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. IT WAS ALL A LIFE "I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body." - Dele Olanubi This quote, to live a life like this, can sometimes feel much like this picture. It has a kind of dreamlike quality. Some days it can feel as foggy dream we struggle to remember in the morning light; or the kind of wish we place on a penny in a fountain, or blowout on a birthday candle. The thing is, it's not! Or at least, it doesn't have to be. Does it? YOGA helps me cultivate these moments, this practice that reminds me that this life happens one breath at a time, one moment at a time, one intentional choice at a time. On purpose, with purpose. And thankfully that practice lasts much longer than any dream ever could. xo _/\_
"May my suffering be of service" is a prayer, an offering I come back to, time & time again. Our yoga mat, the altar. Our shared studio space, our church. YOGA, our practice. Today we meet here + a limited schedule this week. Sunday 2:00pm FLOW, @pureyogaottawa Centretown Monday 9:30am FLOW, Pure Yoga, Westboro Tuesday 12:00pm WARM YIN, @pranashantiyoga • THEN... @emergeyogafest Friday 10am Soul Limbering MEDITATION {Desire Map Inspired} 2pm Enter the Love Cocoon: YIN, we're going IN Saturday 12pm SLOW MINDFUL FLOW {LoveYourBrain inspired} 4pm Mindfulness MEDITATION {LYB inspired} Sunday 8am Rise & Radiate FLOW {DM inspired} 12pm WORKSHOP:: INTRO to Desire Map, Design a Life You Love, from the Inside Out • Honoured to have @djtazrashid sharing his epic beats n vibrations for many of my classes. Check out emergefestival.com/classes SINGLE & MULTI-DAY PASSES available. This festival is nestled in the heart of nature paradise, just 90-mins outside of Ottawa. Use DISCOUNT code: EMERGEWITHKATE for 10% off passes 📷 "May my suffering be of service" - @daniellelaporte This is a prayer, an offering I come back to, time & time again. Our yoga mat, the altar. Our shared studio space, our church. YOGA, our practice... * Somehow this prayer combined w this practice brings meaning & purpose to many of the things I cannot change about my path, while at the same time gives me the strength & the power to transform and shift...out of suffering...into pain alone, or into peace, even joy, or into simply a state of neutral being; accepting the moment as it is. Without resistance. Even if just for a moment. This is a practice rooted in Mindfulness, Buddhism. A gift bestowed to me by a Therapist in the Rehab Hospital, outside of the traditional therapy we were paired up to work on (speech therapy to be exact). She planted seeds that set me on a path. Which resulted in years spent in practice, classes, meditation, reading, study, practicing, learning through being, and so it continues. A Buddhist monk once shared this with her, and she shared it with me, and I share it forward to thee: Pain x Resistance = Suffering AND may our suffering be of service xo
. EMERGE YOGA FESTIVAL June 29 - July 2 | 90 mins from Ottawa This time next weekend we will be deep into yoga bliss ... exploring movement, breath, meditation, expansion of mind-spirit-soul, collaboration, connection, union, vibration, nourishment & a whole lotta love at @emergeyogafest! All of this AND we'll be tucked into a cocoon of nature paradise?! For real! The Emerge team has been using creating an absolutely magical back-drop, pulling together an epic schedule/line-up of world-class teachers, DJs/Musicians, food, and vendors. Too many to list, ahem @blissology & @seanecorn andddd and and, so many beautiful Ottawa & abroad souls - truly, this line-up is out of this world! 💓 & 💀 = blown I can't wait to set my eyes n heart on everything AND YOU all in a few short days. 📷 I made this pretty picture to give you a sense for the offerings I'll be guiding, many of which with @djtazrashid over the 3-day festival + my DISCOUNT code. Remember you can purchase single-day or multi-day passes. Full Festival passes include camping access, and camping passes are uber affordable. Hotel options are avail too {cuz sleep needs be personal, varied & important y'all}. Hope to see you there! Message me with any questions, or hop on over to emergeyogafestival.com to snag your tickets, pre-reg for your classes, and soak in all that Chessa, Kim & the team have in store for us. _/\_ xo
