Leilani Yoga

My advice to my kids in most situations — Take a deep breath, calm down, and remember who you are. Works like magic 🙌🏼✨

Meditation is not escapism, it is realism. It is not zoning out, it is tuning in. Meditation involves unwavering, uncompromising truth and acceptance. This awareness and self knowledge leads us down the road of less suffering, the road to peace of mind. ❤ om om

I'm preparing my first inspirational mass email to go out this week. A lot of you have already given me your email addresses (mahalo!), but if you haven't and would like to be on my email list (no more than once a week AND there will be a quick unsubscribe option), please add your email address here in comments or send me a pm. Thanks for your love and support!

Yoga for Healing: Why Western Doctors Are Now Prescribing Yoga Therapy With a growing body of research proving yoga’s healing benefits, it’s no wonder more Western doctors are prescribing this ancient practice to their...

Heaven help us all. 💗

Stevie Wonder - Heaven, Help us all Collage of pictures from various different conflicts, wars, movements throughout different periods of recent history. The song can be interpreted in many dif...

Free from selfish attachment, they do not get compulsively entangled even in home and family. They are even minded through good fortune and bad. Enjoying solitude and not following the crowd, they seek only me. ~The Bhagavad Gita

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"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”

—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Simply sit in meditation with your eyes closed, and smile; with your face, your mind, your heart, and then your entire being.😊 Let joy and sweet peace envelope you. Let gratitude be your focus. 💗

"...if you had a good teacher, and you really tried with all your heart, then you could...go to heaven...it could happen to you, to anybody at all... You could meet angels, beautiful holy creatures, and you could learn from them, learn to stay with them, you would even yourself change, change one day...and be like them, made of pure light, passing through every realm of living things, man and beast, constantly helping them, constantly nurturing them like your own children, and then, one day make them like you - angelic indestructible light, perfect love, spreading to every living creature in need, and curing them. (This is) a vision of what the word 'yoga' really means - a union with things divine." ~from one of my favorite books, How Yoga Works 💗

Welcome your life completely. Greet it as a long-lost friend or, even better, as your best friend. Even if that seems strange to you or a situation appears as something against you, embrace and love it all.
~John Morton, DSS

Beautiful flow expanding the edges of the practice...

THE ORIGINAL YOGA DANCE. YOGANCE CREATOR @cuchira on INSTAGRAM. This is a Yogance flow (YOFLO) I recorded about a year ago. For some reason I forgot to post it and found it again randomly on my computer. It's empowering t...

"Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. "
~♥~Rumi

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.

-Ernest Dowson

"After many births the wise seek refuge in me, seeing me everywhere and in everything. Such great souls are very rare." - Sri Krishna

Bahahaha! The cats are doing their earthquake drill!

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“Such as are your habitual thoughts; such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”
~Marcus Aurelius

Sit there until you outlast whatever it is that's pushing you around inside when you do spiritual exercises, because it not only pushes you around with spiritual exercises, but it pushes you around with every other relationship, too.
~John-Roger, DSS

I love this meditation technique. Try it for a few minutes this morning and notice how you feel. 💗

As you meditate, focus on your breath. As you inhale, feel the divine you expand to experience your physical body. As you exhale, surrender the physical body, thoughts, past and future, and settle in to your egoless soul.

Being true to ourselves, living our lives fully, bravely exposing our authentic selves - THIS is how we say thank you for this journey. 💗🙏📿

All of the pain and pleasure that we experience stems fundamentally from the mind. So when we say we want peace on earth, what we are really talking about is reducing the conflict in our own mind. ~Sakyong Mipham

First, meditation.