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How Yoga Helped Me Understand and Battle My Anxiety & Eating Disorder

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I love teaching private classes. It really allows for me to address each student's specific needs and provide them with a practice that will meet them where they at in their lives. It might be a desire to enhance your energy, to quiet your mind, target a physical issue, boost cognition or even to just to drop into peace and stillness for 75 mins of your day..whatever the reason. Being open to doing the work to realign and rebalance the physical, emotional and mental bodies is the first step - and as soon as you realise you don't need to be in a big fancy studio to do it, it's even more empowering! I'm available to teach private and group Moon/Sun/Fire Hatha yoga, Yin and meditation around Dublin for the next little while...please get in touch if interested and we can chat(DM or contact via website in my bio!) 😊 🌟☄☄☄🙏🌠🌱 • • • #yoga #moon #hatha #sun #yin #meditation #fire #dublin #dublinyoga #discoverdublin #yogadublin #private #yogalove #practice #privateyoga #dublinireland

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I love teaching private classes. It really allows for me to address each student's specific needs and provide them with a practice that will meet them where they at in their lives. It might be a desire to enhance your energy, to quiet your mind, target a physical issue, boost cognition or even to just to drop into peace and stillness for 75 mins of your day..whatever the reason. Being open to doing the work to realign and rebalance the physical, emotional and mental bodies is the first step - and as soon as you realise you don't need to be in a big fancy studio to do it, it's even more empowering! I'm available to teach private and group Moon/Sun/Fire Hatha yoga, Yin and meditation around Dublin for the next little while...please get in touch if interested and we can chat(DM or contact via website in my bio!) 😊 🌟☄☄☄🙏🌠🌱 • • • #yoga #moon #hatha #sun #yin #meditation #fire #dublin #dublinyoga #discoverdublin #yogadublin #private #yogalove #practice #privateyoga #dublinireland

🌱 Nourish. Yo. Damn. Self. The 'food' which fuels/doesn't fuel our bodies & minds involves more than just what's on our plate. Our environment, our relationships (with ourselves & others), our spiritual practices & worldview..all of these are forms of nourishment too. One of my yoga & ayurveda teachers last year said 'you can eat all the fruit and veg you want, but if you can't deal with stressful situations/negative emotions in a healthy way, forget about feeling your best.' Through Yoga, Ayurveda (Indian yogic 'life science') & other holistic forms of nutrition, we can begin to notice subtle imbalances when they arise. 1 thing I realised through this is that optimum health looks very different for everyone. Another, more profound realisation was that for proper nutrition to be effective & sustainable, it requires an intrinsic sense of self-worth. This fact was something I resented at first. If we don't love our bodies or think them worthy enough of fueling with the things they need to function at their best (so we can do the things we love & reach higher states of clarity and understanding), we are naturally more inclined to unconsciously let our health slowly fall into decline. The nature of the human body is one of constant fluctuation, an exact mirror of the world around us, & learning to navigate these changes - environment, climate, diet, medication & stressors, to name a few - takes a level of self & body awareness that is not easy to get right at first. Yoga gave me the body awareness & the quietude of mind required to rationalise the crazy thoughts in my head & start actually listening to give my body what it needed. My practice serves me in many ways, & one way I hadn't expected is that it has made me more conscious & accepting of the foods my physical & mental health (& dosha) need to stay balanced. I'm sharing this as I start to explore holistic health coaching from an ayurvedic perspective alongside my yoga teachings...small steps. There's more on Ayurveda in the blog in my bio...stay tuned (or IN tune).🤓 🌱 • • #ayurveda #nutrition #iin #health #yoga #holistic #integrativenutrition #mentalhealth #mindbody #selfworth #ceylonsliders #nourish

❤ The heart is the first organ in the human body to form. In fact, everything else - every limb, every system, organ, hair and misplaced freckle on your skin grew from this cluster of beating gloop at the centre of your chest. Humans are essentially bunches of heart cells that got out of control. Considering the heart and it's symbolism - LOVE, connection, compassion, softness, LIFE and affection - it's crazy that we need to dive so deep at times to access it. That's why babies are literally just pure love - they haven't yet formed the layers and blocks around themselves to mask it all. It's also why peeling back these layers and opening the heart can be a huge amount of work - the beliefs, the self-conscious habits and behaviours - the FEARS of being vulnerable in a society that has taught us we need to be anything but to succeed. These things all stop us returning to that state of happiness, ease and lightness that's actually right here within us all. ❤❤❤ It's definitely possible, and I see a shift now - we are more aware than ever of the need to come back to this energetic and emotional centre. Yoga helps by giving us the space and tools to go easy and be gentle with ourselves as we do it - but the real challenge is to remember this place IN the moment. In the day to day rush of anger, LOVE, fear - intense desire or repulsion, trying to remember - coming back to that inner knowing, sense of connection, peace and sameness. The steady beat of the heart. Big breaths bring more oxygen and help to fuel it better. (That's why breathwork is so flippppping amazing). Do your heart a favour - slow down and listen to to it. 🙏❤ • (Old pic, same ❤) • • • #heart #anahata #yoga #soften #love #compassion #goeasy #mentalhealth #tantra #hatha #emotion #heartbeat #beat #one #weareone #yogalove #balasana #childspose #unalome #layers #offthemat #practice @thepracticebaliyoga

