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4 years ago, Ashtanga Yoga Manila @ashtangayogamanila was born. I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to my students who have entrusted me with their practice and of course @rebelyogamanila for giving our community a hOMe. Though we don’t see each other in person, you guys made the community continue through our online classes! Forever grateful! I know someday we will all see each other in person again!
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One year in lockdown and quarantine and I bet we are still in our own processes of transition, release and surrender, yet in the midst of such intensity there is a reflection of hope amidst a sea of doubt and disbelief. We usually see in the world what we have cultivated within ourselves. Yoga teaches us to have faith in our own ability to change and grow, to know and evolve our own values and literally to become the change we want to see in the world. Accordingly what change we can believe in is a direct reflection of our own strength and grace.
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You come! ✌
Repost @sadhana.siargao
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Sadhana Siargao
We are excited to announce that we are finally resuming classes starting March 2nd! Patrick Santos will be teaching in Sadhana over the next few months and we are looking forward to seeing new and old faces in the shala!
Patrick was first introduced to yoga in 2006 while pursuing his Culinary Studies and fell in love with ashtanga yoga 7 years ago. He introduced Ashtanga Yoga in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Saudi Arabia and has taught in different parts of the Middle East. He currently resides in Manila, where he started Ashtanga Yoga Manila in 2017.
As a chef and an Ashtanga Yoga practitioner, Patrick hopes to unite his two passions: promoting healthy living through food and spiritual wholeness through the practice.
Patrick goes to Mysore, India every year for an extended stay to further enrich his studies at the Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute/ Sharath Yoga Center and was given the blessing to teach both the primary and intermediate series.
#sadhanasiargao #siargao #siargaoisland #ashtanga #yoga #yogi #yogamen #yogadudes #yogalove #yogainspiration #yogaeverydamnday #yogaformen #yogaforlife #boysofyoga #mensyoga #ashtangayoga #ashtangi #primaryseries #yogamanila #yogaph #yogaphilippines #grammerph #igersmanila #fit #fitspo #pinoygram #feeltheyogahigh #igyoga #instayoga #madaboutyoga (at Sadhana Siargao)
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Guru is the creator Brahma, Guru is the preserver Vishnu, Guru is the destroyer Shiva. Guru is directly the supreme spirit — I offer my salutations to this Guru.
Forever grateful to my Teacher, Sharathji. Thank you for guiding us through this path and through this method and thank you for entrusting me to share this wonderful method in my hometown.
Happy Guru Poornima
Photo taken during his first workshop here in Manila
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To the people and students who made this experimental class at @rebelyogamanila possible three years ago, thank you for every kind word, every smile, every gift, every gesture of gratitude, and every single time you attend my class, words cannot express how appreciative and thankful I am. You have taught me how to be a teacher and I am still learning continuously and endlessly with this process!
My yoga students often thank me whenever they finish their practice and leave the Mysore room and while I appreciate their gratitude, I often think that I should be the one thanking them. My students are honest and real and remind me of the good in the complicated world we live in.
Nothing feels better than seeing students growing, improving, changing and balancing. Again, I’m grateful to each and one of you.
Happy 3rd Birthday @ashtangayogamanila
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(at Ashtanga Yoga Manila)
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There is no easy way to say this but the reality is that the Ashtanga Yoga Method is really hard. The longer we practice the more we forget what a marathon the Primary Series really is. For total yoga beginners this can seem totally dreadful and defeating.
The Ashtanga Yoga Method is meant not to be easy on the first try. This is one of the lessons in the practice. Instead of making the method easy, the practice asks us to make our mind and thinking strong. If we accept our failures and learn to love ourselves anyway, then we are practicing a valuable skill.
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There are days when we feel super demotivated, uninspired and whine a lot in our daily practice but remembering why we practice is usally all we need to get us to actually do it, be it whatever reason we have.
