Feeling and Non-Stealing

Hello, everyone, and welcome. Today, we're continuing our journey of exploring the Pancha claysha, the five clasas are meant to be the obstacles in our mind or what breeds discomfort and difficulty in our lives, along with the panca Yamas, the five Yamas, and how the Yamas are the antidotes to some of our, afflictions. So today, coming out of our exploration of Asmita or ego comes Raga, and Raga can be translated to attachment. And even attachment to pleasure, we can say. And so, you know, sometimes we think like, well, what's wrong with that, why, what's wrong with wanting to feel joy and wanting to feel happiness and wanting to feel pleasure. Well, the thing is is that we can get trapped of only wanting to gather things around us that we think are gonna make us happy, but it's never enough. And so it does end up breeding suffering.

Or if that thing is taken away, then we're constantly left with craving and wanting and desire. So it blends beautifully with the antidote to attachment, which is non stealing or the practice of what's called a data. And so it may not be literally that we're going and we're stealing something, but, it through this lens of, it not breeding more suffering in our lives is that you know, we can observe about how we're always wanting, maybe something that somebody else has, or comparing ourselves, or always calling coming from a place of feeling not enough, which is what the ego tends to do that builds up this fantasy persona that doesn't really exist that finally maybe we'll be worthy if we have this thing that we don't have. So we're always wanting. So today's practice is gonna focus on a big hip opening practice.

The hips are meant to be the storehouse for our emotions and therefore our desires and our cravings. And, how we can really be in the world through this experience of desiring happiness, but without our attachment or it being dependent on external sources. So let's go ahead and sit up nice and tall. And take your hands to your hearts. I always love to create a little heat, within the hand, symbolic of our tapas, or our disciplines, just to become more self aware through our practice, And for today, make that Lotus Mudra so the thumbs and pinkies can come together.

It's rooted in the mud of worldly existence, but Within it, the soul is free. I'm beginning to take a few breaths and reading nice and deep like it is the most exquisite flower. Usually, we see a beautiful flower and what do we wanna do? We wanna pick it. We wanna own it. But we just let it be appreciating it and appreciating ourselves for who we are and what we have.

Oh, then we're gonna take a deep breath in together here. As we chant the sound of ohm, which is everything in the universe already within us once we experience that wholeness. It take a deep breath in. Even holding the breath in, you wanna hold on to those precious moments, but then letting them go as you exhale out through the mouth. You're gonna place your hands onto the knees.

And if it's uncomfortable to be on your padding, you can move it out to the side. And then we're gonna start with a few big wide. These are called sufi circles. As you reach the chest forward as you breathe in, and then breathe out. It's a water element.

It's deep there inside of the hips. As we inhale forward, and then exhale back. I'm feeling like the hips are rooting down into those earthly realms and our material possessions and connections. Definitely to feel safety, but also know what ends up trapping us. And then take it in the other direction, big, wide circles.

Allowing the head go so that you are actually enjoying movement, the body loves to move. And then as you come on up through center, you can take a deep breath and open up through the arms. This is called breath of joy as you exhale wrap the arms around yourself. Again, like that, breathing in. You can take the left arm on top.

One more time to breathe in opening up, take your left arm on top, and then pause there in this big hug. All that we hold dear. I'm gonna inhale the arms up to the sky and take a twist over to the right side. You can sit up nice and tall as you breathe in, and then breathe out to twist, looking back behind you. You can extend the left leg out in front of you, and then sway the right arm up and over your head. Can take a little twist.

And then circle the right hand to the floor behind you so that you can lift yourself up out of all of those attachments. Nice and free in the midst of it. And then circle down and change the crossing of your legs. Inhaling the arms forward. Exhaling back. Take a deep breath in, open up through the arms.

As you exhale wrap the arms, give yourself a big hug. Again, inhale, freeing everything out. And then gather back in one more time a big practice of letting go. And then take your right arm up and over the left as you breathe in, reach your arms up over. You can even grab ahold of the elbows to open up through the chest. And then take a twist over to the right. So your right fingertips are to the floor behind you, your left hand, on top of the knee, as you take a few twists from the naval looking back.

