#thisisnotyoga

Wheel on wheels #tbt when nature inspired me to move. 🧘‍♀️ Remember, the pose is NOT the destination! This was 10years ago and I cannot get back into this back extension like this. Two births later and years of uprooting and healing serious trauma, my body is in a totally different place now. I feel more free in myself than ever before...but my wheel pose definitely does not look like this version. The great thing is, the poses are PART OF A JOURNEY to reconnect with yourself, become embodied, become aware through the body so that you may build your muscles of awareness and perception. From there we use these new muscles of awareness on and off the mat. #thisisnotyoga #asanainnature #inspiredtomove #urdvadhanurasana #yogateacherlife #acupuncturist #ayurvedaforyogateachers https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzy08LKHgRK/?igshid=1iq5w1yyk0ya6

This IS NOT yoga! 😲 This is an asana, a posture, performed in nature in front of a camera. 🙂 Art, possibly. 👌🏼 A moment in time captured on film, yes.👍🏻 Yoga, no. 🤨 . . . #tbt Autumn 2005 mini-road trip with my two closest friends in Chinese Medicine school @jeremycornishlac and @joshuagreenlac visiting my aunt @einsteinthecrystalskull in Sedona, Arizona. . . . . Why is this NOT yoga??? A photo can be so beautiful and sooooo deceiving all at the same time. Yoga is a practice for the mind and can a photo capture the mind of the subject? While a photo can be beautiful and inspiring, it is typically staged. At least for me, in the moments I have been profoundly and deeply connected, I could care less about a photo or remembering the moment on film. I 💓 practicing in nature and when feel called to perform certain postures in nature, will do it (if possible). Sometimes I literally feel a place beckon me into a certain pose, as if the vibration of a place is matching the vibration of a posture. DESIRING a memory of that moment, I might capture it on film--like this photo. But this is not yoga, this is just asana in nature. #asanainnature #cobrapose #thisisnotyoga #yogateacherinspiration (at Sedona, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxhCkcxnDOC/?igshid=1od3dw4wnb1z5

Ma’at. Day 2 of the #KhepeRaChallenge is STILLNESS... def needed to reflect on stillness and just STOP today. Eye have had less the 5 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours, yet feeling super charged UP!!! Even tho it was just for 11 minutes, eye really needed to chill for those 11 minutes and just breath. Eye experienced a flood of ideas and felt even more fueled after the meditation. Just sat at my ancestor table with two candles and some palo santo with my eyes closed.✨🙏🏾✨ . . . As far as this picture tho, this is Ma’at, the feather of truth, cosmic harmony, reciprocity, balance and justice. Keep your heart LIGHT as a feather. The ancient movement practice we all know as yoga has an ancient Afrakan origin. Some people call it Kemetic Yoga, some call it Smai Tawi and one of my elders @baabaheru_creates coined it as Ari Ankh Ka. If you’re interested in learning about this lesser known but more ancient form of the practice, look out for our #thisisNOTyoga sessions coming back this spring/summer at #TehutiMaatGarden ☀️🌻✨ . . . What’s your stillness practice?? Want to start your 28 day #KhepeRaChallenge today? Accept the challenge at TMA.HightopsandHeels.com #HightopsandHeels #HTxH #Maat #afrohair #naturalhair #smaitawi #kemeticyoga #ariankhka #selflove #stillness #meditation #kemet #kemetic #healing #healers #holistichealth #holistichealing #spirituality #plantbased #veganchallenge #healthiswealth #nyc #ostrichfeathers

The 'yoga master'. #daughter #nadramohdfairus #cuteyogaforkids #thisisnotyoga #yoga