. CAUSE I STILL GOT A LOTTA FIGHT LEFT IN ME This. THIS somehow became my anthem today. Never felt this song like I did today. Despite waves of migraines & relentless headaches, cognitive fog/fatigue/endurance challenges & total TBI meltdowns...driving to a doctor's appointment this morning along the parkway, windows down, I blared this song & let the tears flow like waves. Fuck. Ya. "Like a small boat On the ocean Sending big waves Into motion Like how a single word Can make a heart open I might only have one match But I can make an explosion And all those things I didn't say Wrecking balls inside my brain I will scream them loud tonight Can you hear my voice this time? This is my fight song Take back my life song Prove I'm alright song My power's turned on Starting right now I'll be strong I'll play my fight song And I don't really care if nobody else believes 'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me Losing friends and I'm chasing sleep Everybody's worried about me In too deep Say I'm in too deep And it's been two years I miss my home But there's a fire burning in my bones Still believe Yeah, I still believe And all those things I didn't say Wrecking balls inside my brain I will scream them loud tonight Can you hear my voice this time? This is my fight song Take back my life song Prove I'm alright song My power's turned on Starting right now I'll be strong I'll play my fight song And I don't really care if nobody else believes 'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me A lot of fight left in me Like a small boat On the ocean Sending big waves Into motion Like how a single word Can make a heart open I might only have one match But I can make an explosion This is my fight song Take back my life song Prove I'm alright song My power's turned on Starting right now I'll be strong I'll play my fight song And I don't really care if nobody else believes 'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me Know I've still got a lot of fight left in me." - Fight Song, Rachel Platten #igotthis #tbi #braininjury #BIAM17 #spoonie #love #loveyourbrain #practice #onebreath #onemoment #oneintentionalchoiceatatime #lifelived #onpurpose #withpurpose #lovewarrior
. CUDDLE n COCOON WITHOUT APOLOGY Sometimes you just wanna, gotta, needta. Nourish that Yoga ... aka your whole, what does it need? The body & the mind, the heart & the spirit & the soul? When they come together, as a whole. If you wanna do it together, we meet at @pranashantiyoga on Tuesdays at 12pm in the LOVE COCOON for a little YINspiration. xo 📷 Ruby & Winston cuddling in the impromptu cocoon while mama was changing the sheets. I think they just wanted to send two key messages: "I'm just here for savasana" AND "love you love you love you love you" Fuzzies, we hear you & we feel you. xo • LOVE YOUR BRAIN ... and guess what!? Following practice today, I have the honour of meeting our next 6-week @LoveYourBrain Yoga & Meditation Series group. This is a free program for the concussion & TBI community, right here at PranaShanti. • The 6-week program has been filling up in less than 30 minutes, so we are dedicated & committed { & beyond grateful to @devinderkauryoga, the studio & support team, @LoveYourBrain, and of course the teacher team @paintedturtleyoga @lauriehowe2yoga @rachelanneschmidt who is working hard} to get a constant stream of offerings on the schedule:: August series will be posted soon, registration will open July 14 September & October series are being confirmed as we speak • If you're interested in participating in the program {you have a concussion/TBI and/or a support person to someone attending the program} please GET ON THE PRE-REGISTRATION WAITLIST so that you receive the emails from LoveYourBrain when registration opens: loveyourbrain.com/lyb-yoga-canada + For more info on LYB Ottawa related info, including the BIG community Launch Event & Fundraiser OCT 6 celebrating LYB being in CANADA!!! and the LYB YTT Oct 6-8, visit: katedurie.com/LoveYourBrain • #cuddle #cocoon #nourish #whitespace #slowdown #pause lovecocoon #savasana #love #ease #freetobe #loveyourbrain #lovemybrain #TBI #concussion #braininjury #BIAM17 #spoonie #spoonmanagement #beingokwithit #noteasyworthit #howdoyouwanttofeel #whatwillyoudotofeelthatway
. IF YOU LOVE IT, PUT A HELMET ON IT Summer is here, so options for sweat are plentiful! My recommendation of choice? YOGA of course ;) but everything is Yoga when you bring a Yogi spirit to it; the breath, the mindset, the soul, the practice of it. You can bring that into any movement or stillness practice. But here's the thing ... you're missing a piece when this happens:: HELMET RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES With our beautiful paths, commutes, landscape & scenery in this city, cycling is a popular one. If you're out on your bike or scooter or skateboard, etc ... please invest in a HELMET!! Then celebrate, invest in your BRAIN, YOUR LIFE, and put it on yo'head. For real! It only has a chance of preventing a #TBI if you wear it. Lately I've been {okay, I've been observing this FOR YEARS!!!!