In all the craziness of the past few weeks, reassimilating and integrating and celebrating, it's only now that I've gotten time to really contemplate the sheer enormity of what 2018 was for me. Among many other things, it saw me finally opening and releasing an awful lot of stubborn habits and negative thought patterns. Opening, accepting and receiving. Seeing myself, hearing myself; being seen & heard & held, & doing so for others, too. Acknowledging the simplicity, and yet the beautiful intricacy of all things. Experiencing oneness and and acceptance - even with the uncomfortable parts. Knowing that those internal places we squirm to think about are almost always the best place to start working from, shining the light of awareness where it needs to go for healing to begin. I learned that it's ALL important. Every piece of you, of me, of everything. Every experience, difficulty and dream. Nothing is too big or too little. Nothing is insignificant. Loosening walls around hearts and pride and old ways of being is scary at first, but so relieving in the end. A new way of looking at the world and at our place within it is the reward - and the beautiful thing is that it doesn't stop here. 🙏🌞🌟 Thankful for all of the lessons learned and for every jedi who had a part to play in this journey, you know who you are.😚 🌞🌟✨ Onwards! • • #sunset #2018 #newyear #reflections #2019 #gratitude #love #tribe #universe #growth #yoga #srilanka #bali #kabalana #beach #practice #thepractice #hatha #yoga #tantra

Action without awareness is just as futile as awareness without action - to excel and evolve we must cultivate both in a sustainable and balanced manner. To me at the moment, this means that resolutions to change and become a 'better' version of you will only truly take root if we are prepared to do the gritty work to plant, water and nurture these seeds. Like any good relationship, be it with another human or with ourselves, we go through many waves of experiences and emotions, ups and downs and middlegrounds, and it's so important to have an anchor in yourself or your daily practices throughout it all. Otherwise it becomes too easy to get swept away. As they say; through thick and thin, "for rich or for poorer, in sickness and in health..." This comes inspired by my beautiful friends @doruaidh and @tiernal who got married last night on New Year's Eve and the pure dedication to one another to grow, evolve and nourish one another along their individual journeys was such a pleasure and inspiration to witness (and has been since I've known them😘👰🤵). I couldn't think of a better way to have welcomed in the start of a new cycle, along with the sankalpa (firm resolve) to plant some serious roots back home. ☘☘ Today is the first day of that new cycle. What seeds will you plant?? 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 🙏 • • • #nye #resolution #sankalpa #tantra #action #awareness #rajas #yoga #hatha #resolve #beach #waves #wedding #newyearsday #roots #seed #planting #cycle #yantra

One of the biggest things which signalled the beginnings of my struggles with anxiety was the inability to make even the simplest or seemingly unimportant of decisions. What to wear, what to say, how to stand, where to sit, how to speak, which curl was the one which made the rest look just a little TOO crazy, & let's not even get started on what to eat for dinner. Every time one of these seemingly simple and obvious questions arose in the natural course of daily life, it would leave me paralyzed and overwhelmed with what I've now come to label as FEAR. But not your run of the mill, fear of ghosts & haunted houses fear. This fear is clever - it can clearly see & present you with (for anyone with an imagination as vivid as mine) what you convince yourself are actual possibilities & realistic pending experiences. WHAT IF, I make a wrong choice. WHAT IF, I go right instead of left. WHAT IF, I miss this bus. All potential outcomes laid out for me to see. All realities an 'actual' possibility. All energy spent not on creating great feats of art or music, but consumed with WHAT TO PUT ON THIS SANDWICH. 😫 It takes a tremendous amount of will & awareness to face this FEAR & help it melt away back into the actual reality of the present moment (aka, the only thing that is actually ever 100% real & legit). It takes this acknowledgment of irrationality & FEAR time & time again to really ever even partially master it. It's only in the past 2.5 years I've learned to manage these destructive & paralyzing habits. I've used awareness to combat it on turbulent flights, at tense family gatherings, or during ridiculously large meals, but I feel that FEAR still hovers on the perimeter of the present moment. Because choices will always have to be made, and there will always be potential outcomes. It helps to have awareness of this, but whenever it happens I always feel that lean towards the tendency to overthink & surrender to overwhelm. The choice to succumb to it or to rationally sift through the scenarios & drop back into presence is the only thing that works. Get still, get real, make choices, & then stick with them. Here's to a 2019 full of choices. 🙏 • #nye #resolutions

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