#giannayoga

We are thrilled with the opportunity to share some of our favorite superfood eats with Gianna Purcell, one of our favorite Raw Vegan yoga teachers! Join us at 7:30pm Saturday, January 20th at @heirloomsuperfood for an evening designed to fuel and replenish the body with fresh and delicious raw vegan fare, supplemented by organic cold pressed juices and an extra dose of anti inflammatory goodies by @e3live. Mingle with Gianna, @zebyoga from Yoga Factory, @edenmyers from E3Live and @greenjuiceandyoga from PJC, among many other familiar faces. You're sure to learn something you didn't know AND you'll feel great the next day! Watch for a flash sale all day Thursday 1/18, link in bio. Discount code: CabinFever #Repost @giannayoga ・・・ I had a student over the weekend share her story of back pain and life struggles as a women in her late 40s with an unexpected pregnancy. Her body aches, it’s unrecognizable to her, and her energy is low. We spend a couple hours backbending in various ways to explore the spine and put together a regimen. The first thing she noticed was she felt great in the back bend but coming in and out was horrible. The last thing she noticed and the end of class was that she felt things, feelings/ sensations/ feedback, but it wasn’t pain. This was one session spend on the spine. These are the small signs of progress, of pain leaving the body, of the body working out the pain. We have been given asana for a variety of reasons but the first most obvious one is for the body. We are smart little machines and with the proper tools, we can heal. Literally ringing out the pain in our bodies will works towards ringing out our disfunction’s in our heads. Come see me @yogafactorypgh this weekend. Let’s move and laugh together while we share stories and experiences💫 #yoga #backpain #healyourspine #health #yogalove #love #yogini #backbend #yogaworkshop #yogaworks #giannayoga #instagood #yogisofinstagram #poseoftheday #inspiration #yogainspo (at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Honestly, sometimes I just can’t find comfort in my mind. I’m spinning, I’m not present, I’m distracted and upset. Even after practice. No! A yoga class does not fix everything. Helps though... So I put cloths that I feel good about wearing on. Organic materials in my favorite colors. I do me up a bit and go superficial feel goods because sometimes the brain is a scary place and I have to get the fuck out of there. @hara_thelabel is my jam. My favorite colors in the perfect fabric. Happy to be home in cozy clothes. Ready for a nap. #yoga #giannayoga #queeryogateacher #harathelabel #queer #tattooedyogi #tattoo (at South Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5284mkHjNb/?igshid=m4c5yx9dl4d1

Yoga retreat and.courses rishikesh 2020 www.openlotusyogaretreat.com #openlotusyogaretreat #giannayoga #rishikesh #yogaretreat #yogacourse #yogatravel #indiaretreat #spiritual #ganga #ashram #meditation #kirtan #om (at Rishikesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/B52GNe0nvC1/?igshid=lod5b97g3u5k

I’ve spent my whole adult life traveling and being the one that’s gone. I’ve seen beautiful places and made long lasting families in multiple countries. I have friends in every corner of the world. I have found deep corners of myself that needed some light and have escaped many dark patches because of my ability to move and evolve to new surroundings. I have done much of my traveling and busied my schedule because I’ve been looking for something. Success, myself, the right city to tell me is home. It’s cost me much but given me more. I have insight I could have never gotten any other way. Now. I have a home. I have a partner. I have a place, life, and the drive to start a family. In all honesty, I’m sick of traveling alone. I love being on my own and cherish this time but I am ready to be home. I’ve always been in a hurry to know more. I’ve always been hungry for the next thing. For the first time, I am satiated and enjoying unpacking what I have. Contentment has come. I’ll always be a seeker and a traveler but the goals and vision has changed. —— Come to India with @caro__lokah and I. We are unsure of our 2021 dates as that will be baby makin season. So sign up for 2020 Rishikesh trip now! 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 #yoga #travel #travelingyogi #giannayoga #queeryogateacher #queer #practice #evolution #tattoo #tattooedyogi (at Chiang Mai, Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/B44ythHHiaO/?igshid=1w0yeslzguaw6

I have been playing a lot with my relationship to my relationships. The best gift my ex-wife gave me was making hard and fast decisions for herself and pissing me off. Letting me down, changing her mind, standing up for her self after not doing so for so long, and deciding that our relationship was a bad one. This did not came into my mind when we were together. I never thought we had a bad relationship. I knew there were arguments where everything seems so wrong and like too much but I thought this was normal. I thought that’s what a relationship was. Her decision to make that shift in her mind made me angry and dislike her quite a bit. I thought of all the times that she withheld from me, pretending she understood me, or told me things were fine. I didn’t know all that was going on until after the fact which built anger. I felt I was left out of what was happening in my own life. That anger helped me better separate. It made me realize that humans always abuse other humans in different ways while in relations, with someone else or ourselves. Passive aggression, lies, withholding, not listening, snapping, hitting, expecting or demanding, neglecting. All these things are results of us being triggered or reactive, having an experience, responding from a lower sense of self...acting human. If your long term relationship doesn’t have one small ounce of this, you’re magic. What brings us back together and whole is being genuine and processing our actions. Taking responsibility for our part in a partnership. Having the courage to say I’m sorry, and not blame ourselves or the other persons but use an objective mind. Our last interaction really made me mad. Stepping back and realizing how we both played a part in destroying what we started helped me process my anger. Using my anger to simply separate from her more was necessarily. Taking responsibility for my actions has helped me remember why I’ll always love her. Not everyone that has demonstrated abuse is an abuser but their actions can be that of one. Take a step back. Apologies and Forgive. #yoga #divorce #giannayoga #queer #queeryogateacher #tattoo #tattooedyogi 📸: @stockwell_darren (at วัดล่ามช้าง) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4XlZ0cHofc/?igshid=1m12e0c6j8gi3

This trip includes visits to Delhi, Agra, Rishikesh, and Haridwar., is meant to bring you to experience authentic India, enjoy hatha yoga, and play with the greater practices of yogic living. Our maximum number of participants is 12, allowing for an intimate experience.