Breathing Into Our Fears

In my Yoga offerings over the next month while the Sun is in the zodiac Scorpio (10/22-11/22), after recently moving from the zodiac Libra (9/21-1021), we will focus on the ways in which the Scorpio archetype connects us; balancing the kidney/urinary bladder meridians, overcoming fear and gaining wisdom, storing and distributing Chi, tapping into our inner strength and power, evolving through deep transformations, & rising from our deaths to be reborn. 

 

Our Kidneys store our Chi, or our life essence. Here this essence of our body can be converted into Kidney Chi, which is then used to help the kidneys control water. The kidneys send clear, healthy water upward to circulate in the body and used, turbid waters downward for elimination. The kidneys also govern utilization of water. Because blood and bones are so intimately connected to water, the kidneys are also responsible for their proper functioning. Determination is said to be stored in the kidneys, which are also directly connected to reproductive health and function. 

Disharmony here is suggested by gynecological problems, genital disorders, and problems in the kidneys, lungs, and throat. Examples may include impotence, frequent urination, and weakness in the lower limbs. Anxiety and fear may also occur. Too much fear can weaken the kidneys, but they can also be the source of deep wisdom. When the kidneys work well, we mature gracefully. 

 

Paired with the kidneys, the urinary bladder stores and excretes urine. If there are problems with the kidneys, this may show up in problems such as frequent urination, backaches, headaches, and inability to urinate, mental problems, and disease of the lower limbs.

One way we can help balance the kidneys and the urinary bladder, is to jumper cable either index finger and practice a 10-second breath count (inhale to the count of 4, pause for 1, exhale to the count of 4, pause for 1, & repeat). 

 

This mudra technique comes from a healing energy practice known as Jin Shin Jyutsu and is associated with the 4th depth, connecting us with the kidney and urinary bladder meridians. These meridians are responsible for the flow of our life force energy (Chi) and their function enables us to overcome the negative impacts of mental, emotional, and physical stagnation. 

Join me in practice this month for these weekly Yoga Love offerings where we will practice many ancient yogic and holistic healing techniques for easing through this next phase of our journey; 

Rise & Shine Yoga

Mondays & Fridays, 7-8:15am

148 S 4th Avenue

Beginning Yoga

Wednesdays, 5:30-6:45pm

150 S 4th Avenue

Yin Yoga

Sundays, 3:30-4:45pm

150 S 4th Avenue

And consider these upcoming monthly Yoga Therapy offerings;

Retrain Your Brain

Tuesday, 10/25/16, 7-8:30pm

150 S 4th Avenue

Women's Yoga for Healing

Monday, 10/31/16, 7-8:30pm 

148 S 4th Avenue 

Yoga for Stress & Anxiety

Tuesday, 11/8/16, 7-8:30pm

150 S 4th Avenue 

All classes offered at Tucson Yoga Studio in Downtown Tucson, 148 & 150 S 4th Avenue. Find more details at www.TucsonYoga.com 

Believe in Yourself - Step into Your Authentic Purpose

It's important to see yourself as the successful person you are striving to be. Don't wait for the future. Find that greatness in you now and project it into your attitude. When you do, you will have brought the future into the moment. 

If you keep struggling in business and act like a novice, others will treat you as such. Take attitude that allows others to know you believe and know what you're doing, and they'll believe too. When you love what you do, you enjoy what you do, and others are always attracted to love and joy. This attracts support from others and helps you to keep going. 

To find your purpose take time - please don't be in a rush - you can't make it happen; it must unfold. Don't hold on to what wants to go; let it go. Life is taking you someplace you need to be. Stop fighting the process and surrender to your path. See everything as a gift and a chance to get stronger. Fear is nothing but a place you feel there is no love. Go there and bring love with you. You are the torch that brings the light. 

When you can create your dream in the dark, not just in the light, when you can put it together with what you have, instead of the perfect parts, you will be a master creator. To be a master of anything you must be able to do it with the bare essentials, anyone can do it if everything is there, perfect and abundant. 

You must be able to keep going when things don't fall into place, when you get criticized for what you believe in, or when the world doesn't recognize your talent or your truth. 

Are you there for YOU? Do you support YOURSELF?   

I invite you to take some time to reflect on what arises for your over this weekend, as the Sun is in Freedom-loving Aquarius and the Moon continues to wane from Truth-seeking Libra into Surrender-inspiring Scorpio. These astrological energetic combinations can prove to be deep, intense, immensely healing, and expansive... Just remember; if we believe in ourselves, we can attain our soul's purpose and gain the strength and confidence to birth our unique gifts forth into the world! 

May you become through practice all that you are in potential. Peace, love and light. Namaste. 

Women's Yoga for Healing ✨New Moon Offering✨MONDAY, 11/9/15, 7-8:30pm 148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

~ Women's Yoga for Healing ~

✨ New Moon Offering ✨

MONDAY, 11/9/15, 7-8:30pm

148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga 

www.TucsonYoga.com

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A New Moon happens once a month when the Sun and Moon touch each other. It’s a great time for new beginnings of any sort.  It’s also the perfect time to set intentions for ourselves. Putting our intentions out there can sometimes manifest into bigger and better things. Sometimes when we ask – we will receive within 6 months time, and at the time of the Full Moon, we can really gauge and assess whether or not what we started was beneficial for us.  Even if it doesn’t go the way we planned, the process itself can be beneficial so we mustn't don’t let fear of the end result deter us. 

The upcoming New Moon is meeting up with the Sun in the sign of Scorpio, offering up some deeply transformative energy which can be massively evolving as we have been focusing our work inward on what's holding us back in any way from stepping into our highest potential. 

For this New Moon offering we will take a journey into the depths of our souls deepest wounds and karmic ties...we have the power to expand into our divine feminine potential at this time - come, join me on this incredible adventure!!!

During our practice we will invoke Bhuvaneshwari, the Goddess of infinite space, she whose body is the world. I'd like to give you a little introduction to this Divine Goddess so that you each can fully connect with her embrace during our practice together this Monday, 11/9/15, 7-8:30pm at Tucson Yoga - 148 S 4th Avenue. 

Bhuvaneshwari is both earth mother and sky mother. She is not just one-half of the mythological dualism that equates spirit to masculine and matter with feminine. She is all; nondual. She is the source of whatever emerges from the earth. She is not only the space that extends outward and up, she's also the space within, the space that extends downward into the depths of the earth and the depths of the heart. 

"Vast as the universe is the tiny space within the heart. The heavens and earth are there, and the sun and moon and stars. Fire and lightening and wind are there, and all that now exists, and all that is not." 

Bhuvaneshwari is shunya - the void. But she is also described as purna - or fullness. Just as all numbers are potentially present in zero, all that could possibly exist is potential in the void. Shunya is empty yet full. Akasha is space between that has no beginning or end, which contains all potentiality. Everything begins and ends in it. 

Though Bhuvaneshwari IS the source of matter, though she IS the matrix, though she IS the goddess as Maya - the cosmic measurer who deludes and traps us into seeing matter as separate from spirit - she IS also a portal back into nonduality. 

The madhya - the center - is the gap between one activity and another. Like the still point where a pendulum stops before gathering energy to swing again, the madhya is an empty space pregnant with power. You find the madhya in the tiny pause between one breath and another. You find it in a mind that pauses between thoughts. Bhuvaneshwari is the "breath inside the breath," - and in time, that nearly invisible, hidden space between the breaths can open, imploding inward, expanding into a spaciousness that is infinite - as large as you are able to conceive, and even larger. You find the Goddess Bhuvaneshwari here, more intimate than your breath.