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✨Riders On The Storm.. yeah.. Jim Morrison ✨ (at Jim Morrison)

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"What do you want to show?" "That I am strong, unyielding, a warrior" I laughed, as I played with the skull in my hands. "But there is a very soft side of you Rebecca, I have witnessed this many times before, it is a big part of who you are" her face was serious. "I know" I murmured. I surrendered my obstinacy as I sat on the floor, looking down. I felt like a scolded child caught out in a lie. She took the photograph. #yogateacher #brisbaneyoga #brisbanephotographer #photographer #darkphotography #photography #innerchild #surrender #vulnerability #vulnerabilityisstrength 📷 @saltmamastudio
My office at dawn. Do you love the things about yourself that are a little unusual? I hope so! I have pretty weird feet huh!? They are an atavism, prehuman grasping toes that give me a bit of a balancing advantage. The Ancient Greeks and Renaissance sculptors used to praise these feet. The Egyptians however preferred a different aesthetic. The Statue of Liberty has a longer second toe, bless her. For over 5000 years foot reading has been practiced in India and China. It is said that a longer second toe shows that a person inspires confidence in others, that sounds pretty nice so I'm going with that. I used to get teased about my feet, now I walk barefoot proudly because despite their unusual appearance and occasional discomfort, they continue to serve me. What's your thing? I bet at one point or another some culture somewhere has thought your body form was incredible. You should too! I see a lot of bodies. No two are exactly the same with different marks, shapes, abilities and scars, each one I find beautiful in its individuality as well as the soul that resides within. There are some things we can change, others we can not. If there is self-doubt and insecurity in you, you had best find a way to flip that around or it will get you down. You can do that at any time. You get to choose self acceptance or a war inside. Not 'this' enough, not 'that' enough.. let it go because you are enough. The war of body shame will always negatively impact the way you experience and interact with the world. It is often the most insecure person that wreaks havoc cutting others down. There is a healing process one must undergo in order to make peace with oneself and to make peace with others. I want that for all of us. 🎶On our playlist today we have The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Asaf Avidan, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd and Apocalyptica (because a Finnish cello metal band is always a good idea, their song Conclusion is a beautiful piece of music, check it out) #yoga #yogateacher #firestarter #hotyoga #dawn #yogaspace #yogamat #yogainspiration #yogamusic #yogaeverydamnday #feet #loveyourbody #office #reflexology #insecure #innerpeace #bullying
On The Turning Away..
As we held the posture a little longer and I spoke about the nature of how this warrior pose may make you feel fierce to face what sensation is being offered in the body, I then mentioned “it may also make you say something like “when will Rebecca shut the fuck up and change the pose”. Swearing.. I explained I had a teacher who told me profanity of language was a subtle form of violence, I never argued with him but I didn’t agree. Swearing can be an intense form of expressing mateship and love. One of my favourite ways to swear is to say “I fucking love you” In my opinion there is nothing unholy about that sentence. I don't always swear in class, with this group I know them intimately and they know me. We are in love, I fucking love them. Completely comfortable with each other. I accept them and they accept me. Most of them I have known and worked with for years now. Some days I am poetic, others days we just laugh at my absurd use of clumsy metaphors.
As I went to choose a chilled out Pink Floyd song for savasana without a gnarly disruptive break, Wish You Were Here began to ring through the room.. one women said “play On The Turning Away it is perfect”. I searched “ah I don't have that one, but I will have it for you next time I promise” I whispered. The song finished and they rested there a moment. I began to ramble as I often do. “Often we seek love outside of ourselves, pining, wanting, wishing that someone was here.. some other lost soul swimming in our fish bowl. What if we applied the concept of self love, metta (loving kindness) and aparigraha (non-possessiveness, non-grasping, non-greed)? What if the person we were wishing for was just ourselves, to be here to witness us from within, to love, support, accept and understand ourselves fully. What if we were not lost souls but we found who we are? Content to possess who we are and nothing more. Wouldn’t that be the most sustainable and trustworthy love of all? The love that would never leave you.