} observing so many beautiful souls out & about WITHOUT a helmet, or kids with helmets & their parents without. I've been hearing about otherwise wise souls drinking and then cycling, WITHOUT A HELMET! My heart breaks. I didn't experience my #TBI through a cycling accident, but the cause is irrelevant, I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I have spent time with many TBI survivors following a cycling accident - with helmets, let alone without. Trust me, if you can do anything to prevent this life changing event, potentially life ending event, wouldn't you? SO... I can only ask why? Why don't you wear a helmet? And so far, I can't think of, nor have I heard a single reason for WHY NOT that comes close to justifying the risk of TBI. I'm inspired to continue raising awareness. We humans, we're such intelligent, logical creatures, maybe we just need more info, stories, specific understanding. ;) Ok! In the meantime, PLEASE HELP ME ...why don't you wear a helmet? Have you heard others give you reasons why they don't wear one?! Let me know in COMMENTS or a brief message. FIND A DEALER:: My fave brand is @nutcasehelmets. OMazing coverage & the best designs! Under $100 ... trust me, worth its weight in gold. Lots of retailers in Ottawa: https://nutcasehelmets.com/pages/dealer-locator #ilovemybrain #loveyourbrain #BIAM17 #BIAM2017 #braininjuryawarenessmonth #braininjury
. THE LITTLE THINGS Feeling stoked. Tapping into gratitude when spoons are short & symptoms are flaring is key. So... Not only is glitter-light-radiating-GANESHA going to join us at @pureyogaottawa for our 2:00pm FLOW today ... but I'm tots LOVING my new yoga pants. Nope, I cannot lie. I love feeling liberated in my clothes ... so wearing yoga gear 90% of the time pretty much rocks m'world. It also means I get very very giddy when I put on a new pair that hits all my sweet spots for gear. Super comfy, soft lines, practically naked-sensation, high wasted AND nearly white {obsessed with white, light everything lately}, and of course made by the epic supporters of my path & community creating legends {oh ya, and they make rad sweat gear} ... @lululemon. The little things. Finding the joy. The gratitude. Seeking it out. Feeling it out, feeling it in. xo #thelittlethingsarethebigthings #gratitude #grateful #holyshift #joy #ease #love #flow #grace #wildlydivine #naked #howdoyouwanttofeel #whatwillyoudotofeelthatway #desiremapyogi #lifelived #onpurpose #withpurpose #onebreath #onemoment #oneintentionalchoiceatatime #lululemon #ganesha #practice #loveyourbrain #tbi #spoonie
. POSSIBILITY __________ { insert your word here} is always possible...when we cultivate a possibility mindset & create the space to breathe, allow our edges to soften, and we practice. For me, it's peace & love. You? The mat is always a great place to start:: Today (Sunday) 2:00pm Pure Yoga Ottawa, Centretown Monday 9:30am Pure Yoga, Westboro 12:00pm PranaShanti Yoga Centre 4:00pm Yogatown Preston Tuesday 12:00pm PranaShanti Regular schedule continues katedurie.com/yoga 📷Parliament Hill Yoga | #PHYoga | Yoga Church | moment captured by the one & only @_roblittle This word was & is more than a word to me. It became an anchor that symbolized hope, truth, and light to draw me forward following my #TBI.... and formed a trifecta with SHANTI on my other foot {shanti means PEACE in sanskrit - i chose the Sanskrit word as a nod to my yoga journey & its deep role in my healing & impact on my life, my soul}, and LOVE which is captured in the shape of m'signature heart drawing, which lives on my left wrist, and joins with MY HEART every time I join my hands in prayer. The layers of meaning go on and on for me, and continue to grow through my connection with love, with peace, with possibility, with my heart, my body, my mind, my spirit and their union, integration, and intricate interrelationship on this journey of life, of life with TBI, and life shared with others. ANDDDDD...yes, even GANESH is sunbathing, getting solar powered on The Mat behind me. Thank you for this moment-captured Rob! Can't wait to journey with Ganesh on in class again today!! Hope to see you there! xo _/\_