And the next time we’re just about to hit the snooze button 20x in our phone alarms in the morning or feast on a buffet in the evening instead of going to practice we can remember the reasons and intentions why we really practice. Maybe it will help us to get on our mat and maybe it won’t but it’s worth a try, isn’t it?
Some days we need every trick in the book to get us to roll out that mat, or even go to the shala but we all know that we have never, ever regretted doing it. So what I can say if you need extra motivation, or even to trick yourself into practicing, on any particular day then do whatever it takes. ✌
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Every backbend has the potential to open our hearts, if we’re strong enough to let all the love and all the discomfort in. But if we’re only willing to look at what feels good and comfortable, then we close our best off to one of its most meaningful condition which is empathy. In order to open our hearts, we have to be okay with really feeling someone else’s discomfort, even if it means coming down from our own comfort zones.
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Giving back to the community where I started teaching! Happy to see some of my first students and new faces here at Yoga for Life! It’s been two years since I last taught this group!
Yoga for Life is a community of HIV advocates empowering people living with HIV and fellow advocates through the practice of Yoga.
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I came into this practice because it helped me heal and I came into to this practice roughly eight years ago as a broken person. I was struggling with a lot of things with myself, internally and externally, and had a harrowing relationship with myself. The rigid and rigorous structure of this method, showing up and facing your day to day challenges helped me become less rigid and structured with myself off the mat. I may say that I am very lucky with the teachers I have had over the years, they never hindered with my journey and were always excellent innate listeners. I may say that this practice leaves room for a lot of adjustments, so it can be adapted to the people who will be interested in this method.
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I remember Sharathji said in one of the conferences that every practice should contain at least some element of difficulty. If practice is too easy, the idea is that it won’t be able to teach us about the depths of ourselves. The elevation of yoga is truly the highest peak of human consciousness. In some sense it should be a little hard and present challenges that mirror the challenges of our lives. The yogi is a seeker of truth and the journey to the deepest truth demands strength, commitment and resolution from striving aspirants. Tapas is there to tell us that it is okay that our first attempt at a difficult arm balance is not a success. Tapas heartens us to try again, one more time or one thousand more times, to build the strength and learn the lesson our practice is trying to teach us. If we normally back away from hardship, Tapas is there to uplift us to rise up and meet hardship with a stronglove. Tapas is one of the most important tests along the spiritual path of yoga. Tapas teaches us a spiritual paradigm that change our response to hardship and struggle. By learning how to face those pains that lead to purification, of course not injury, we will learn how to lean in to the scary places in our lives. So, if our yoga practice is too comfortable, then we might benefit from challenging ourselves just a little. There are many forms of tapas we might choose from. Discipline is needed every single time that yoga asks us to change our lives. And truly, life transformation is where yoga has the power to be a change for the better of our lives.
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The yoga tradition teaches non-attachment, vairagya in Sanskrit, not so that we walk around in a state of emotional detachment devoid of expression, but instead so that we will know that our deepest sense of self exist outside the realm of things, goals and material success. By practicing releasing attachments we let go of our intense identification with the world of materiality and begin to relax and play with life in a state of joy.
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▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️ ▪️▪️▪️ ▪️▪️ And the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Annais Nin
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I wish I could’ve embraced you from conception
Wish that you would’ve fallen into my arms
slick from birth
unfazed by nature’s deception
These vessels we were given to-
obsolete
Unable to comprehend the complexity of our beings
Encased in roles that
though fleeting
there is no fleeing
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#nubodyandmind #badassmovement #yoga #yogaformen #yogapants #carltonjonescollection #wrappant #fallentriangle #mensyoga #poetry #pride #lovewins #threewishes (at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center)
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This is no ordinary love.
- Sade, 1992
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. -Marianne Williamson. ▫️
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Is it my goal? Is it your goal?
- Aaliyah, 1998 RIP
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✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ if someone
does not want me
it is not the end of the world.
But
if I do not want me
The world is nothing but endings.
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Ima mutherfuckin star, boy.
- The Weeknd, 2016
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So Hum.
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