Yoga With Khyra

✨ Happy New Year friends and yogis ✨
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As this decade comes to a close, I think about where I was ten years ago. I was a sophomore in high school, unbelievably lost and experiencing a deep depression. It was at this time that I was first introduced to yoga, meditation and Buddhism. This period was the catalyst for everything to come, from my travels to meeting my partner to moving abroad to getting my degree to my yoga teacher training. It’s almost dizzying to think of everything that has happened and everything I’ve learned over the past ten years. Taking it all in I realize that it’s been an intense ten years of discovery and self-discovery. This past year in particular brought me personal growth, freedom and moments of joy. It brought me back to Paris and back into the transformative fire of “tapas”.
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As we move into this new year and new decade, I invite you to take a moment to reflect on where you were ten years ago. Reflect on what you have accomplished and what you have learned in this time. As you turn inward, I invite you to hold the whole of yourself and your experiences with compassion. In doing so, we invite gratitude, kindness and perspective into the new year and the new decade 🙏
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I wish you all and rich and meaningful year to come 💕

Only one public class offering this week 🙏🕉
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🧘🏻‍♀️Tues July 23rd at 8:30 am — All Levels Vinyasa Flow (75 min)

“All Levels Vinyasa Flow is a practice that links breath with movement; yogis of all shapes and sizes, all ages and abilities are welcome to join in the practice and flow and move together.” For more information check out the Life.Love.Yoga. page or website. Studio prices (drop in or class card), all levels welcome, no reservation necessary ❤️

Looking forward to seeing you there my friends ❤️

Living out my childhood dream of being Ariel from The Little Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Over the past couple of months conversation around boundary setting has come up again and again with friends and family. Setting boundaries is hard, there’s no doubt about it. When we set boundaries we open ourselves up to the possibility of judgement, rejection and confrontation. But it means that we have a sense of self-worth, know our value and trust ourselves to make the right decision in a given situation. Boundary setting is necessary, deeply important and empowering 💪🏼

Come practice with me in Sisters at Life.Love.Yoga. 🙏
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🧘🏻‍♀️Thurs June 27th at 8:30 am — Vinyasa Flow (60 min)
🧘🏻‍♀️Fri June 28th at 8:30 am — Vinyasa Flow (60 min)

Studio page or website for more information (class descriptions, price, location). No reservation necessary. See you on the mat yogis 🥰

Keep cool this summer 🌬 Read the below article on a cooling pranayama/breath work technique called Sheetali. Article in French (pour mes amis francophones) with a video in English at the bottom (for my English-speaking friends). Practicing Sheetali regulates body temperature, balances, and calms the mind and body. Happy summer 🌞

https://yogassimo.com/blog/sh*tali-pranayama-respiration-rafraichissante/

Sh*tali pranayama, la respiration rafraichissante contre la canicule-Yogassimo Le yoga propose des techniques pour se rafraîchir :Découvrez Sh*tali et Sh*tkari 2 exercices de pranayama au pouvoir magique sur le corps et l'esprit

🌞 Happy Summer Solstice and International Day of Yoga 🌞
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Summer is upon us, and with it comes warmer temperatures, longer days, increased activity, both physical and social, and a jam-packed calendar. This energy can be equally empowering and expansive or overwhelming and draining. The long-held postures of a restorative practice can balance the intense fiery-solar-summer energy and welcome some much needed grounding, calming and cooling. In this week’s classes we’re harnessing the solar energy with a strong practice, followed by a deeply restful restorative practice. Happy summer everyone!

🌞 To honor and celebrate both the Summer Solstice and International Day of Yoga this Friday, June 21st, join me on the mat for three special classes 🌞
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🧘🏻‍♀️ Fri June 21st at 8:30 am — Vinyasa Flow (60 min)
🧘🏻‍♀️ Fri June 21st at 10 am — Mindful Yoga (90 min)
🧘🏻‍♀️ Fri June 21st at 12 pm — Restorative/Yin Yoga (60 min)
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Check out the studio page Life.Love.Yoga. or their website for more information, including class descriptions, price and location.
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No reservation necessary. Looking forward to practicing and celebrating together 🤸‍♀️

‼️Please note the date and time of the event have been changed to the following‼️
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Join me Sunday July 14th at 7pm for a Mindful Yoga and Wine Tasting Workshop 😊🤸🏻‍♂️ We will begin our workshop with an hour of mindful yoga, cultivating present moment awareness and calming the mind. This will be followed by a mindful tasting of a flight of wines specifically chosen for the workshop and provided by Va Piano Vineyards. The basic concepts of mindfulness will be explained and explored during both practices.

