Mukti
390 Davis Drive Newmarket, ON, Canada

During my yoga practice, when I'm on my own, I usually listen to trap. So, loud, usually raunchy Hip Hop music. I get a lot of "but, wait, isn't yoga supposed to be calm and quiet and relaxing? Shouldn't you be listening to something calm and quiet, then?" Nah. My yoga doesn't end, when I leave the studio. It's in everything. My life isn't usually quiet or calm. My mind DEFINITELY isn't always calm or very "yoga." The point isn't to be in the perfect yoga setting and hope th...at my mind follows suit. The POINT is, within the chaos and the color and the loudness that is my life and my mind, to find my Self. My breath, my connection. My Yoga. Harmony. I could be in the perfect yoga studio. Tall, white walls, soothing chanting in the background that I can hear but not too loudly. The perfect yoga teacher, with his perfect yoga playlist. If I'm not there to do the WORK, though - to set my intention and bring my focus onto my breath and my Self, I will never find my yoga. So. Stop relying on your external environment to do the work for you. It's all about YOU and what you put into your practice, no matter what that looks or sounds like. Bump that Quavo Huncho and don't you dare let anyone tell you that it's not "yoga" enough. If thas your yoga, thas your yoga.

#reikiyoga is a whole vibe. @artistryofhealing here clearing our space before our little full moon ritual this week. The perfect, safe space to allow whatever comes up to come up. A night of manifestations. I felt my ancestors heavy this week. I could SMELL Bangladesh while I was teaching. It was so interesting. I'm so grateful. ... Our next class is on Tuesday. You can sign up at www.mukti.yoga _ #reiki #yoga #torontoyoga #yogatoronto #toronto #newmarket #newmarketyoga #bradfordyoga #healing #manifestation #spirit #fullmooninpisces #weburnstuffinourclassessometimes

My physical practice has been becoming.. less strong. But my interactions with myself and other beings has shifted. So.. my Yoga has still been growing and strengthening. Even though I haven't been doing as many lunges as I used to. _ I'm noticing things about how I approach discomfort. It usually goes like this: I anticipate something uncomfortable happening, I do things that I think will make me feel that discomfort less intensely, then I think about what's happening and ...how I'm feeling, etc etc. It's almost always AFTER I run away and do something to soften the blow, that I sit with the discomfort I'm apparently so afraid of. It's always AFTER the challenging Yang sequence that we seem to settle into Yin and confront ourselves deeply and openly. _ I've been trying to switch it up lately. In my spiritual, mental, and emotional bodies, that looks like acknowledging when I'm anxious and considering it. Dealing with it. Before I try to make it feel less scary, because I honestly don't KNOW how uncomfortable things will actually be. Feel my feelings and take the steps I need to.. before I run to a spliff, before I put my energy in places and people I don't need or want, before I attack the people that I love. _ In my physical body, this looks like sitting in stillness before I create fire. Opening my body up before I try to get energy to flow through it. Settling into discomfort via Yin postures before I'm diving into any vinyasa. _ I'll be exploring this further in my class coming up on Wednesday. $5. You can find more information at www.mukti.yoga _ #yoga #meditation #toronto #torontoyoga #torontomeditation #mindfulness #self #newmarketmeditation #newmarket #newmarketyoga #bradfordyoga #aurorayoga #virtualyoga #onlineyogaclass #hathayoga #yinyoga #yinyang #confrontation #uncomfortable #breath #asana #goddessenergy #growth

"Who is the I that knows the bodily me, who has an image of myself and a sense of identity over time, who knows that I have propriate strivings? I know all these things, and what is more, I know that I know them. But who is it who has this perspectival grasp?" _ #AnilAnanthaswamy #theManWhoWasntThere #self #newmarketmeditation #newmarket #newmarketyoga #bradfordyoga #aurorayoga #yoga #meditation #toronto #torontoyoga #torontomeditation #mindfulness #contemplation #selfdiscovery #consciousness

Does your mom practice yoga with you? Mine neither. Fun fact: we opened the studio together and she still likes to practice at home without me _ I'm pushing her to Yoga with me today. Join us! With your mom. With your kids. Or even on your own - celebrating the strength our universal Mother has instilled in you. _... My class is still up today. For $5 you two can play around with movements that make me feel feminine and full of life. Nothing too crazy, just exploring some things. Register/pay at www.mukti.yoga and I'll send you a link to the class, which you can use all day today. _ #mothersday #mom #grandma #nanu #ammu #brownmoms #yogamoms #torontoyoga #yogatoronto #toronto #newmarket #newmarketyoga #bradfordyoga #aurorayoga #yoga #Mother #divinefeminine #kundaliniyoga #hathayoga

I've been struggling, friends. I can feel I'm in the middle of this transformation that's forcing me to reconsider the woman that I am. What that even means, what it looks like. I've questioned my relationship with my feminine power and, rather than nurturing it, I've been neglecting it. Even resenting it. For a number of reasons that I'll share in a video very soon. _ So. I've created a class that focuses on that. On acknowledging and creating the space for our Divine fem...inine energy so that we can use our power to its fullest. To those of you that have male bodies: you could use this just as much as I could. _ This Friday. $5 for access to the class all day. Register at www.mukti.yoga Talk to me about this is. #PauloCoelho #thewitchofportobello #yoga #torontoyoga #yogatoronto #toronto #newmarket #newmarketyoga #bradfordyoga #aurorayoga #onlineyoga #onlineyogaclass #kundalini #hatha #shakti #Kali #goddess #feminine #feminineenergy #balance #dontfuckingtellmetobealady