Inhale to sit up tall, and exhale to look past the right hand. And then it's nice to extend the left leg out and in front of you so that you can reach your right arm up and over And again, it can be this reaching and longing. Things that we desire, but without being hooked or attached. Take your right hand to the floor behind you and then rise up for your stargazer. A big breath in.

Let me release your hips down, and then change the crossing of your legs. It's left shin that's gonna or the right shin that's gonna come on top. And then inhale the arms up to the sky. You grab ahold of your elbows as you lean back, and then take your twist over to the left, to the right hand, to the left knee, sitting up nice and tall breathing in, and then actively breathe out. Inhale. You can untwist a little bit, and then exhale to ring out.

Extend the right leg out in front of you. And then sway the left arm up and over, still rooting down into the earth. But extending up. Towards your toes, if you peek out underneath that left upper arm, and then circle the hand to the floor behind you, and lift up and out. Really ease your hips down, and then come on forward towards the top of the mat.

You'll come onto your hands and your knees. Spread the hands nice and wide as you breathe in, drop the belly to breathe in to look up. Grip your fingertips into the mat. So it's really like a good latch or in the earth as you lift the chest up, and then tuck your toes under as you lengthen the legs into downward dog. You can pedal out the feet and and moving nice and soft there through the hips so that you enjoy your practice, for sure.

Extending back and then roll forward into your plank pose as you breathe in. Then your hips to your heels or your child's pose as you breathe out and coming here anytime that you need a moment. And then from there, you're gonna rise up onto the shins, that same feeling as you breathe in. As you breathe out, wrap your arms into yourself, just holding on, inhale to open up, and then exhale in. Arise up one more time.

And pause, and then you're gonna step the right foot out to the side. So the right heel is in alignment with the left knee. And you can take your hands to a prayer or even that load is as you take a little twist over to the right and then open up the arms so that one hand is touching the earth, and then one is nice and free. You're welcome to stay here or extend the right leg a little bit longer out to the side. So this is Padigasana or gate pose.

Circle the arm around you, and then take your left hand to the ground, your right hand to the right hip, and then the transition can be a little shaky as you extend the right leg back behind you. And then peel the right arm up to the sky. You're welcome to lift the right leg up. And then as you circle the right hand down, lift the right leg up a little higher, And then you're gonna take the right knee towards the outer right arm and then step to the outside of the right foot. Tuck your back toes under.

You can turn the right toes out a little bit as you come onto the fingertips, dropping the hips down as you breathe in. And then with your blocks out and in front of you, it's always nice to again bring some ease or what's called succumb into our practice. And then you can begin to lengthen out. Through that right leg as you take a little bow. Reband the right knee.

Tuck the toes under. It's always nice to take a big twist, expanding outward. And then circle the hands down. It blocks over to the side as you step back into your downward dog. Roll out into your plank pose as you breathe in.

Child's pose as you breathe out, rise up onto the shins, opening up as you breathe in, and then gather everything back in towards yourself. Free it up, giving it away, and then exhale dive in. One more time, big breath in. Your big breath out. Rising up, you can grab ahold of the elbows again to open up through the chest, and then it's the left foot that's in alignment with the right knee leaning into the inside of the left knee as you press the pelvis forward a little bit and breathe in.

And then you could open up the arms, kind of like a little side mini extended side angle. Your right arm can come up and over your head. You can lengthen through the toes. And then circle the right hand down, make your transition into your supported side plank, really rooted in the earth here, but nice and free. Then you can pick up the top leg, circle the left arm to the ground, and then take the knee wide out towards the upper elbow, and then take a big step forward.

Tucking the back toes under and your blocks, turn the toes out. So it's a wider lunge, and then lengthen through the leg. You can even take it a couple times. Loosen up through the hip joint. And then you're gonna re band into the front knee and step back into your downward facing dog.

