by Alison Bristow #shaktishaman #lusciouslightwave #dailylightwave
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When Life asks you to do something you can confidently accept, knowing She wouldn't ask unless you were ready.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #vasisthasanavariation #sideplankposevariarion #dharma #parakrama #courage
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Your deepest offering is also your highest.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #ardhachandrasana #halfmoonpose #dharma #bhakti
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A practice is conscious repetition undertaken to transcend the unconscious repetition of habit.
(Old habits in the body/mind seem to yield slowly in warrior lll. It feels like the hips are neutral even when they're not. This is where we advance into proprioceptive awareness and it can be very uncomfortable. In my experience, there's tremendous resistance to aligning the body beyond its habits in this pose in particular. It takes courage as a teacher to stand for this deeper awareness - not for esthetics, but for the liberation of students in both body and mind beyond the dullness of unconscious patterning.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #virabhadrasana3 #warrior3 #viparitanamaskar #reverseprayerhands #samskara #habitualpattern #sadhana #practice
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There's no time in presence.
(Doing a pose like standing splits at the wall requires more consciousness which in turn brings us into fuller presence. One of the most beneficial things about incorporating props into the practice of asana is that it lights up the dull places of our body and mind. This prepares the body/mind for the most advanced yoga - meditation. For this one it's a good idea to start with the hands further away from the wall. If your feet are sensitive you can place a towel between your foot and the wall.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #urdhvaprasaritaekapadasana #standingsplits #presence #dharana #concentration #dhyana #meditation
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Better to heal the fear than it is to forever avoid what you're afraid of.
(My newly discovered variation of janu sirsasana - head to knee forward bend. You need to use the opppsite arm to position the arm behind the back with fingertips facing upward and heel of the hand pressing down. The lower your hand is on the back, the less intense the stretch. Be sure to square both shoulders forward as you draw the bent elbow in and back. This stretch can be pretty scary and it's not for everyone but it is very potent. )
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #janusirsasanavariation #shoulderopener #abhinivesha #fearofdeath #avidya #ignorance #loveoverfear
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Often you must resist your tendencies in order to surrender to the flow of Life.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #vrksasana #treepose #kailashmudra #mtkailash #sthirasukha #balance #pratipakshabhavanam #cultivatetheopposite #asana #transcendduality
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Rough circumstances are to character what sandpaper is to wood.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #baddhaparighasana #boundgateposevariation #tapas #transformationalheat
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The light not only shines
on the one who turns on the
switch; it shines on everyone
in the room.
Alison Wilburn Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #suptavisvamitrasana #turnonthelight #Namaste
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Let the movement on the outside reveal the stability on the inside.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #sthirasukha #asana #visvamitrasanavariation
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The mind without an anchor is swayed by any wind and tossed by any storm.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #navasana #boatpose #abhyasa #practice #sthira #stability #grounding
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Instead of trying to change whatever triggers like or dislike within you, direct all effort towards transcending the process of liking and disliking.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #anjaneyasanavariation #attachment #raga #aversion #dvesha
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Meditation trains us to turn on the relaxation response instead of the stress response and this is extremely good for our well-being.
Alison Wilburn Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #vimanasana #airplanepose #dhyana #relaxationresponse #meditationisessential
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Pssst...the mind is the source of many things; truth is not one of those things. Don't be fooled.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #gateposevariation #asymmetrical #avidya #ignorance #vidya #clearseeing #viveka #discernment
