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::C O U N T R Y S I D E:: (and big news!) My happy

::C O U N T R Y S I D E:: (and big news!)
My happy place.
Most of my life I have spent in a city. Born & raised in Gdansk (a beautiful coastal city in the north of Poland), studied in Warsaw, moved to U.K. and settled in Oxford. The last 8 months I’ve spent in Sydney.
I love the city but for a while have been feeling a strong pull to move to the country side and decided to move to Devon (or East Cornwall) on our return to U.K. in March 2021.
I’ll still maintain my connections with Oxford, probably teaching on a monthly basis, but my plans are now focusing on creating something new, something that will serve all of you in a different way.
For now, please stay tuned. I miss you and love you all xx
Ps. If you’re a yogi based in the south Devon/ east/south Cornwall please DM❤️Would love to start creating new connections in that beautiful part of the country.
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::C O N T E N T M E N T:: Last day - day 5 - #eve

::C O N T E N T M E N T::

Last day - day 5 - #everybodyyogachallenge Santosha means contentment or satisfaction. It's the yogi's secret to happiness. Yoga teaches us to accept where we are even when we try to change things for better. Santosha doesn't mean idly sitting back and relinquishing the need to do anything. It simply means accepting and appreciating what we have and what we are already, and moving forwards from there. This whole year has been a practice of Sanotsha for me. Loss, lockdown, uncertainty, illness. I'm here. How can I be satisfied without all my friends to have a coffee with, without teaching all the classes (20+ a week is now down to 3), with the discomfort an anxiety watching what’s going to happen with the world. And yet I’m feeling content, in so many ways. It’s like in my heart, there’s an eye of the storm, peaceful and steady.
Yoga is a practice. On the mat and off the mat.

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::S T U D Y:: Day 4 (yes, I’m playing a catch up

::S T U D Y::
Day 4 (yes, I’m playing a catch up, yesterday was such a full on day with admin & lockdown) of #everybodyyogachallenge brings us Svadhyaya - self study (also translated as Study of The Self).

In Sanskrit, it combines the spiritual self-inquiry and the study of sacred texts.
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Initially I thought of posting a photo of books I’ve recently read, but then decided to share a video of my own practice. On the mat, whether meditating or moving, I’ve learned so much about myself, the Self, my thought patterns, attachments, reactions, about joy and non-attachment... every time I step on the mat, something new unfolds.

Most university degrees requires years to complete. Yoga is like a university degree in the human soul. Not only are there texts to study and fabulous teachers that guide your development, there is your time, presence and the attitude of curiosity, which you must decide to give to the practice.

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::T A P A S:: Discipline Day 3 of @everybody_stud

::T A P A S:: Discipline

Day 3 of @everybody_studio #everybodyyogachallenge brings us discipline. Calls for discipline can be unpopular, and even thought of as negative. In our free-thinking culture many people dislike the idea of following the rules.
I like to think of myself as free, untamed, wild in the ways that I pursue life, and yet there’s that part of me that’s disciplined, a part of me that is committed.
In the yoga practice there is a long history of disciplined approach to spiritual practice. Called Tapas in Sanskrit, can be translated as discipline or austerities (which can be even more intimidating). Another translation define Tapas as the acceptance of those difficulties that lead to spiritual growth. I love this definition because often I see students using the idea of discipline as an excuse to practice with harshness and severity, and even turn the practice into a kind of penance. But, yoga is rooted in the path of love and balance and extreme hardship is not the way. On the other hand if practice is too easy, it won’t be able to teach you about the depths of yourself. Discipline, and in fact anything else in the yoga practice actually comes from love.

I’ve been struggling to enjoy my energetic practice recently. After a miscarriage, followed by shingles, and a chest infection combined with asthma, my body is simply not up for it. And that’s ok, as long as we show up to our practice. Today I intended on doing an energetic flow, but my body wasn’t in agreement. Instead I took a wonderfully soothing and calming, heart opening class with @denise_sorrell and it was such a deep, loving experience.
Sometimes the discipline needed it to tell your ego to calm down and let your yoga practice be exactly what your soul needs.
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:: S A T Y A:: Day two of #everybodyyogachallenge

:: S A T Y A::
Day two of #everybodyyogachallenge bring us Satya, Truthfulness. The second Yama is intimately connected with Ahimsa, because it builds on the premise that dishonesty is a form of harm, but also that our truth should not cause harm.

Satya teaches us not to lie – to others or to ourselves.
But, the truth does not exist in a vacuum and there are many levels of moral relativity that often cloud our judgement about it. For example, we can speak the truth without love or kindness. In doing so, we weaponize the truth for personal vindication instead of maximizing the impact of truth as liberation. Sometimes when people say that they are going to “share their truth” what is really happening is that they are going on a personal emotional rant without boundaries. Sharing the “truth” may in fact be quite different than just vomiting up whatever bothers you at the time.

Sharing your truth should always build on the premise of Ahimsa. Is it true? Is it necessary (not just to make me feel better)? Is it kind? 🙏🏻

My truth is a constant discovery. Years ago I didn’t even know where to look. Suited, booted, flying around from one client meeting to another. Unhappy, but feeling I can’t give that up, I cannot let that go... the moment I’ve taught my first yoga class felt like fully breathing for the first time. I knew it was what I was meant to do. I knew I felt my dharma. There was no going back. Once you’ve felt you’re truth, no matter how uncomfortable it feels at the time, there’s no way to un-feel it.

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:: A H I M S A:: