by Alison Bristow #shaktishaman #lusciouslightwave #dailylightwave
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This little k9 girl reminds of this everyday. And I believe it's true no matter what and even when it seems otherwise...
Love is the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #Ahimsa #advancedyoga
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A life of service is more rich than a life of celebrity.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #seva #lifeofservice
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Yesterday's mountain message at one of my new favorite hiking spots with our little pitbull boxer princess, and my intention for the New Year ~
consume less,
serve more.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #rockypeak #trailyoga #seva #theleastwillbegreatest #footwashing #loveoneanother #ahimsa #asteya #aparigraha #santosha #yama #niyama #beattitudes #sermononthemount #tencommandments #universaltruth #siddhasana
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This is something I finally learned in the year before I met my husband. And it's a perpetual lesson.
One of the great ironies of life is that what you want can't show up until you stop wanting it.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #dispassion #bramacharya #aparigraha #psalm23 #thelordismyshepherd #Ishallnotwant
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The day after Christmas is the perfect day to see the greatest gifts in life don't show up in wrapping paper.
A body in harmony, real love, a sense of purpose, and a quiet mind...these are the real treasures.
You can see my over developed rhomboids and trapezius. My samskara of over use...part of my journey in retraining and balancing sthira and sukha
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #santosha
#dharma #chittavrittinirodha #yogalife #ananda #advancedyoga #realgifts #upwardfacingopenanglepose #urdhvaupavisthakonasana #sthira #sukha #samskara
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I believe your soul is bigger than your story. (I really do!)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #trailyoga #Pratyahara#dhyana #dharana #dharma #gomukhasana #riseup #mountainperspective #tadasana #chittavrittinirodha
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A friend asked me for some inspiration this morning and this is what came through for them. I think it's a good one for me and hopefully you too!
Let your mind be used to expect all the good that Life has planned for you, rather than to doubt it.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #warriorconsciousness #virabadrasana1 #warrior1 #expectgood #dontdoubt #dontgiveup #namaste #faith #shraddha #practice #sadhana
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Happiness is when I no longer use circumstances or the behavior of others as a reason for a negative attitude.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #pratipakshabhavanam
#niyama #cowfacepose #gomukhasama #reverseprayer #reverseanjalimudra #namaste #mentalmastery #advancedyoga
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Holidays may come and go, but everyday can be a holy day.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #holyday #sacredmoments #heavenonearth #praywithoutceasing #samadhi #practice #urdhvamukhasvanasana #Pratyahara #pranayama #yogaeveryday #yogicpath #yogachallenge
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Practice for practice' sake and you'll never be stopped by disappointment.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #camelpose #ustrasana #practice #yogalife #yogachallenge #yogi #nomatterwhat #youarewhatyoupractice
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In the space between thoughts,
lies all possibility.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #slowdown #beyondthought #mentalconstruct #toestand#pistolstretch #Iamnotmythoughts #yogi #yogachallenge #Namaste #dhyana #samadhi
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Corporations can sell insurance, but only Love can give assurance.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #assurancevsinsurance #loverules #transcendfear #fearnot #trust #shraddha #samadhi #rajayoga #expectgood #advancedyoga #boundsidelunge #skandasana #baddhaskandasana #higherconsciousness #trueself #sadguru
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The true realist draws conclusions from Reality Itself, not from the fluctuating reports of the physical senses.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #reality #maya #insight #beyondblackandwhite #suptavirasana #ajna #perception #samadhi #advancedyoga #advancedspirituality
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Negative thoughts, no matter how justified, are incapable of producing positive outcomes.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #pratipakshabhavanam #thoughtsarethings #looktothelight #sundialpose #compasspose #parivrttasuryayantrasana #trailyoga #Pratyahara #redirectfocus #internalshift #mentaldexterity #manopratyahara
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Today Life calls me to live from my essence not my ego.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #hanumanasana #hanuman #karmayogi #karmayoga #karmapratyahara #bhaktiyoga #atman #soul #essence #trailyoga #advancedyoga #advancedspirituality
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At this pivotal time in human history, Wisdom is rewiring mankind to recognize the difference between excess and abundance.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #abundance #bramacharya #yama #niyama #wisdom #aparigraha #dancingshiva #trailyoga
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As your circle of compassion expands so does your circle of service.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave
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Learning to follow only the impulses that serve the greater good comes with spiritual maturity.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #karma #pratyahara #yama #niyama #tencommandments #highernature #yogi #beattitudes #pranayama #love #revolvedboundtrianglepose #parivrttabaddhatrikonasana #discern #selfdiscipline #bramacharya #wisdom
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Can you tell I took some pix next to my favorite local rock formation?! This place always inspires me.
Be a yogi with me this week!
Agoura Power of Yoga:
Tues/Thurs/Sun 9am Level 2/3
Saturday 10:45am Level 1/2
Equinox Westlake:
Wed 6am
Saturday 9am
To the novice a yoga pose is a physical exercise. To the yogi it's a way of mastering the mind.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #yogi #sthira #sukha #trailyoga #vinyasaflow #Namaste #8limbs #practice #pranayama #advancedyoga
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One thing I've been learning is how to tune into the tone of my mind...not what I'm thinking about, but the actual vibration of my mental field. This is fascinating self study or svadyaya. It's the key to gaining clarity on what is and isn't working in life because this tone more that what we think about will be reflected back to us in our circumstances. This tone is what repels and attracts. The great sages held their mind in such high vibration that they raised all in their field of awareness. Multitudes flocked to them for a taste of this light. It burns brightest when the eyes are closed and lights us up from the inside out. Know that when you uplift the vibration of your mind, you're literally lighting up the world.
