by Alison Bristow #shaktishaman #lusciouslightwave #dailylightwave
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As understanding opens, the illusory gap between body & mind closes.
(Sukhasana or easy pose is the most mentally and physically challenging pose for most people. The consciousness it calls forth for prolonged stillness has to be cultivated.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #sukhasana #easypose #bodymind #understanding #viveka #clearseeing
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Spirituality isn't about avoiding uncomfortable circumstances. It's about using them to heal the place
in you that made the situation uncomfortable.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #parvrittaardhachandrasana #revolvedhalfmoon #spiritualwarrior
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What appears as your physical body is really your visible mind. As a primarily mental construct it is as elastic and amenable to healing and transformation as your mind.
(This dolphin pose variation is one that Ana Forrest calls Flash Prep. Finding equilibrium between the right and left sides with the asymmetrical shoulders and arms sparks all kinds of new awareness. It also dramatically wakes up the dormant areas in the chest. Super important to practice mindfully otherwise this pose becomes a very bad idea.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #dolphinposevariation #flashprep #equilibrium #bodymind #bodyasvisiblemind #koshas #subtlebody #astanga #eightlimbs
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You don't exist because you have a body; you have a body because you exist.
(Lifting legs in downward dog is a common thing in vinyasa flow classes. Because it's repeated many times its so important to do it mindfully. But its considered a no-brainer so it's rarely in the spotlight. One really simple thing you can do that corrects many misalignment habits is to maintain equilibrium between the right and left sides of your body when you lift the leg. Especially notice what happens in your hips, spine, and shoulders and restore balance in those areas and be sure to engage your abdominal muscles.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #adhomukhasavasana #downwardfacingdog #equilibrium #sthirasukha #paradigmshift #newperspective #subtlebody #visiblemind
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My prospects for life depend greatly on which heritage I most choose to identify with - the material or the spiritual.
(Pictured is a wonderful supported variation of double pigeon or fire log pose. The full version with shins stacked is inaccessible for most people. Often in trying to force it the ankles sickle, causing misalignment in the knees and hips. The modification in the picture ensures you get all the benefits without any harmful side effects.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #pigeonposevariation #agnistambhasana #yogateacherfeet #spiritualheritage #origin #OM
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Humanity will make rapid progress when thevlove of goodness supersedes the love of goods.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #purvottanasana #intenseeastwardfacingstretch #upwardfacingplankpose #brahmacharya #nonexcess #aparigraha #nonpossessiveness #goodnessovergoods
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When I have everything figured out I'll take the time to meditate. Or... When I take the time to meditate everything will figure itself out.
(This is proven to be over and over again, but I still forget.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #salambasarvangasana #supportedshoulderstand #dhyana #meditation #nowisthetime
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Our asana practice teaches us that what feels good is often harmful & what feels uncomfortable is often really good.
(This is one of the most challenging poses for me and brings me face to face with hyper mobility in the lower back. What feels good to me in this pose is harmful and what's good for me is extremely uncomfortable. We really must get to the point where we know the difference. So often we run away from discomfort thinking it's harmful and revert to what feels good not realizing it's harming us.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #lshapedhandstand
#ahimsa #knowthedifference #viveka #discernment #vidya #clearseeing #asana
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As different aspects of the same substance, the body is as malleable as the mind & the mind is as tangible as the body.
(Child's pose with hands on blocks is a deceptively potent and simple way to open the shoulders while training the upper back to broaden and the arms to externally rotate.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #balasana #childspose #subtlebody #discern #tapas #discipline
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If I don't know the truth then how can it make me free?
(Few poses offer the potential for liberation like Hanumanasana. It invites us into a big reality check on what's going on in our bodymind. The variation pictured is one of the ways I invite myself out of habit and into expansion in this pose. Bringing the back hip forward is what most people miss and the mind is so locked into the old pattern that it's challenging to get past it. But the rewards on the other side are too great to pass it up. As Jesus said knowing the truth makes us free. Our part lies in the knowing of it. Truth takes care of the rest. This applies in yoga poses and in life.)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #hanumanasana #monkeypose #thetruthshallmakeyoufree #jesus #atman #brahman #reality #mahamaya #grandillusion
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Only the invisible is indivisible. Just because the eyes can't see oneness that doesn't mean it's not there.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #sirsasanavariation #headstand #oneness #yoga #union #transcendduality #balance #equilibrium
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Meditation is spiritual nutrition that restores your soul.
(Adding isometric resistance into yoga posture is really another name for sthira/sukha. In our pigeon pose variations today we worked on drawing the legs in toward each other instead of letting them splay out which creates imbalance on the side of flexibility. Even where the hand is grasping the foot isometric resistance can be applied so muscles are engaged which stabilize the ankle knee and hip joints. While from the outside it looks and even feels like we're not going as deep, we're really going deeper into the fascia layer of tissue. As we move inward with the visible mind (i.e. body) we move deeper into the invisible body (i.e. consciousness).)
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga #dailylightwave #ekapadarajakapotasana #kingpigeonposevariation #dhyana #meditation
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You know you're making progress when a fork in the road is a source of adventure rather than anxiety.
Alison Wilburn
Lightwave Healing & Yoga
#dailylightwave #natarajasana #lordofthedancepose