Let's roll out plank pose as you breathe in and then lowering all the way down. I'm rising up for a cobra and even see if you can press down through the tops of the feet and then let go of the hands. Going letting go of our attachments. And then press the hands down as you come back into your downward dog. And then you're gonna inhale the right leg high to the sky.

As you exhale see, if you can move the right knee towards the left elbow, inhaling it up. And then, wide out towards the right leg again, one more time up and back. Step forward between your hands and then inhale the right arm up for a moment, breathing in. You're gonna straighten through the right leg. Always grab your blocks as you need, and then parallel the toes so that you're in prosarita, Patatanasana, roll to the outer edges of the feet, and then bend a little bit into the left knee.

And into the right knee. A little bit from side to side. With your left hand center, peel the right arm up, and then wrap the arms around yourself if you inhale to rise up. Extending the arms up to the sky, turn your toes and your heels out, and then sink down into a goddess. So again, you're in your legs.

You can twist a little bit here from side to side. And then take your right forearm to the right shin into your extended side angle. So you do have to really root back through that left heel, and the tailbone hooks in towards the pubis lifting. As you stretch up and over. Let me take one more big breath in.

And then circle the hands back down onto the inside of the right foot. Sync the hips down as you breathe in. Look up as you exhale step back into downward facing dog. The soft knees really allow you to press out through the legs as you reach forward through the chest and then lower yourself down to the earth. Point your toes so that you can lift up, let go of the ground for a moment, and then back up into your downward facing dog. As you inhale, extend the left leg up and high, as you exhale, go for that little tap or in the direction of the right elbow, inhale three legged dog with the left leg high, and then tap it y to the outside of the left elbow.

All the way up and back as you breathe in, step forward between your hands and then free up the left arm. As you exhale lengthen through the left leg and then parallel the toes, bending a little bit through the right knee, through the left knee and your prasarita, sinking down into the legs to the earth, and then begin to extend up with the left arm, right hand down, wrap the arm underneath, grabbing the hold of your ribs, everything that we're attached to. Arms up to the sky, and then turn the toes out sinking back down. There's little twist so that we can free up the spine and the hips. And then from here, take your left forearm to the top of the left thigh and begin to turn the left toes all the way out extending back through the right heel.

And reach forward. You want to keep those heels rooted into the ground, drawing up from the earth, but then giving it away. I'm taking a big breath in. And then circle the hands to the inside of those left. Toast again if you take a inhale, and then you're gonna shift the weight into the hands even. It might be a good time to reach for your blocks.

So that you can step the right foot to the outside of the right hand or blocks, and then begin to send the hips down. So just checking in with your knees and with your hips, maybe blocks even underneath the hips as you sink down into the earth, into all those sensations. And then from here, you're gonna press into the feet and allow yourself to rise all the way up. Your hands and your lotus flowers to heal your feet together, and then your arms by your sides. Dend your knees.

When we're coming into our Utkatasana, definitely, in our earthly reality, but then extending up anytime you can just if this feels nice, it always does for me to remember. And then exhale to fold forward. You can breathe in to look up. You're welcome to step back or jump back through your vinyasa or straight into downward facing dog. As you inhale, you can roll forward into your plank pose and lower down.

I like to play with letting go of the ground in my back bends because more doesn't always mean better. And then come on up onto your hands and knees and into your downward dog. We're gonna inhale the right leg up, follow that same pattern as you inhale to open up through the right arm, parallel the toes, With your right hand center, it's your left arm up, wrapping the arms around you as you rise up, where you're two with the right leg out, left toes in, tip backwards as you breathe in for your peaceful warrior, and then lengthen through the front leg for your triangle pose, sliding your hand to your shin, or again, a block. Definitely rooted in the feet, but free as you extend upwards. Take your left arm behind you so that you're rolling open through the chest, bend through the front knee.

And then you can begin to make your way forward into your ardha chandrasana, lifting the left leg up. Maybe even reaching back for the top of your left foot for full moon or Chapasana And then we're letting it go with the arms freeing back behind you. Take your feet together, growing your lotus, folding forward, Stepping or jumping back through the vinyasa, we're straight into downward dog. As you inhale extend the left leg high and step forward. Twisting open to the left, parallel the toes, left hand center, right arm up, rising up, and then warrior two, left leg outright toes in, peaceful warrior as you breathe in to straighten through the front leg again, and then reaching forward.

Plant your hand onto your block, sink into the earth, into that mud, and then begin to rise up. With the right arm reaching up to the sky, and again open and detached. We can be in the world, but free. Take your right arm behind you, bend a little bit into the left knee, and then it's your artichandrasana, either with a block or finding the ground as you externally rotate through the right hip. Maybe you'll bend through the knee to reach back for the top of the foot, like our lunar nature that's always changing, twisting the chest open towards the sky, and then letting it go.

Wing your arms by your side. Got your feet together. Your arms up as you rise all the way up, and then reaching your arms by your side. So we're gonna make our way into tree pose Sometimes it's even nice having a block out by the side when you switch the weight into your left foot and externally rotate through the right heel. To the right hip.

And then seeing if you can lift your foot up maybe to your shin, maybe it's up to your upper thigh. We don't get attached to externals. Or how much we have. We lose what's already there. Your hands can come back into Padma or Lotus. And then begin to reach your arms up.

As your arms come out to the side, you can see if you can take a hold of your big right toe in yogi toe lock and lift the knee up. It can just be halfway or you can play with extending the right, like, out to the side, utitas, the b, and then turn your gaze to the other side as we're unattached. Yes. And then let the leg go. You're gonna wing your arms by your side. And then from here, take your hands to the ground.

You're gonna step back with your right leg. And then we're gonna make it a big transition. You're gonna walk all the way. To the back of your mat, bend deeply into the right knee towards Skandasana. You can take your hands to your hearts and prayer.

You can open the arms or take a half bind. And then we're gonna radically change directions. You're gonna move to the back of the mat, and then turn the right toes out, and you're gonna come to the outer edge of the left foot. Take your right arm up to the sky. So it's preparing for side plank.

Can take a moment and dip your hip down, and then press into the right foot to float the left hip up and up to the sky. And then anything you'd like to do here with your side plank, you're welcome to take the big toe again to reach the leg out, and then drop the right foot to the floor behind you arching back. Release your hips back to the ground, and then you can take a little help with your sitting bones back towards the center of the mat, hug your knees in. Everything, everyone we hold dear, but I think it's Maya who said that love sets us free. So with your shins parallel towards the ground lifting the chest, and then offer it all up.

Letting go into your Nava sin. Yes. And then with the fingertips down to the ground, and your hips coming forward a little bit, that little play into our halasana, and then rocking all the way back up into uttanasana. Rise up to stand, the arms by your side, again, in a mountain, kind of embodying that spirit of simply being already part of the whole universe. So Not constantly in a state of craving for something else. I externally rotate out through the left leg.

If the block helped, you can take your toes up higher or maybe to the shin, find the elongation through the low spine. Maybe your foot will come higher or not. You can extend the arms up. You can stay here or open the arms. Maybe taking the big toe for your yogi toe lock and Utitaosta b.

Out to the side, right arm can lift, like these beautiful orange trees, just offering themselves up, and then dropping, releasing the hands down. Take your hands down, and this way we're gonna extend the left leg back. Turn the right toes parallel and sink deep into the left hip. Skandasana hands there to the center of the heart are bursting open, and then twisting all the way to the back of the mat. Walk the left toes to the outer edge, come to the outer edge of the right foot and plant the right hand, lift the left arm, sink down for a moment, and then rise back up to either stay or grab ahold of your big left toe to stretch up and let go.

Before you release your hips down and take another little hop with the sit bones to the inside. Center of the mat, hug yourself tight. Offer it up. Fingertips to the ground one more. Halasana rock, and then up into your utkatasana.