For more information and reservations send me an email at [email protected] or go to the event page here https://www.facebook.com/events/685782141854379/. Small class size, spots limited! I’m so incredibly excited about this workshop, see you there yogis!!

No public classes this week, only privates!

If you would like to work one-on-one or in small groups contact me for more information!

Do you struggle to let go of work and your never ending to-do list? 💻⏰📑
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The more people I talk to about work and rest, the more I realize how common it is to struggle with leaving work at the door, disconnecting and choosing rest in our “twenty-four/seven, always-on world,” as Alex Soojung-Kim Pang puts it.
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With overwhelming anxiety these last couple of weeks, I am learning more about how to set boundaries between work and rest, and about the benefits of deep, active rest. Learning how to rest deliberately is a skill to cultivate. A skill just like any other that takes practice, practice and more practice.
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📖 Soojung-Kim Pang’s thought provoking book Rest will have you reflecting on your work and rest habits. Do you struggle to find balance between the two? How do you rest? Share below!

Let’s get on the mat and move 🤸🏻‍♂️

🧘🏻‍♀️ Fri May 17th at 8:30 am — Vinyasa Flow (60 min)

Check out the Life.Love.Yoga. page or website for more information — class descriptions, price, location and more www.lifeloveyoga.com/home.html

No reservation necessary. Looking forward to practicing together 🤸🏻‍♂️

Home we have been home to an eco-friendly yoga studio offering yoga classes in a variety of styles to all levels and abilities 7 days per week.

Join me Sunday June 2nd at 6pm for a Mindful Yoga and Wine Tasting Workshop 😊🤸🏻‍♂️ We will begin our workshop with an hour of mindful yoga practiced outdoors, cultivating present moment awareness and calming the mind. This will be followed by a mindful tasting of a flight of wines specifically chosen for the workshop and provided by Va Piano Vineyards. The basic concepts of mindfulness will be explained and explored during both practices.

For more information and reservations send me an email at [email protected] or go to the event page here https://www.facebook.com/events/685782141854379/. Small class size, spots limited! I’m so incredibly excited about this workshop, see you there yogis!!

There will be times you will need to rest — so rest. Practice surrender and acceptance when you push yourself too hard. Your mat will hold and support you. There will be times you will need to let everything go — so sweat it out, pour your energy into your mat, purge yourself of all the frustration, anxiety and agitation. Your mat will match that energy.
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Your mat can take a lot, and it can give a lot. Your practice will be whatever you need it to be. All you have to do is listen.

Join me on the mat this week for two classes at Life.Love.Yoga. 😊 Check out their website for more information, including class descriptions, price and location: www.lifeloveyoga.com/home.html

🧘🏻‍♀️ Wed May 8th at 12:30 pm — Sweet Flow (60 min)
🧘🏻‍♀️ Thurs May 9th at 8:30 am — Vinyasa Flow (60 min)

No reservation necessary. See you there yogis!

Home we have been home to an eco-friendly yoga studio offering yoga classes in a variety of styles to all levels and abilities 7 days per week.

Come practice with me!

🧘🏻‍♀️ Tues April 30th at 6 pm — Yoga Basics (60 min)
🧘🏻‍♀️ Fri May 3rd at 8:30 am — Vinyasa Flow (60 min)

For more information check out the Life.Love.Yoga. page or the studio website here: http://www.lifeloveyoga.com/home.html

Stay tuned this week for an exciting upcoming event!!

Home that yoga is for EVERYbody, and we are committed to making yoga accessible and available regardless of age, shape, fitness level or financial status.

Join me on the mat this week at Life.Love.Yoga. in Sisters!

🧘🏻‍♀️Wed April 3rd at 8:30 am — Vinyasa Flow (60 min)
🧘🏻‍♀️ Fri April 5th at 10:00 am — Mindful Yoga (90 min)
🧘🏻‍♀️ Fri April 5th at 12:00 pm — Restorative/Yin Yoga (60 min)

No reservation necessary. See you there yogis 🌸

Illumination
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“East is the direction of Spring
and of the element air.
Its time of day is dawn.
Its time of life is birth.
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Spring is the season of bright
new beginnings.
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As the sun’s rays appear in the East
Earth awakens.
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Sleeping creatures begin to stir.
New life is born.
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Illumination is the virtue of the East,
when fresh ideas, new thoughts
and inspirations
spread their wings and fly.”

