Lantern Shala
Accessible explorations of the eight limbs of yoga. Practices to support illnesses and disabilities. Classes and tips for supporting the mind body connection.
Providing an accessible exploration of The Eight Limbs of Yoga. Adaptive practices for supporting illness and disabilities. Me in bullet points
~ I have completed 200hr YTT Hatha Yoga
~ I have suffered with chronic illness and disability. Yoga has given me tools to manage my illness and reduce inflammation in my body.
~ I have had many struggles with my mental health through out my life, as wel
If anyone would like some tomato plants I have lots spare send me a message.
Dragons Blood is resin taken from the Dracaena Tree.
Burned as an incense it is said to protect against negative energies, aid inner healing and form spiritual connection.
Dragons blood is anti inflammation, helps with digestive issues, anti microbial and when applied topically it can help ulcers and bed sores…..It can also be used as an insect repellent.
A multifaceted treasure!!! 💜💜💜
This evening Lantern Shala hosted The Noise Makers. What a magical time it was connecting and releasing through sound! ❤️
Blue skies today.
This is my first pick of Lantern Shala’s book of the week - ‘Invisible Acts of Power’ By Caroline Myss.
This week I’ve not been that well, so it has meant I’ve manage to really get into this book.
If you are looking for a book about generosity, its energetic power and how it links to our chakras give this one a read. I have read/listened to a few books by Caroline Myss and she’s great! Also if you listen to her on audible she’s has a very gentle, soothing voice. She has also done an audible with Clarissa Pinkola Estes called ‘Intuition and the Mystical life’, which is also worth a listen
Thoughts I’m left with from this book:
To what level do I show true generosity, unconditional, fourth chakra generosity?
How much does my pride prevent me from heart chakra giving?
When speaking up at what point is it your “opinion or discernment”?……I find that one hard.
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Free taster yoga class at lantern shala!
Come visit lantern Shala. lessons
As I am new yoga teacher am offering a free taster session to all. If you are looking for regular sessions, a donation based on what you can afford would be appreciated.
The scent corner in
My grounding space. 💜
The beginning of Lantern Shala.
Those who suffer with OCD will know that compulsion to control the future. Recently i’ve focused on and believe it or not, enjoyed surrendering to what is. To release this need for certainty and remove the fear. To trust that the universe will provide you with experiences you need to have so you can learn and grow. Visualising the release of the weight you may be carrying, with the breath, is a great way to feel free.
For me it is about deep rest in that release. I am finding my time of solitude deeply healing this winter month. What’s December bringing to you?
Your achilles heal was healing
Nearly skin complete
But the tissue that is left
Is there for my defeat
Fight or flight. (All three for sale)
It’s been a triggering time over last little while, not just for me but for lots of people. It can be very challenging to remain in your body and in your surrounding if you are dealing with unprocessed trauma. I’ve reminded my self the last few days what daily practices aid me in keeping my self grounded, present and peaceful. I will be releasing some practices that have helped me online soon. These practices are to be used as an aid and I myself find they help to give me moments of peace alongside my therapy.
Barely scratched the surface
For Sale. Accepting offers. It’s quite a big piece.
To day would have been my mums birthday and each year grief takes a new form.
If you believe there’s choice in death and departure soul by soul, was there a transaction
to make my body whole?
I’m sure we are all feeling the magnitude of everything at the moment. I am repeating a constant mantra to myself at the moment to ‘choose love not fear!’
As far as I’m concerned love is a choice
I mean creational, healthy love, pure love of existence and being
It may be hard to access at times,
So look to your memories of love to bring it to the present
How did it feel in the body?
Once you find it, notice how all else clears, how peace streams along your fingers reaching out beyond you
How light takes settlement through you
How the fog of the mind clears and peace appears
Love is a choice
Choose it as you wish
Guided through a meditation practice in the sun. I find the energy of calm is contagious , as I inhabit calm so does the student, as the student relaxes so do I.
Me and / .conservation
We went to the beach yesterday and had a picnic followed by a small Yoga practice teach. What a perfect setting with the meditative sound of the waves.
The sun gives me a good reboot!
The breath cleanses me
Everything becomes still
She’s sturdy, reliable, strong and simple. She’s an anchor.
To day I did a ceremony to release what has been troubling me. I may have to do it every morning, but it has helped today. I have been bring conscious writing into my daily routine, this is what I wrote for this ceremony.
That was a weak moment
A moment of fear
Not a motive just pure emotion
No understanding how to navigate
I was honest to that moment
I told my mind
It was not received
I give love now
Surround those moments in compassion
Wrap all in a blanket of kindness
Accept no control
I release these patterns
Formed paths
Free
Mutterings from conscious writing.
I want to come back
Resurface
Understand again
When will this muddled fog clear
I wish calm love could return
My heart closes
I wish my lips would let me smile
It hurts my chest to try
Talking, all I can do Is bark
Bark my need in that moment
Rude unkind bark
But help me survive this
Give me relief
How do I describe this feeling in my chest
I need to get it out
Urge
Urge
Free me
Free for a second then it returns stronger
harder
faster
Please god
Please god
Are they teaching me
What am I suppose to learn
How do I gain control
Can I gain control
Is this something happening
I lose track
Where did it go all that I had known
What do I say
What do I do
Do I place my hand there
Do my eyes look insincere
To much thought
Potential of disaster
I could blow
Medicate me, sedate me
Free me from noise
Sound,
a light,
flash,
banging my body
Sensing everything
Energy
Emotion
Action
I can hear you
Is that true
Am I hearing this
You got it wrong
I mean no harm
Fix it
I must fix it
Yet the worse it gets
“I will not be lead by fear” so often in the past I have given into fear and hid from what should have been done. This face represents the pain of that, the internal feeling of needing to scream. This piece has been a therapeutic release and represents new patterns of being.
There’s nothing more satisfying than having muddy feet. I love the way the mud squelches between your toes. How your roots burrow into the ground and finally connect. You stop and breath into that moment where at last you are wild.
It’s been such a nurturing day of connecting to the out doors. I went kayaking today and I got be on the water. This is a Valentine’s Day I am keen on, where it’s about soulful play with the self. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. Sending you all loads of love.
Gentle Acceptance is my Sankalpa for today. It’s one of those days today where I had a lot of hope of being productive and catching up on my studying. However I haven’t regained my energy properly yet after a flair of illness and I have this headache niggling away. So after some stretching, me and savvy have decided to be gentle with ourselves. Time to sit in bed doing a gentle meditation. The power meditation has over dogs is quite amazing, they absorb your relaxing energy and become total yogis!
Starting to collect antique and vintage stock that will be available on my website soon. What do you think of these two pieces yay or nay?
Discovering jewellery making
I enjoy experimenting with different materials and artistic processes. I am currently enjoy working with metal and creating jewellery.