Stinking down here for a big breath in. And then fold forward as you breathe out. Take a deep breath in, plant the hands. You can step back plank, where you can jump Chaturanga, or simply walk into your downward facing dog, shaking out through the hips, finding that moment to reconnect. Again, And then when you're ready, it's your right leg back up and into the sky.

You're gonna step forward this time for a warrior one. The arms are gonna come on up to the sky. Parallel your toes one more time, and then you're gonna take a twist all the way over to the left. So bend the left knee, take your right hand to the outer edge of your left shin. And your left hand can come behind the back so that your spiraling inside out and upside down. Taking that big twist. And then from here, you're gonna take more walk to the top of the mat.

You're gonna take a hold of a block with your left hand, and find a revolved r dachshundrasana's. One more big twist. The right arm up to the sky, you can reach for the back foot. To press open through the chest. And then it's kind of that same shape, but you're gonna do it all the way out to the side and kind of floating.

So this is called baby grasshopper. You're gonna reach for your big left toe with the right hand. And then see if you can take the leg out to the side, and hover in a baby grasshopper this is called. And from there releasing down to the ground, you can extend your left leg out in front of you, and then reach for the big right toe with the left hand, extending the leg forward, and the right arm back. And bend a little bit through the left knee to press into the sitting bones and roll open through the right hand.

And then maybe lifting the left leg, finding your center as you reach out in all directions. Give a hug of the knees. Back in towards the chest. This time hands to the floor behind you, feet in front of you as you float the hips up, breathing in. And exhale.

Your lion's breath. Your feet can rock up and over your head, and then rock all the way over. This time, with your hands to the ground. You can take a moment in Malasana again, in squat pose, or crow pose. Always listening to the body.

You can lift up one foot and then through the other one, looking forward, and then stepping back or jumping or walking. Letting it go into the breath, which is at the heart of our vinyasa, being in something completely and then letting it go. It's your left leg to the sky as you step forward. Your warrior one as you root down to rise up. Parallel the toes for a moment, bend through the right knee as you wrap the right arm behind you and reach for the outer edge of the right shin with the left hand and allow the spine to dangle.

You can bend into both knees. And then you'll spin to the top of the mat reaching for your block because you lift the right leg parallel towards the earth. And then that deep twist, this is my least favorite Asana that you can begin to explore even the other side, which is a version we'll get into. May be reaching for the top of the foot as you lift up through the chest. And then here we go, as you take your knee behind you, reach a hold of your big toe.

That's your right toe with the left hand, and then you're hovering over the ground for your baby grasshopper, keeping the shoulders lifted, and then release down. Reaching for the outer edge of your left foot with the right hand. And then again, you can put a little bend into the knee extending back. With the left hand, but press into the sitting bones. So as you lean back, maybe you can pick up the foot, and every part is kinda letting go of the attachments.

One more breath in, and then hug your knees in towards your chest. Hands behind you, you lift the hips, shake out through the hips, exhale through the mouth, and then release your hips down. So This pose, kind of our peak pose for today is called Ashtivak Rasana. And again, it's a little bit of a advanced pose, but again, all of the newer poses are just there to challenge us. Because there's so many things along the way that we can do.

Sometimes we feel like, well, I can't do it, and it brings up all of our attachments. You know, we want something in the moment. So Let's check it out. We've been sequencing for it pretty much from the beginning so that the hips are open, we're seated on the ground. So you can begin to play a little bit with the right foot into your hand and even bending and straightening. You do want your blocks nearby.

Getting into the hip. And then from here, you're gonna take your right leg and actually first make sure you have your blocks near you. Need them. And the story of Ash Duvok, Oshvok is a big one. About the father's jealousy. Right? All the great myths tell us these seen stories. And then from here with your hands onto the blocks, underneath your shoulders, you can play with hooking the ankles around each other.

I'm gonna see how this goes. And then you wanna see if you can begin to lift up as you breathe out, and then straighten the legs on the back of the arm, and then take that same little dip. It means crooked in eight places. And then you're gonna fall and let it go. And then we'll see what it's like on the other side.