. GOTS BRAIN INJURY ? Did you know that {June} is Brain Injury Awareness month in Canada? Feels oh-so-fitting to be guiding a Ganesha inspired practice today & see below for a special @LoveYourBrain offering later today!! Hope to see you on the mat for YOGA LOVE today or Sunday: Friday 9:30am FLOW, @pureyogaottawa -Centretown 2:00pm LoveYourBrain Yoga Class, @pranashantiyoga ** by-donation {cash} class; being audio recorded as part of my prep for the 6-week LYB series starting June 20. This is a FREE yoga/meditation/discussion program for the concussion/traumatic brain injury community. Today's class will be a 75-minute LYB class (gentle meditative yoga class) with a 15 minute discussion afterwards. Please check out the FULL Event Description for details on FaceBook:: "LoveYourBrain - Fundraiser Class {by donation} +select GOING if you will be there, room capacity is 35 Sunday 2:00pm FLOW, Pure Yoga - Centretown 💜💀 Can't wait to go on our GANESHA journey in classes together for the next week! I've been invoking his energy more than ever lately, & let's be honest...this guy has been my go-to for years!! ;) From a beloved TBI traveler: "I am not grateful for everything that has happened to me. I am grateful for everything I have learned from it & this is my year to share that story!" This TBIer is feeling fresh outta spoons AND celebrating the epic powers of NO & LESS, while learning about the stickiness of "legacy YES's"; how long they can take to unwind, yet more clear than ever about the power to CHOOSE, & forever learning as a brilliant work in progress. One breath, moment, one intentional choice at a time - oh ya, that just keeps getting stronger. Let's just say October will be the echo Brain Injury Awareness month for this soul, with a whole lotta lessons & learnings to take forward in preparation for next year. Just like birthdays & holidays, I believe they are truly like little sparks, catalysts to bring that same energy, intention, focus, awareness, love, clarity, celebration to all the days of our lives. Hmmm May the journey continue ... xo _/\_
. OMG | OH MY GANESHA A rock in my journey, removing AND placing obstacles, helping me find the lessons, wisdom, teachings & blessings in it all. And so often the clarity comes in moments of stillness, a sacred pause on the mat, the cushion, the cocoon, in nature, wherever we can slow it down, close our eyes, go inside, soften the edges, and BE for a moment, or two. Ganesha = Elephant headed deity or god from the Hindu tradition. His story is vast, intricate & spectacular. He is most widely revered as the remover AND placer of obstacles, the god of new beginnings, and symbolizes wisdom and effortlessness, ease, acceptance, generosity, and more ... this beautiful mala came back from Bali with me. I love practicing with him on the top of my mat, especially in the grass at #PHYoga. After practice, the assymetry & symbolic moment of my shadow & brain gave me pause during a particularly challenging ebb in the flow of the TBI journey. Bowing to the mud, the lotus, the light, the journey. So grateful for this practice. _/\_ xo
. YOGA IN COMMUNITY Remember that heart-expanding experience we shared on the mat, on the lawn, on the Hill at #PHYoga, or at @cityofom?! Me too.
. LOVE + BRAIN = PEACE What part of you needs an extra dose of love today? m'brain Where could you soften the edges? m'skull You? Speaking of love + brain ... THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 16 at 2:00pm Please join me for a NON-WARM, NON-HOT yoga offering (haha, rare for this gal), a by-donation @LoveYourBrain Gentle Yoga Class at @pranashantiyoga. Please see details in the FB event description. _/\_ PranaShanti is a special place & space for so-many-reasons. One of those reasons, thanks to @devinderkauryoga is that it is hOMe to the LoveYourBrain Ottawa program!! What does that mean, you ask? 1. PranaShanti donates their beautiful, soulFULL space, free of charge for all the LYB 6-week Series, fundraising & related activities 2. PS donates their admin team's time & support to help w sign-in's & tracking back to LYB, etc 3. PS shares info about LYB on their website, answers calls & emails, lovingly guiding those w questions in the right direction And *SO* much more!!! Offering a program that is FREE for a community, in this case a community deep in my heart, one I am a part of - the brain injury community {concussion/TBI} - is always the result of countless hours of love, donated IN SERVICE, behind the scenes, to make the dream a sustainable reality. Thank you Devinder for believing in this dream, this program, this possibility from day one & helping us make it come true!! Thank you @LoveYourBrain for seeing the crack, the gap & filling it w light & love...building & creating THIS program & believing in us; making the program Int'l!!! Thank you @paintedturtleyoga, @lauriehowe2yoga, @rachelanneschmidt for coming on board as the first teachers & helping to raise love, funds & awareness as we grow our roots & build the program! Thank you @lululemon & @sajewellness, @pureyogaottawa, @seekerscentre, @cityofom, @purekitchenottawa, Hampton Wellness, Life Therapies, @kateryckmanart, @goldflyco, Align Massage, @origintrade, Natalie Cameron, Nathalie Beaupré, neuro optimization, Richard Hudspith Yoga, @smileyom, all our VOLUNTEERS & more (I'm so sorry if I missed you) for your donations & support in our fundraising efforts create a growing & sustainable offering for our community!
