Self-love is an inside job... Now you’re ready. You have all the tools, you’ve done all the work. This is where the deep rewiring and access to higher wisdom is attained. These last three limbs are all internally focused. Dharana, translated, means concentration. It’s the first sutra in the third chapter, titled “Extraordinary Powers”, just to give you an idea of where you’re headed. I find it easy to focus on a candle, or space exploration, or ideas like love, compassion, peace. Personally, through my steps along this path, taking the focus internally meant reconnecting to my body. As a child, I learned how to disconnect from my feelings as a way to protect myself. Through embodiment practices, not only through asana, but through therapeutic dance, tantric rituals, and energy bodywork, I able to tap into ancient traumas and ancestral patterning to be healed. But first, it was through yoga training I was able to refine my awareness enough to pick up on it. Fair warning, this work will heighten your sensitivity to the world. Actually, it brings it back online, thus where the extraordinary powers kick in. . . . #yogaeveryday #yogateacher #patanjaliyogasutras #loveyourself #selflove #dharana #relaxation #meditation #yogaphilosophy #concentration #yogaheals #yogatransforms (at Littlerock, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC1NVmeBrp5/?igshid=9o8vgynafxo1