The woman spoke to me after class, in her strong South African accent, an engineer, sharp, intelligent and stunning, she said “On The Turning Away is the best Pink Floyd song.” She then began to tell me a story. “I was dating a man, when I would swear I could see him grit his teeth, he explained that swearing displayed a lack of understanding. So I simply told him, good thing I don't give a fuck what you think” I fell to one knee and raised my arms in celebration of this woman. “yes! you are incredible, fuck yes that you said that.” I smiled. “yeah we didn't last too long after that” she laughed and said “Through my dating experience I have come to know there is a 50/50 chance. 3 men didn't choose me and I didn't choose the other 3.” Thats a wonderful thing I thought, because it appeared to me that she chose herself on the turning away and it wasn't really a turning away at all but turning towards herself and embracing unapologetically everything she is. I purchased the song and have been listening to it, trying to figure it out. No more turning away.. light that isn’t changing to shadow.
Rebecca Crowther
"The #dahomeyamazons intense asskicking #women single-mindedly devoted to hardening themselves into ruthless instruments of battlefield #destruction, machete-wielding, musket-slinging lady terminators were rightly-feared throughout Western #Africa for over 250 years, not only for their fanatical devotion to #battle.. If you were some poor conscript douchebag militia #soldier hanging out around your barracks and you saw these scary-as-fuck kill-chicks suddenly start charging out of the woods in your direction, screaming their #war chants with their muskets barking fire and their signature double-edged two-foot-long machetes brandished threateningly over their heads, you had one fleeting moment to overcome your crippling panic and defend yourself. Because if you failed to kill them – and I mean if you failed to kill every single last fucking one of them, some murderous #woman was going to club you unconscious with a musket butt, drag you back to her capital, chop off your head with one swing of her machete, boil the skin off of your decapitated face, and then use your #skull to decorate the royal palace. Once a woman was in the Amazons, she became off-limits – she was forbidden to have sex and the crime for any man laying even a single finger on an #Amazon was instant death. Amazons went through intense #physicaltraining that far exceeded anything the male soldiers were willing to undertake. They wrestled, fought, and underwent grueling #callisthenics and brutally-long runs on a daily basis." Excerpt from Ben Thompson's article. badassoftheweek.com. website 👌🏽Witness accounts of a woman tearing out a mans larynx with her teeth. Brutal. How does this relate to yoga? Many Vedic scriptures predating Patanjalis #YogaSutras are about war, such as the #BhagavadGita 3000 years before Patanjali's work. In modern #yoga we see #warriorpose s designed to bring forth a fierceness of disposition based on vedic war stories, these were metaphors for the battle of #life. Wars fought to uphold righteousness over wickedness. Not green smoothies. Fuck #kale. Hail #Shiva. #mahakali #yogainspiration #strengthandconditioning #photography #slay #fitness #saltmamastudio 📷 @saltmamastudio

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Dancing is one of my expressions of light. Lightness of heart through lightness of movement, a method for shifting through dark. 'Tamas' or darkness, destruction, inertia is one of the 3 Gunas, 3 qualities that exist in all, it is important to maintain balance for inner peace. 'Rajas' drives energy and action. 'Sattva' is purity and goodness. I find it useful when stuck in Tamas to simply move and watch where your body wants to go. Then apply a little Rajas and a little Sattva. Conscious application of the other traits, allow balance to be restored. Depending on your state in that moment you may move slowly, awkwardly and even feel disconnected from your body but then there is generally a shift, action and purity of heart allow oneself to uplift from the state of dark. ✨ This dance is what happened last night when I was waiting for @jodie_milton to show up for a super girly sleep over after I finished work. Anticipating for that soft voice to talk to me at night. #dance #cardio #fitness #dancetherapy #dancelife #docmartins #dancingshoes #5rhythms #yogateacher #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogapractice #youcanthurrylove or Jodie #girlsnight #thesupremes #freeformmovement #brisbane #strengthandconditioning #meditation #gunas #sattva #rajas #tamas #yogaphilosophy #samkya #philosophy #the60s
Friday, 9th September 2016 Today something happened and I wanted to share this story because it is a ‘the universe is constantly changing and supporting you’ and a ‘power of human connection story’.