. FULL SPECTRUM LOVE Love is all the things. It can feel like sunshine, rainbows & unicorns...and it can feel like a "a cold & a broken hallelujah". Stepping and living into it can feel exhilarating AND frightening. I'm all in. Are you? Let's PRACTICE. See you ON THE MAT at @pureyogaottawa today {Sunday}:: 2:00pm FLOW, Pure Yoga - Centretown This week's schedule... Monday 9:30am FLOW, Pure Yoga - Westboro 12:00pm WARM FLOW, @pranashantiyoga 4:00pm FLOW, @myyogatown Preston Tuesday 12:00pm WARM YIN, PranaShanti Wednesday 9:30am FLOW, Yogatown -Preston Thursday 12:00pm FLOW XPRESS, Yogatown - Preston 4:30pm HOT FLOW, PranaShanti Friday 9:30am FLOW, Pure Yoga - Centretown 2:00pm **SPECIAL BY-DONATION CLASS** In prep for the next @LoveYourBrain 6-week Series {visit katedurie.com/loveyourbrain for more} I will be audio-recording (NOT vid) myself guiding one of the classes from the LYB program. Since the free 6-week series offerings have been filling so quickly AND we're always looking for ways to raise funds + love + awareness, this felt like a great opportunity! FB event description has details:: https://www.facebook.com/events/236606373497866/ . . 📷 Moment captured by this dear soulie:: @livedlifephotography at @cityofom . I've paired a moment, that captures a LOVE drenched experienced we all shared in that class with a quote that is capturing my heart right now. Oh the journey of life, love, and her full spectrum of depth & breadth, light & darkness, fear & vulnerability, pain & grief, joy & bliss, peace & healing, purpose & meaning, compassion & kindness...all the things. Mmmmmm. Whether we're talking people, ourselves, a particular injured or unwell part of our body {ahem, our brain/TBI}, any being, anythin ...it applies to all. Not easy. So worth it. "If you love something, love it completely, cherish it, say it, but most importantly show it. Life is finite & fragile, and just because something is there one day, it might not be the next. Never take that for granted. Say what you need to say, then say a little more. Say too much. Show too much. Love too much. Everything is temporary but Love. Love outlives us all." - Author Unknown #love #practice
. GO FOR THE PURRR Go for something that makes you purrrr today, or maybe this weekend! Make a plan. Then go get yo'purrr on. These ones - we love us some head rubs. If YOGA* gets your purrrr on, here are 2 possibilities for us over the weekend:: Friday 9:30am FLOW, @pureyogaottawa Centretown Sunday 2:00pm FLOW, @pureyogaottawa Centretown * YOGA avec moi often includes offers of neck, shoulder, head rub love after class. I love sharing that connection, a lingering savasana, and of course how good it feels ...so sharing it is one of my deep purrr pleasures! On tap right now = @sajewellness Tantra & Apres-Sport massage oils. 📷 First pic = Winston. Second = Ruby. They LOV quiet cocoon time with mama. Afternoons are their favourite. Over mornings & evenings for sure. Winston's been coming right in for lap time lately, which is always preceded by many many minutes of courting: him playing hard to get, head rubs, sacrum rubs, encouragement, me playing hard to get, then the final decent to the lap. Rubes prefers side cuddles or blanket tent cuddles so she can suckle & dash at any moment...with a new edition of placing her in a nugget shape, right up on my chest - rare, but she's all purrs when it happens and I LOVE IT. xo #goforthepurr #whatmakesyourpurr #cocooning #cocoontime #loveyourbrain #tbi #spoonie #makingpeace #howdoyouwanttofeel #whatwillyoudotofeelthatway #love #ease #furbaby #furbabies #winston #ruby #catmama #illtakewhaticanget #purrtherapy
