what makes you feel WELL?

Dear Yoga Family,

With covid numbers increasing around the US, social and political unrest climbing, and idiot-in-chief being the cartoon-like evil villain that he is - we gotta stop and ask ourselves: What kind of lifestyle do we want to build for ourselves for the months ahead, WITHIN the current limitations of our reality.

I want to ask you:

What does health and wellness mean to you?

Is it actually dependent on being able to buy, have, and go anywhere you please, at any moment in time?

Is it a number on a scale?

Is it having that mythological twin flame finally appear in your life?

is it an inner state of embodiment, inner peace AND power?

is it perhaps a clear mindedness? body agency? meaningful social connections?

is it vibrant colorful health-conscious meals? or all the chocolate and cookies you can eat?

is it having someone to commiserate with? or having someone to share the bright side with even in the darkness?

how can you access an inner feeling of ABUNDANCE and SACIETY in the midst of whatever life puts on your plate, without having to actually CONSUME more?

it it a sense of PURPOSE? is it a daily fight for what you believe is RIGHT?

is it going to bed every single night with zero pillow regrets, knowing that you put your all into making a difference in the life, health, and freedom of yourself and others?

what makes YOU feel abundant, whole, proud to be yourself,

and WELL???

I have no answers, only questions myself. LOTS of questions.

And since no actual answers will be coming at us through our screens any time soon (given that the media is in FULL-ON CIRCUS mode),

It's about time that we take Mother Earth, and Father Sky's hint to: BEGIN LOOKING WITHIN.

not for THE answers necessarily,

not for answers about aliens, or virus origins, 5G toxicity, or coup-de-etat plans ahead,

but for YOUR answers.

how can YOU build a life that makes YOU feel WELL.

time to get imagining, creating, connecting, designing.

Chronic Breath Holding & Screen Apnea

"Screen apnea is the temporary cessation of breath or shallow breathing while sitting in front of a screen, whether a computer, a mobile device, or a television."

​~ Business Insider ~​

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PAUSE.

Are you holding your breath right now?

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​Unconscious, or excessive mentally-focused screen time,
impacts your breathing patterns, nervous system and mental state.

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~ now ~

3 slow breaths

hold at the bottom of the inhale for 6-10 seconds,

and lengthen each exhale to 5-8 seconds.

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thank you for doing that,

your wellness and health truly makes a difference in all our lives.

we are all - very - interconnected.​

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​BE THE OBSERVER / NOT THE ABSORBER

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I'll tell you a secret...

"i’ll tell you a secret...
your light
is your darkness
all of your pain,
it crystallizes.

Cracks and holes:
they let the light in,
before you can shine
you are plunged in darkness
helping you to birth
a solar consciousness...

it’s up to you to awaken
it’s you who’s gonna die
when it’s your time to die
so why waste time living a lie?
step out of the illusion created in your mind
this reality is a hallucination to which we all have complied at some point in time
but now it’s time to decide..
to take back your power
give your insides a shower
rid your self from the filth of your habits negative relationships and desires
blast up through the deep dark dirt
recognize your worth
it is you who made it out after being cast deep into the dark earth
don’t let it keep you from becoming a flower
god is with you every moment every hour:
behind every loving glance
behind every glower
it is he who animates the space that you have become so comfortable in your ways

to diminish his creation to insignificant and minuscule labels such as “birds” “humans” “plants” “animals” “flowers” and “crustaceans”
these words separate and create a reality that i can no longer allow us to perpetuate. 

something has to be done. 
all is one. 
i’m speaking up. 
mother earth is the space holder.
the creatress through which our father the light the sun the energy of love may pass
and live actively through all in a sacred dance. 
so that she may behold his face
she transforms in to a lake
and in her reflection,
he sees his face. 
many forms she takes
a small human girl wanders down to the lake
captivated by her beauty she falls in and drowns
next day reborn
on his head a golden crown. 
to dance among the hidden
to play with things forbidden
forever shall we dance in and out of the illusion. 
until it becomes an unnecessary confusion
and god summons his spiritual warriors to awaken all children. 

free yourself from the illusion of separation. 
this body is the earthly instrument though which your true self revels in the beauty of your conscious Self realization. 
do you realize that you haven’t been living in your body?
but living in your mind, consumed by greed, fame, games, carelessness, guilt and running out of time? 
take responsibility for your vacancy
return to real reality
you are here to experience the life of a human be-ing. 
you are here to be. 
and that isn’t always pretty. 
sometimes it’s fucking ugly. 
and that’s okay too because like hot and cold exist as one on a spectrum of extremes, so too do ALL THINGS. 

relax in to your being and stop denying the parts of yourself you aren’t use to seeing!
it is all a part of the unfoldment of your being. 
honor it. honor your Self. 
it takes courage to see things. 
and i mean TRULY see things. 
remember you are immortal
life is eternal
energy can’t die, 
it can only transform..
this body of yours serves to in-form. 
and in-form we must serve
serve by informing and awakening each other from the dream of lack and limitation to which we have conformed…
that is a lie
earth is a full of abundance
limitation was never meant to last..
let it go. or you shall drag. 
if you aren’t constantly honestly observing, changing, forgiving and evolving..
then you aren’t moving and you are choosing to remain a slave to the illusion of YOUR MIND. 

no one traps you in suffering
your perspective… its smothering. 
if you shift your attitude in to one of gratitude
the magic of life will reveal itself to you. 
you don’t need to strive to be alive. 
this is just the gift LIFE gives to YOU.
the illusion you are in says you need to do what life, GOD ENERGY LOVE>>> UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, already does effortlessly for you!
life says I AM YOU AND YOU ARE ME, ACCEPT ME.
your mind says, fuck no, it CANT be that easy!
but it IS. 
EVERYTHING IIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS.
The same way your lungs breathe in the prana
the life force energy in and of air everywhere and nowhere
effortlessly
keeping your fire alight
you, my brother, my sister are meant to be alllllllllllllll right!
all right is filled with wrongs and rights..
darknesses and lights placed in right places and at right times. 
for you are this life force. 
you are not the body that fills itself with YOUR light. 
and you are not the mind that traps it’s body in fight or flight. 
release. 
recognize this fact. 
you ARE the air you breathe
and this air is a life force that permeates ALL things. 
infinite truths. 
infinite me’s and infinite you’s. 
i am just another you. 
and this is the reason i always say,
UBUNTU. 
i am because we are. 
i am you. 
from my heart,
to yours. "

• words by  @gaialogue