Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 9:22AM | robin 
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A pose is just the life force concentrating on its next move... Held steady within the vessel body, our minds are free form as time becomes unified without limit or boundary.
© 2012 Yoga Robin®
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 10:19PM | robin
Stop what you are doing now, no matter what it is, and for 15 minutes do nothing but close your eyes and breathe deeply. Try to breathe using ujjayi breath used in Ashtanga yoga or Pranayama meditation.
Make sure that you don't cheat yourself on your inhale or your exhale. Make them equal in length. Try 5 second inhales and 5 second exhales all through your nose, breathing through the back of your throat.
This breath is like an ocean with waves ebbing and flowing slowly. With your eyes closed you can even imagine waves moving to the rhythm of your breath as you look with the eyes of your soul.
While working a busy day, living a stressful moment at home, or feeling anxiously happy, this will be like transporting yourself to the beach...
You will be releasing toxins from the body and mind with this practice.
body, breathe, eyes, living yoga, meditation, toxins, ujjayi breath | in yoga Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 1:35AM | robin If you are scared to face something within yourself, you may sometimes feel that time is against you or that you cannot fulfill your wishes because of your fears.
The answers might be in your dark sides that you refuse to see. Yoga can have the potential to be the place to confront what's most deep inside you. This means that you have the power to confront your darkest side of you in your yoga practice.
A place for the bold... But ask yourself, "What am I scared of?"
Deep within our bodies. The best parts stay locked up in our joints and tightest places: hips, necks, shoulders, backs, and even feet. When moving through yoga with deep breath, these gems—as secrets—can become free...
In a big way.
Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 6:14AM | robin Chill.
The beauty of solitude.
Magic.
Finding your soul.
The answers are coming.
Just lie here.
You will know what to do.. soon.
Ommm
photo by Ricky Tran
© 2010 Yoga Robin®
Monday, October 4, 2010 at 12:17PM | robin
Are you a workaholic? Do you work extra hours because you really need the money, or do you believe your job really needs you, and that it's ok to take care of your job more than yourself? Or do you, for one reason or another, find yourself addicted to your computer whether it's work or personal?
You do know that if you are working too much, you are acting like you are not very important.
Maybe, without knowing it, you are covering up something basic in your existence and doing it through your work. Staying busy all the time with a task that does not cultivate your soul can be like a drug that you continually allow to drive you. But you can beat it if you recognize who you truly are.
If you need rationale outside of yourself in order to ease up on workaholism, remember that no one really gets the best of you if you don't nurture yourself first.
balance, body, breathe, creativity, emotional health, exercise, living yoga, meditation, mind, nutrition, silence | in contemplation, psychology, yoga Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 3:07PM | robin Coming into wholeness. Feel your peace. Be in love with your path in life.
Find it inside you. Let go of all that makes you worry. Be free.
Access this freedom any time! The truest side of you coexists with the emotional mind...
Imagine 3 buckets of water.
The sun is shining in all three, and they each enjoy the sun equally. One is muddy, one is stirred up, one is still and clear.
Reflection in bucket #1 is dim and dull, in bucket #2 is agitated, and in bucket #3 is peaceful.
Sun is the Self, water is the Mind, reflection is the Ego (mis-identification)
Some conclusions...
advaita vedanta, answers, emotional health, freedom, letting go, meditation, path, peace, sankhya yoga, sattva, tapas | in spirituality, yoga Monday, September 6, 2010 at 12:11PM | robin I am now wondering where my fears are, going off the edge to find them in myself, in the depth of who I am. If I am bold enough and I don't turn back, I will be able to renew my patterns. This action will set me free.
In the dark shadows, I imagine I will sail through my depths as if a dream and find the silence I need and have searched for all my life. I know that the best stuff is at the very bottom.
More conspicuous and offset against the darkness, the gems and secrets are easier to see and feel. Sometimes they shine with luminosity like a beacon, with my name on them!
The bottom must be a bed of soft sand which I can dig my bare feet into and feel rooted, maybe for the first time. The ground of my soul. To touch this part of me is to release all that I previously imagined was hidden.
Transforming itself, no longer in the dark, I will invite it to be a part of my waking life.
body, darkness, dreams, fear, freedom, letting go, meditation, secrets, shadow, silence | in contemplation, yoga Monday, August 2, 2010 at 10:48AM | robin As yoga speaks the poetry of your body, words speak the poetry of your soul. Yoga and words complement each together. Any type of activity can also be a way of living your yoga.
No stranger to a community of poets and those who like to verbally relay their words to others? Many have a vibrant and active lifestyle to go along with this love of words.
Like the wind off a clear blue lake blows its answers to the mountains, take time to whisper the secrets to your heart. Listen to every touch with your sacred ears. Sit with the words as they write themselves. There are no mistakes. It is all yours. You write it to share, so that you can touch something other than the normal, regular you.
As you move the prana in your body, and work through the chakras, you experience your purpose in the moment. Through your desires, your energy and your heart, you will most likely find the soulful words whispering to you gently.
Continue moving and you eventually can surrender to that which you've activated, feeling it clear out all that gets in the way of knowing your true intuitions and spirit connection.