. INSIDE 4 CORNERS We often associated 4-corners, 4-walls with being stuck, being or thinking 'inside the box', constrained, closed in. BUT Let's feel our way outside of that 'paradigm' for a sec ... I spend a lot of time with / inside 4-corners & 4-walls:: the mat, the studio, the lawn & they are a n y t h i n g but. For me, these four corners are sanctuary, liberation, connection, freedom, expression, love, insight, peace, stillness, calm, coming home, slowing down, truth, letting go, opening wide, creativity, bliss & so much more...all in one, inside these 4-corners. Magic? Maybe it's just a state of mind, heart, body, being. . 📷 These #PHYoga moments were captured by @lululemon educator & beautiful soul @_roblittle. Happened to see these on the Parliament Hill Yoga FB page yesterday - one from Devinder Kaur's class, Andrea Robertson's class, and two other amazing classes ... each shot captures why #PHY is my yoga church. The love, reverence, connection, community, movement & breath, united, in the open air on our parliament's lawn. Just you, me, and a couple thousand of our yogi friends coming together to share this transformational thing we call Yoga!!!! Wow. Thank you for capturing & sharing these Rob! And thank you @nomadic_han, @haute_nutrition, @jessicaresch09, Alex (sound/beats), @caitlinchapman12 + management team who supports so many educators to be out at this each week, the educators who hold down the fort back at the Rideau Centre, and the whole PHY @lululemon team ... for making this, believing this, dreaming this, growing this, loving this into what it is!!! xo _/\_
. IS RELIEF HERE The whole family is getting involved in my brain health! We ordered @icekap_migraine_therapy, put it together, laid it out in the freezer as directed, and are ready to see if it delivers on the big promise:: relief is here! See next pic ... as you can see, a gorgeous white fuzzy paw is covering the slogan ;) LOL Report #1:: The babies are in full approval. Ahem, about the box. Even if Winston only fits half his fuzzy body in it. ;) Clearly, that's a non-issue for him. Interim Report #2: I think mom will be a little more deciphering about the product that came inside, but this is the 3rd "ice helmet" product we've purchased since my #TBI to address headaches & migraines ... all provided some level of relief, all had some key areas of 'opportunity' for product improvement. This one was definitely more well thought out. A little crunchy when I put it on aka the ice froze pretty hard, BUT since one of the issues with past helmets, is that they didn't stay cold for very long...maybe this will soften into perfection & longer relief! ... thank you @icekap_migraine_therapy for filling a gap & giving us another non-RX option to put in our toolkit. Thank you @kateryckmanart for sharing this discovery with me {and your dear friend who told you about it!} _/\_ xo TIP:: Massage #PeppermintHalo @sajewellness generously into your skull before putting the ice helmet on. Whoa. Definitely ups the brain cooling & relief factor for me. But of course keep in mind we all have different symptoms & preferences for relief, etc ... #icekap #migraine #headache #braininjury #brainhealth #concussion #loveyourbrain #lovemybrain #cocooning #selfcare #howdoyouwanttofeel #whatwillyoudotofeelthatway #furbabies #winston #ruby
. OPEN WIDE Those moments. When you close your eyes, go inside, and pause. It's like you're watching a speeding train be placed in slow motion. You breathe it in, and it all flows out. You soften & feel so fully alive, here. Right here. Right there. In that moment. Full pause. Full presence. Everything blurs into one. White space. Indescribable. Mmmmmmm YOGA. COMMUNITY. OTTAWA. Let's keep it alive. Possibilities x3 today: 9:30am FLOW, Pure Yoga Ottawa Westboro 12:00pm WARM FLOW, PranaShanti Yoga Centre 4:00pm FLOW, Yogatown Preston ...& regular schedule for rest of the week katedurie.com/yoga 📷 @livedlifephotography captured this moment at @cityofom in our meditative flowy yiny vibe Desire Map class... I often have to remind myself that I am the teacher / the guide, as I get so taken by the energy of these embodied moments, the love, all the feelings radiating from each of the gorgeous souls giving themselves fully to the moment. This is yoga. This is magic. And yes, I wore my 2016 #cityofom tank ;) but these were most certainly 2017 souls cracking open yesterday, letting the light break in AND out, letting the love pour in AND out. Deciding to RISE into the truth of it all, the heart of it all - that feeling good {at your core, your soul level} is the whole point, rising into choosing to cultivate a practice {a yoga practice, maybe a life practice to} that feels good... one breath, one moment, one intentional choice at a time. xo AND BOWS OF YOGI REVERENCE n GRATITUDE to:: @lululemon for suiting up all the teachers in amazing yoga pants to go with our @cityofom tanks AND @mala.rae for creating the second City of Om wrist mala to add to the collection, gifted to all the teachers. _/\_ xo