Layla..
I have seen this woman many times in class and adjusted her yoga postures but today, I was adjusted and I really saw her. Her shoulder blade was exposed, I read the small words in cursive tattooed across her skin ‘Layla.. you got me on my knees’. I felt these words held a very different meaning to her, I recognised the lyrics with a heaviness in my chest. I noticed a change in me begin, the kind of change I couldn’t make alone.
As the other students rolled up their mats to leave, I bent down, scrolled through my playlist, took a very deep breath and pressed play. “See if you can spot this one” Eric Clapton says in a cool tone. A familiar riff fills the room. I turn it up loud. He sings “what will you do when you get lonely”. Her eyes lit up instantly and her body began to dance, mine followed as it usually does. We swayed and sang together, she strummed an imaginary guitar. I will treasure this moment for all time.
This small observation of a few words that meant a lot to her and my decision to let her know that I noticed, was a surrendering of my feelings in order to witness another person, despite the discomfort I thought it would cause. I really wanted to see who she was in that song, not me, just her. After the last notes left the air, she began to tell me about the song for her, she has 12 or so versions of Layla, she likes them all, she could play the song on both an electric and acoustic guitar - this was her one goal for such a long time but she was not sure if she still knew how. I hope she plays it when she gets home. She told me how seeing Eric Clapton play in London was the best moment of her life. Then she said “he is getting old now”. The words ‘old now’ often hold a lot of feeling, one day soon the artist that contributed to her favourite song may not be around anymore, he has changed from the man of the era of the song.. ageing. As we all do.
I asked her if she had read his autobiography because my friend told me he was kind of a bastard “Is that true? What do you think?”. She told me it is a sad story, he drank a lot and that I should read it sometime. I reflected and summoned up some compassion “I guess living like that would be really hard, one day I might read it”.
I did not tell her what the song meant to me, because I was no longer sure, it was different now and I would never want to tarnish something special to her with my story anyhow. I had been dancing to that song on New Years Eve. The sequence of events since have all been very difficult to navigate. I had avoided Layla, too much pain in that song.
When I decided to play this to her today, I made a choice, how going through something painful for me would bring joy to her. That was all that mattered because I knew that her joy would be contagious, how this song clearly uplifted her soul and for a little while today my soul followed hers, from my darkness of experience into the her light of her experience. I’d been hoping that her smile would brighten the overcast sky outside, as she went about her day.
To live in the moment can take tremendous courage, at least that is how I felt when I hit play. Being present can mean leaving your old ideas behind and allowing new ideas and feelings in, based on the current reality and to continue doing that every second. To rewrite and edit your story constantly, over and over. The draft is saved somewhere but you get to choose what you publish right now.
It is these connections of the heart that have kept me going, it is where i draw my fortitude. When I connect and get to really see a person, when they let me in, all I want to do is give them more of what inspires them, makes them sing, dance and play air guitar. That is light. That is love. That is my job. Love is everywhere if you’ll only notice, love resides within you, sometimes just the faintest flicker of a flame, but it is there. Protect it and watch over it as if you had already burnt out your last match.
For this positive experience to occur I had to allow myself to become vulnerable, for someone so verbally and physically expressive and also quite open, I actually dislike vulnerability a lot. All past attempts of vulnerability have been traumatic. I much prefer to claw for strength even when I am scratching from limited inner resources. To let go of my foolish pride generally is met with an inner whisper of “no”. It may not really seem like a big deal but today I listened to a song that I knew would pang, yet I found solace in this woman’s disposition and her story. I hope I added another layer of happiness to the meaning of that tattoo on her shoulder blade. The memory of us dancing and singing together.
I doubt I will ever be unmoved by how we are all so similar, yet still so unique. What one song meant to me, had a whole different meaning to her. Today I think I took a step forward, because I can at least listen to it now if I want. I like that song, I prefer the acoustic variation.
Miss Taylor… You got me on my knees. You turned my whole world upside down.