For me, even I have lots of different things in the different parts of my body, and I I grasp and I long for, like, things I could do in the past or looking at photos of other people that's all a part of learning to actually experience what we do in the moment. And the body is metaphor, I think, is so powerful. So check out your left leg coming behind the arm and then finding your hands, and maybe you just play around here. Can hook your ankles and then shift the way into the block and see if you can lift yourself up. That side's not as easy. And then take a little bend of the elbows before letting it go. All to keep us humble and free.

So swing your legs out and in front of you. Cross your ankles and make your way into a child's pose as you breathe out, allowing your head to release to the earth. Your knees can open up a little bit. Into the simplest of shapes, receive what's here. And then coming up onto your hands and your knees, make sure that you have a blanket or you have blocks as we set up for pigeon pose, our last big hip opener.

Of the day. So it's nice to have it underneath the left hip and the right one. And then you can breathe in to lift the chest. And kind of like the load as you can go back down a couple times like that, rolling up through the spine as you breathe in. And then breathing out as you fall forward. One more time to come up.

You can even take your blocks to take it into a bigger backbend. And maybe reaching back for the top of the left foot, and lifting and opening through the chest. And then release your left leg. As you come forward. Allowing your head to release to the earth to a block to your forearms.

And you'll take a few deep breaths here. Again, finding that comfort back into the things that bring us joy. I've been knowing all things are impermanent like that flower. It rise on up. And step back. You can take your knees down and then send the left shin parallel towards the top of the mat flexing through the foot a little so that there's stability, as well as mobility.

There's a little boundary in the hips and the legs. You can reach for your blocks and sit up nice and tall so that it's a backbend. And a couple times to undulate through the spine, inhaling to roll up and then back down. One more time to rise on up, and then you can stay in this kind of deep cobra variation or reach back for the top of the foot. Internally rotate the right leg maybe extending the left arm up.

We're staying as you were with both hands down on your way back to the earth. As we appreciate the things we already have and who we are. And then you're beginning to rise on up. This time, shift the weight into the left hip and take the right leg out in in front of you. We'll end with the soles of the feet together.

And again, I'm a big fan of as many blogs, bolsters, or anything that you have to be able to make the practice. Meet you instead of needing to be anywhere else. Your forearms can come onto the thighs as you stretch the chest forward. Lifting the earth to meet your head. And then you can every time you exhale gently, root down a little bit more, and again, any little movements, As you inhale, you can rise on up.

Extend the legs out wide. Sitting on something allows you to hinge forward at the hip crease. Blocks, whatever it is that you need. Rise on up. Keeping the right leg long, put a little bend into the left knee, bring your sting up out of the earth again as you breathe in. Over to the other side.

And then release your hips down. Draw the legs in towards each other and prepare for your shavasana blankets underneath the knees. And settling back down into The earth allowing gravity to pull you down into your material reality. This is even where spirit lives. Everything in nature that we're already a part of.

The more honest aspect of who we are. Mhmm. We don't need anything to lift us up. Make us better. Feel the value of what's so unique about who we are. So take the next couple minutes resting.

And pieces when we finally don't desire and crave anything. If yourself continually over to this rest when we're not running around, I'm trying to gain more. And gently begin to bring your awareness back into the natural rhythm of the breath. I'm in the shape of completely letting go. We have all possessions. And then move your fingers and your toes to all of the senses that help us connect to life.

And bend your knees, draw them in towards your chest, even towards a little happy baby, content. Take the soles of the feet together as you exhale, lift your head up a little bit, and then roll on up to sit. As we end our practice. I'm sitting up again nice and tall, taking even moments of meditation throughout the day. Pause being in a moment in the present to receive.

The beauty that's all around us and And see, yeah, we can give some of it back. I'll join your hands to your hearts and prayer will end with chanting the sound of om together three times. This time, extend your arms as the sound of everything within you. Slide the hands of the third eye. And with bowing down and honoring one another.

Thank you everyone for joining me, and I'll see you next time.