should be shared!

"I'm a chaplain at a hospital. I am so grateful for the practice of yin yoga, especially the no-fuss accessibility of it and its positive psychospiritual effects. Many nights, in between emergencies and deaths, I have plunked down on the small patch of floor in the sleep room and sunken into poses, feeling the chaos of those moments release from my body, and leaving me better able to be present for the next patient or family in crisis. In chaplaincy, we sometimes talk about using our "burden baskets" to relieve others of some of their fears, anxieties, worries, regrets, etc. In order to be able to do that, to be available for another person's sharing of their hardest truths and darkest moments, one's own burden basket must be kept light. Yin yoga has become what lightens me."

❤️

WHEN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM REJOICES

The most beautiful quality of all in a human being, in my humble opinion?

The ability to listen deeply.

To listen from Presence. From stillness.

To listen without trying to fix someone, or change them, or ‘save’ them.

The ability to allow another to be exactly as they are.

Not giving unsolicited advice and premature answers. Not lecturing them about the latest psychological research or the ‘most true’ spiritual teaching. Not trying to mould them, manipulate them into matching a second-hand concept of who they ‘should’ be, or how they ‘should’ feel. Not projecting your own trauma – or traumatic answers and life advice - all over them.

Just listening. Listening with an open mind and an open heart and a receptive nervous system.
Allowing them to breathe, to express, to weep, to question, to doubt, to be completely unique, to expand into the space, to discover their own truth, to walk their own messy path, to make their own unique mistakes.

I have met world experts in intimacy and relationships who are unable to do this.
I have met spiritual gurus, so-called “enlightened masters”, expert psychologists and life coaches who are unable to do this.

I have met popular teachers and authors on ‘listening from the heart’, ‘holding space’, ‘pure awareness’ and ‘embodied spirituality’ who are utterly unable to do this.

It is a rare gift – the ability to allow others to be exactly as they are.
Broken. Whole. Sad. Angry. Afraid. Lost. Awake or asleep. Whatever.
To listen to them with every fibre of your being.
To receive them through the senses, to listen like the wild animals of the forest.
To swaddle them in undistracted, fascinated attention.
To envelop them in a silent, warm Presence.
To make them feel – in those precious moments that you are together – like they are the most beloved One in the whole Universe.

When you sense this kind of sacred listening from someone, it’s unmistakable.

It cannot be manufactured.
It cannot be faked.
It is utterly rare and holy.
It is nothing less than unconditional love.

Your nervous system senses it and rejoices.

- Jeff Foster

✨ I'm so happy to now be offering live online yin yoga classes. See below for the link to book your spot on Sunday or Wednesday at 4pm Thai time / 10am UK time✨

LIVE Yoga Class - with Sophie Levan

Sunday 17th January
4pm Thai - 9pm UK - 10am Europe - 8pm Aus
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Now, more than ever, our balancing and nourishing practices are so important. Sophie is now offering live guided online yin yoga classes on www.sanctuarywellness.live

Join us online to release the tension you hold in your body - quiet the noise of the mind - calm your nervous system - nourish your spirit.

First class is this Sunday - £7 / 285thb per class

To book your spot, click on this link: www.sanctuarywellness.live/product/live-yin-yoga-with-sophie-levan/

On payment you’ll receive a link and to access the class you’ll need a laptop with Google Chrome.

How can yin yoga help with difficult emotions?https://sanctuarywellness.live/how-can-yin-yoga-help-with-difficult-emotions/?fbclid=IwAR1b7VuI1_gwHQgiDS_d6M3YJwTLc8JSc-i4Fk9fm4urlPFvFFAGt_De42w

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Real self-care

Protect your energy ✨🙏✨

‘Nuff said.

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Seal pose for when you're feeling low energy. On days when a bit of 'get up and go' is hard to come by and your inner yogi is saying 'Nah -mastay in bed', Seal pose (or its slightly more sedate sister, Sphinx pose) can help because it works with the kidneys. In Traditional Chinese Medicine the kidneys are the seat of our Jing energy which could be described as our internal battery, our mojo, our willpower. As we compress the kidneys in these backbending poses, stagnant chi is squeezed out, making room for a rush of fresh chi to the kidneys (when we come out of the pose), allowing our Jing to thrive.

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It's Not Life That Most Humans Suffer, But Their Own Memory and Imagination Sadhguru says, "A truly intelligent mind is neither influenced by memory nor deluded by imagination."

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