Empowered women empower women 💪🏼 Celebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. Thank you to all of the inspiring teachers who continue to show up everyday and show us what it means to be an empowered woman
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Bungee jumping 440 ft with 8.5 seconds of freefall: a practice in total presence.
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If you’ve ever done anything that provokes fear or anxiety (giving a speech, going to an interview, etc...) you know that the hours and even days leading up to it are spent imagining how it will go (or more likely everything that could go wrong!). Even the mere thought of the situation puts your body into fight or flight mode and activates the stress response, pumping hormones like cortisol through your system and shutting down organs and processes that your body deems unnecessary. The body is incredible, isn’t it?!
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The problem is that the threat isn’t even present. The combination of mental images and thoughts played out in your mind and the resulting body sensation is what gives us emotion, in this case fear. That’s all it is — mental images, thoughts and body sensation.
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When we don’t buy in or invest energy in to this mental process of projecting what the experience will be and feel like, we can practice total presence and pure awareness.
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This is what I practiced, over and over again, leading up to the jump. As we were brought out to the suspended platform. As each person before me jumped. As they double checked my harness and hooked me in. As I brought my toes over the edge, with nothing in front of me but an immense canyon. As they began to countdown and as I let my body slowly fall forward into emptiness. This is our daily practice — continually coming back to the present moment, continually encouraging ourselves to interact with what is concretely in front of us. Practice presence.

“Know thyself,” the Ancient Greek aphorism. When you know yourself thoroughly you begin to have awareness of your internal reactions before you act from them.
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A simple personal example, on a physical level: low blood sugar issues means I get tired, physically and mentally, very fast. Listening to my body and being aware of what it needs, I make sure to keep several protein bars and apples on me so that I can fuel my body and avoid lashing out at others because of low energy, headaches, bad mood, etc. After experiencing many such episodes I now know how my body functions, and I know to respect that and make it a priority.
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Practicing yoga invites us to change our relationship with our body to one of respect and gratitude. A consistent practice teaches us to develop a sense of deep listening, to be kinder to ourselves and to respect our limits.
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📷 Gold sand beaches at Anapai Bay, Abel Tasman National Park, NZ

Yoga is a living, breathing and moving thing. It’s not limited to the shapes we make with our body on the mat. It’s about our quality of life off the mat, too.
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As a yoga teacher my goal is to assist students is establishing a dynamic, safe and sustainable physical practice, and in helping students cultivate qualities that move off the mat.
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Our yoga practice is the most beneficial when it is fully integrated in to our life, when we begin to see our relationship with ourselves, with others and with the world change for the better.

🗺 New Zealand has been treating us well 🗺
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Some fun events and series coming up soon so keep and eye out! Until then be well and stay well my friends!

Peace with every breath 🌬 Join me tomorrow night at 7pm for a nourishing practice. For more information and to sign up visit my website here https://khyrawilhelm.wixsite.com/yogawithkhyra/events/nourishing-winter-slow-flow?fbclid=IwAR1Ox5ZoeGvoU1RjbcZ2511DBJS85H7euHy0_XzD_U3IcCRMGZSnMjNhlOg See you there friends 🧘🏻‍♀️
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Wisdom
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“North is the direction of Winter
and the element of Earth.
Its time of day is night.
Its time of life is old age.
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Night and winter are times of rest,
peacefulness and integration.
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Like Turtle, and ancient symbol for
Planet Earth, we learn to ground,
slowing to a pace that ensures
completion.
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Wisdom is the virtue of the North,
the confidence and contentment
born of experience.”

✨ Intention setting ritual for the New Year ✨

✍🏼 Have you taken time yet to sit down, maybe with pen and paper, to reflect on this past year?

🙏 Turning inward during this symbolic passing of time is a way to honor and have gratitude for past experiences that have led to this present moment. It is an opportunity to check in and ask yourself if you are living in accordance with your values and principles. Carve out some time today to reflect and set intentions 🙏

Happy New Year my dear friends and yogis, wishing you the best in the year to come!!