yoga off the mat: living ritual

Yoga off the mat is everything you do in your life. It’s not just hatha yoga. It’s a holistic approach to all things in surrender to life the way it is presenting to us right now.

yoga off the mat: living ritual. I call it environmental yoga.

Wherever I find myself dictates what will be done, said, eaten etc.

It is part of living in surrender. It is tantra.

Incorporate therapeutics into your day.

Let every moment be a healing one.

I take this seriously. I do yoga everywhere. That includes squats and half sun salutations and standing backbends EVERYWHERE (grocery store lines, grocery store aisles, public bathrooms etc).

Yeah, in public too. This is stimming that heals in profound ways. If I didn’t do it I couldn’t be in the world, this is true too. The thing is EVERYONE can move their body way more than they do if they take advantage of every time they move.

If I drop something I turn it picking it up into a yoga stretch … this is literally how I keep fit in a reality where I’m often in bed fighting these infections.

If I didn’t move every chance I get and make it count I wouldn’t be moving at all anymore.

Chronic illness is shocking and beyond belief. Most people (and more tragically, the medical establishment) have no clue what being inert and horizontal for years at a time can do to a body. I was bedridden for 5 years and totally atrophied.

I am still coming back a decade later. This is because of how the biofilms took over when I couldn’t move at all (due to the drug injuries) it’s taking me years to rehab. I am, undoubtedly still rehabbing…it’s not something that has to happen. We can help our young people NOT TAKE PSYCH DRUGS.

Yoga off the mat is everything you do in your life. It’s not just hatha yoga. It’s a holistic approach to all things in surrender to life the way it is presenting to us right now.

yoga off the mat:

• What does it mean to heal?
• Yoga tips for challenged nervous systems
• Intro to Ayurveda (for chronic illness, psych drug withdrawal, TD)
• Coping with Pain and Psychotropic Drug Withdrawal
• What if grief is the natural order of things, a way of loving life anyway?
• Living well while being sick

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