Rebecca Crowther
At the Manikarnika Ghat there is a fire that has burned continuously for thousands of years, a pyre that never knows of idleness, where at least one body will burn at all times, for all time. There you may find the Aghora boiling his rice in a fresh skull each day as he performs his ritual, his Sadhana, deeply worshipping the Destroyer of the cosmos, Shiva the very embodiment of death. It is living here in the smashan that repugnance is lost living among corpses and bones. When repugnance is lost, fear is lost, without fear there is no shame. #yoga #shiva #pyre #sadhu #fearless #Aghora #Aghori #tantra #tantrayoga #manikarnika #manikarnikaghat
Last night I had the honour of attending a showcase of performing women after they had completed a 6 week intimacy and sexuality workshop with a dear friend of mine, Jodie from www.yourprimalessence.com. Acts that were incredibly raw. Women, many of which had never performed, sharing themselves despite the attributed vulnerability of taking to the stage to bear themselves, stand proud in their sexuality without shame, in front of a group of strangers and partners. I sat there, I watched and for most of it I cried. From a place I've never cried from before... Inspired .. So fucking inspired. Yesterday I also found this Hot Chocolate record at the record store, this song rocked my world. So... What did I get from all of this. There is a brilliance within each of us, it is harder for some to share it with the world. When you share who you are you become vulnerable and unless you are very brave then that can just be too scary so we hide. But my god I wish you would share it every moment, because your individuality and confidence of bringing who you truly are into the world is just so special. So here I'll start.. Go do something from your heart ❤️ #discoqueen #freedomofexpression #hotchocolate #dancing #loungeroomdancing #kitchendancing #musicisherlover #dance #happydance #disco #discodiscopartyparty #vulnerability #shame #bravery #shineonyoucrazydiamond
Just happy to be here.. Arriving at work 😁#currentmood #dancing #backtowork #yoga #yogateacher #joblove #dreamjob #ilovemyjob #indooroopilly #kenmore #brisbane #holistichealing #holistichealth #happiness #joy #urbanyogi

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These Mystics they say that everything will pass and things did feel different after that. Except for the longing.. The longing to be back there and to feel those moments of truth, when all the books became felt instead of read and the experience of connection like nothing I had been brave enough to know. If I try to visualise what I saw that day in a rudimentary yoga hall in India, all I see is black, deep darkness, infinite black but somehow filled with light at the same time. The vastness of space that exists within each of us, I saw it with my eyes closed and I felt it from deep within my chest. Still I cant help the amusing notion that I left some part of me at the summit of a mountain in a far away land. Because I have this overwhelming urge to run there and for what? darkness and light? Those things are right here.. Isn't it crazy to run searching for what is missing when what you're looking for is right here. 'You'll always look for what you have lost until you find it' I always hated that saying... A wanting for the past is a terrible disease only exacerbated further by an obsession with the future. #yoga #yogateacher #india #presence #asana #yogapose #yogaposes #yogavideo #holisitic #holistichealing #darkness #light #space #time #pastpresentfuture #thepowerofnow #quotes #glennfrey I have the wobbles and can hardly sit down after training with @craigandersson @bella_andersson 😂
I was half a moon but a full warrior. I battled the sun and with our opposing forces we calmed the ocean, we sat by and watched the neap tide 🌗☀️🌊#halfmoonpose #ardhachandrasana #warriorpose #virabhadrasana #yoga #yogateacher #thoughtoftheday #yogaphilosophy #thinkstoomuch #talkstoomuch #meditation #pranayama #fluidity #shiva #destroyerofillusion #thirdquartermoon #neaptide #ocean #sea #beach #waves #tides #quote #poetry #halfmoon #sun #chandra #surya
