The greatest gift you can give your family and friends is "your" happiness.
Moon Flower
"I have decided to stick with love....hate is too great a burden to bear"
Martin Luther King
Movement flows through you, air flows through you but also thoughts flow through you.
By now you may realise you are not your thoughts.
The essence of you is love, peace, knowing, a connection to everything around you.
We are moving up your body to your heart, your thoracic spine, your chest, breasts, arms & hands.
You feel with your hands, you feel with your heart and the yoga classes are lovely to practice, very gentle and full of positive messages.
You may also have realised that the parts of your body with illness or disease are connected to one, some or all of the sections. It depends how long you have been out of balance.
Now it will be easier to understand which yoga, meditation, foods, herbs etc will help and support you.
*This includes serious diseases such as breast cancer. Yoga cannot cure you, but it can make you feel more, heal more, accept more and embrace life more..Yoga asana can also help with improving the immune system. Improving the health of all the systems of the body in fact.
Bring more mudras, more heart into your practice.
The power of mudras, the hand positions of yoga is not to be underestimated for changing your mind. Your hands are connected to how you feel which includes your sense of touch.
Read more in my August 2017
Singing, dancing, walking, stroking your dog, sitting in the sunshine. What comes up for you?
What do I do that hurts you?
Notice it is often thoughts of things that happened in the past that hurt and cause emotional pain.
This moment in time is beautiful, just you and your heart, your breath, nothing else needed.
Pay close attention to your feelings and promise the heart of you that you will return often to listen and learn.
I pass you this beautiful flower, keep her in your heart.
A moon flower, soft, delicate, healing.
Be grateful, be kind, be content.
"Moon Flowers are special flowers that reach out and touch something within you.
They speak to your heart, each seems to have it's own message.
Look out for them in your life.
Talking is not the best form of communication."
Julie Ivison
The Heart Flow Class is beautiful to practice as well as being a special class for the immune system
1/ Heart Flow - Beginner onwards
2/ Power is in your hands - Learn more about Ayurveda as well as Mudra
Short Yoga Sequences
1/ Chin Mudra Free Meditations
2/ Padma Mudra Free Meditations
Mudra Workshop & Yoga Class
Learn about the 5 energies of yoga and how to use them in your life.
Each is represented by a finger.
The Mudras of yoga, the hands gestures add so much to your yoga & meditation practice.
Practice the gestures in a chair - Everyone
Or learn specific asana to enhance them and follow me through a Beginner to Advanced Yoga Class
The forgiveness meditation is very difficult to practice but can change your life.
We hold onto so much pain and hurt in our hearts, we need to release it.
To be free, light and easy.
I must mention Louise Hays book "You Can Heal your Life."
I recommend reading it throughout the next couple of months.
Change how you feel, don't be a victim of your past experiences.
1/ The forgiveness meditation Strong Women
2/ Green Stone Meditation Free Meditations
3/ Padma Mudra yoga sequence Free Meditations
VATA DOSHA
Green
Air - May Newsletter
Yam pronounced Yummmmmmmmmm.
Touch
Musical Note F
Vyana Vayu
Physical focus - Chest, lungs, thoracic spine, shoulders, arms & hands
Follow your heart, change your mind.
Helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger...
I think you would really enjoy and learn so much from the book Mudras for Modern Life by Swami Saradananda. It's chapters correspond to the 7 sections of my course.
"to heal
you have to
get to the root
of the wound
and kiss is all the way up"
rupi kaur
To balance Vata Dosha May 2018
To open your heart is to feel a love not connected to a person but deep within you.
A love for all of life.
Namaste Julie ( My heart greets your heart )
Ready to move on?
Section 5 - Calm & Peace
The new moon in Aries was the time to begin the next section.
What made me decide was water...
I was reading about the positive qualities of copper water containers, recommended in Ayurveda.
Online I found a beautiful egg shaped copper water holder and it had a stopper set with turquoise.
I now have it on my dining table...too easy.
Turquoise is a stone for the throat chakra, blue is the next colour, the next section of the course, for sound and silence. For the teacher and wisdom. I'd chosen my next gift to myself.
I needed a prompt to move on because I "love'' practicing the heart classes.
What a special time it has been.
On Shivaratri, the exact New Moon morning, I clicked on my emails to join Swami Saradananda's zoom satsang and there was an email accepting Bird Song for publication.
It had been a year since I contacted 4 publishers and I had let it go. Thought it wasn't going to happen and it wasn't good enough.
It is very close to my heart, my wish to share yoga teachings in a modern way, share my life and inspire other women to live a happy and beautiful life.
It was also my birthday this month and I had a lovely holiday in the Blue Mountains staying at Wollemi Wilderness Cabins.
It's been a "lovely" 2 months or more.
But it is time to grow.
Change your world.
Change the world.
Everything begins with you.
Latest comments
04.03 | 08:03
Amazing news about your book Julie, am so excited to see Bird Song in print. Signed copy obviously! ππ»π
02.02 | 20:18
Thank you for your kindness in sharing. I'd love to participate in the online learning
05.12 | 19:45
Morning Julie, would you have a spot in todayβs 9.30 for a casual? Josephine
18.10 | 03:57
Hi Julie π,
Can I please go on the waitlist for Monday 8.15am class ?
Namaste ,
Mary x