. GRATITUDE Ok. So, it might feel like a @cityofom hangover for much of the yogi community today...BUT that's my kind of hangover:: epic consumptions of love, breath, movement, savasana, connection & more. HAIR OF THE {downward facing dog} ANYONE?? Meet you on the mat today + this week's line-up:: 2:00pm FLOW, @pureyogaottawa Centretown ... regular schedule continues for the rest of the week:: katedurie.com/yoga for dates/locations/details 📷 @livedlifephotography I've spent the morning soaking in gratitude. Taking in the wholehearted moments captured by the gorgeous Yogi's who came out to share the love at CITY OF OM in the @pranashantiyoga practice pavilion yesterday. Thank you for sharing those moments, thank you for sharing your love, thank you for sharing this experience with me, with each other. I'm going to let the gratitude process continue to ripple before I post more fully, but know I am breathing into it deeply, and am filled so completely. Deep deep gratitude to the abundantly alive beating hearts that offered their PRACTICE and HANDS-ON LOVE during class w the generous support of @sajewellness donating the oils ... I could feel your FULL PRESENCE through every movement demo'd & every touch offered. I bow to each of you! Hands-on LOVE (alpha order): David Foster Emma Tanner Lauren Owens Macha Dubois Shannon Ieria Sheri Chiprout Sophie Abboud Whitney Morgan Lee DEMOing:: Bronwyn Marie-Claude Messier Jason Welyki Josh Towell Rhiannon Vogl Stephen Bierbrier Véronique Geneviève & to the healing vibrations that came from @meganmariegee crystal bowls & very own vocal cords, helping us all soften the edges, break open & let the light, the love flow IN, THROUGH & OUT. ANDDDDD to the precious soul who feels like an extension of my heart in many ways Kyla, the human behind the lens of @livedlifephotography Thank you for capturing moments of love & connection! CITY OF OM / @paintedturtleyoga, Dennis, KARMA YOGI volunteers, SPONSORS, vendors, *TEACHERS & STUDENTS, & everyone who makes a day that feels so friggin good possible, but is herculean in nature to make possible ... THANK YOU THANK YOU! Gawd I love this city. We are so friggin blessed.
. LOVE YOUR BRAIN Celebrating @loveyourbrain today and everyday; radiating deep deep gratitude for every millimetre they have taken on their journey & in supporting so many of ours. {Molly/Kim/Team:: Pssst thank you for this beautiful LYB-@lululemon branded tank top that has quickly become a staple in my yoga gear!! } I celebrate this incredible life-changing organization called LoveYourBrain today & everyday AND I celebrate my own ever evolving journey of learning how to loveMYbrain, T O D A Y AND E V E R Y D A Y {at least I intend to, I try my best, and then, I take another breath and choose again, I keep going} Because it's a journey that I go on every-damn-day ... and one I know I don't go on alone. So I celebrate YOU too, all of my extended LYB brothers & sisters, the brain injury community at large, far & wide, who are on this journey too. And I celebrate YOU, those who are there behind the scenes with unending love & support {I repeat this a million times in a million ways, you know who you are}, showing interest & becoming educated, all the healing & related resource people, the cocoon honouring, the understanding, picking up the pieces & remembering & knowing & patience, and so much more. Thank you. I celebrate you, us, the journey, the daily journey. . LOVE What if today, one breath, one moment, one intentional choice at a time ... we choose to practice LOVING the very part of us, the very thing, that is hardest to love, that is giving us the most reasons not to, that is making life the most challenging? Love. Your. ________ {Brain}. Fill in your gap. xo _/\_