High vibrational thoughts are the light of this world.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #pratipakshabhavanam #advancedyoga #yogachallenge #virabadrasana1 #warrior1 #svadyaya #trailyoga #lightoftheworld #sages
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Looking back I can see that sometimes life wasn't giving me the things I wanted because it was giving me the lessons I needed.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #lifelessons #trailyoga #hanumanasana #stretchyourself #samskara #Yogi #yogicpath #namaste #selfawareness #svadhyaya #yama #niyama #Lifeknows
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(In light of current events, I'm sharing tomorrow's message a day early. Love and peace to all!)
All day I'd been hearing about the Grand Jury decision surrounding Eric Garner, including several email requests to sign petitions. Toward evening when I had time to slow down I began to deal with all the impressions I was left with from the day. I had just finished an article on pratyahara - the practice of turning inward and away from external stimuli. Amid feelings of frustration, sadness, grief, and indignation, I knew I had to actively practice what I'd been preaching in that article. So I sat down, closed my eyes, and immediately the Bible verse that describes Jesus' version of pratyahara started repeating itself to me. To paraphrase, this is what it said, "enter into the closet and shut the door and pray to your Father/Mother in secret and your Father/Mother that sees in secret will answer you openly." As often happens when I get still and really FEEL the Presence, tears started to flood and I was lifted out of the micro and into a Macro view of the cosmos where I could see that the high profile injustice coming to the surface was coming as a result of a widespread awakening in human consciousness. In fact, it could only be seen because of the great goodness it was contrasting. Then the Pledge of Allegiance came to me like a prayer and I saw the universal Truth of it and how it has to apply to everyone if it applies to anyone. This heart opening inspiration took shape in my body with camel pose, ustrasana. The pose literally did me! I know it's ugly right now, but the muck has to come to the surface so it can be cleared away. That's what's happening. Let's take heart, keep being and doing good, and yield our minds to the force of Love rather than the force of hate -- even towards those who appear to be villains right now. In the big picture (and who wants to settle for the little picture), Love always wins.
"One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for ALL" is revealed Truth meant for all nations and races.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #universaljustice #justiceforall #onenation #onerace #nocolor #light #namaste #lovewins #bigpicture #ustrasana #camelpose #heartopener #anahata #yoga #union #oneness #universalallegiance #youmakeadifference #begood #dogood #youmatter #downwithdiscouragement
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According to the yoga sutras the purpose of an asana practice is to take us beyond duality. We use the opposites in order to transcend them. This supports yoga's ultimate goal - union with the True Self (which some might say is Truth Itself). Absolute Truth can never be found at the level of five sense perception. It's no accident that the world of the senses is often referred to as the "waking dream." It makes sense that someone like Albert Einstein, who ushered in a sense of reality far beyond what science had known before, spent hours in a meditative state. The profound truths in all scripture came through people who did the same. If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light...this is a paraphrase of something attributed to Jesus in the gospels. That "single eye" or one-pointed focus that is the goal of the advanced stages of yoga and all spirituality is where Truth dwells. Like Light includes all colors, but is not any one of them, so Truth includes all states and stages of consciousness, yet transcends each them all.
Truth exists independent of all mental constructs. It is recognized in the moments when human consciousness transcends duality.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #sattva #truth #singleeye #meditation #samadhi #pratyahara #dharana #dhyana #transcendduality #asana #eightlimbs #pranayama #yama #niyama #wakingdream #rainydayyoga #twistinglotus #revolvedlotuspose #higherconsciousness #beyondthebrain #sensedream
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Today's message is kind of the reverse way of saying what Sri K. Pattabhi Jois said, "Body is not stiff. Mind is stiff." I study with a teacher now who regularly helps me see that the areas where my body is dull, overactive, or inflexible are a reflection of my mentality. The body is visible thought so of course we first feel those things in our body and it's easy to just assume they originate there. But as our practice develops, we become more and more attuned to the subtle elements of our being. In yogic anatomy this is referred to as the subtle body. And many modern healing modalities are using one word to describe this invisible but unquestionable connection: bodymind. I love incorporating this awareness into my asana practice. It reminds me that I'm more malleable than my body might have me believe. It keeps me from not trying things that I think are beyond me and also reminds me not to force anything. The first time I found myself in the pose pictured - parivrtta baddha anjaneyasana - I realized it was a barrier in my mind more than my body that had been keeping me from it. That's what's cool about the meditative aspect of vinyasa flow -- we get beyond our own limits and the Self takes over. We come to this practice to discover all that we already are, rather than to get something.
Mobility is mental!
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing and Yoga
#dailylightwave #parivrttabaddhaanjaneyasana #pattabhijois #guru #bodymind #yogi #subtlebody #vinyasaflow #meditation #higherconsciousness