The Sun was so bright I had no choice but to bow before him in wonderment. It was in those moments of surrender, that I realised that every ounce of grace and softness that I possess comes through this practice and without it I am primitive and crude. In darkness I was left feeling abandoned by my luminous soul, even though it was me who had rejected it. Just like when the morning sun comes in too bright and you reach to pull the blinds, not ready for the day, I closed my eyes and I could see as if by no choice, it was within me all along. Light through the cracks of the shutters. A tiny little fragile light just waiting to blaze. #sunsalutation #sunworshipper #suryanamaskara #sivananda #yoga #yogateacher #yogateacherbrisbane #yogamusic #flexiblility #fitness #spinalhealth #chakra #tantra #strengthtraining #spiritualpractice #heartopener #innerpeace #light #naturallight #sunrise 🎶 Stars of the Lid's A meaningful moment in a meaning(less) process #ameaningfullmomentinameaninglessprocess #starsofthelid #holistichealing #currentmood (at Urban Yogi)
✨The easiest way for me to open my heart is to give, the easiest thing for me to give is what I know, how happy I am for this day to come, to again love the ones who come to receive ✨ Tomorrow morning at 9.30am I will be back teaching at Urban Yogi in Kenmore, just the one class this week, in this beloved, safe and wonderfully adorable space in Wongabel Street with morning light only Surya himself could dream of. Effective 15th February. I will be back in both of the Urban Yogi studios for my usual hours which are as follows ✨ Mon. 6am, Indooroopilly ✨Mon. 9.30am Kenmore ✨Mon. 10.45am Kenmore ✨Tues. 6am Kenmore ✨Wed. 6am Indooroopilly ✨Wed. 9.30am Indooroopilly ✨Thurs. 9.30am Indooroopilly ✨Fri. 9.30am Indooroopilly ✨ I am so happy to see our students again soon✨ for more information check out the website www.urbanyogi.com.au ✨ #yoga #yogateacher #brisbane #kenmore #indooroopilly #meditation #pranayama #asana #flexiblility #strength #functionalmovement #dreamjob #quotes #thoughtoftheday #love #heartopener #backwardbend #freedomofexpression #teacher #surya #suryanamaskara #brisbaneyoga #fitness
The Yoga Den Teacher Training Course starts running really soon and there are a few places left. If you have been thinking about deepening your practice or your dream job is to become a yoga teacher, I highly recommend this course. Running over 12 months, you will complete your 350 hour certification. Often people ask me about where to start with a teacher training, 12 months with a senior teacher committed to your learning is a great place to start, it is also really great that Dan is there for you after your initial teacher training to help you with your ongoing training and development. Contact Dan and check out the Website for more details ✨🙏🏼✨ #yoga #yogateacher #yogateachertraining #yogaphilosophy #brisbaneyoga #westend #brisbane #theyogaden #dreamjob #goldcoastyoga

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@carlasakrzewski wrote to me this daily premonition. The most inspirational thing I've ever seen. She knows me maybe too well. #ifiwouldntgetarrested #summer #sensibleclothing #staycool #fortuneteller #strayamate #underpants #leatherjacket #browgame #hobochic
@vitruvianpersonalfitness Matt getting me back into some active movement, working on warrior 1 stances and warrior 3. Working with an Exercise Physiologist has really changed the way I have approached my yoga practice and I feel really fortunate to have found one that has respect for yoga and its benefits. Adding layers upon layers to my physical awareness and layers beyond is a big part of yoga, Matt helps me to consistently refine and provide additional technical feedback about my alignment as well as prompting me to think about how I cue students. He also cops a lot of my sass talk when I get cross, that cranky person that comes out when I have to lift heavy things. Today there was none of that. Just happiness to be moving better. Often when I am immersed in my yoga practice nothing much phases me and I'm really calm. Polarity in life is what makes me feel it's richness and become aware of its depth, so I do this kind of work to make me feel anything different. It's the same reason I'll listen to ambient music or Sanskrit chanting of the Patanjali Yoga Sutras one minute and then death metal the next. Life in Contrast. All the feels. Because the sattvic (harmony, peace, goodness) life is lovely but Rajas (passion, active, fire) and Tamas (destruction, chaos, darkness) have their place in the human being and should be balanced as such. #yoga #yogaphilosophy #exercisephysiologist #yogateacher #yogateachertraining #freedom #freedomofexpression #koshas #gunas #sattvic #rajas #tamas #brisbaneyoga #polarity #yogabasics #individuality #death #life #fitness #chickswholift #lunges #squats #warrior #warriorone #virabhadrasana #peace #holistichealing #brisbanepersonaltrainer #deathmetal #spiritualhealing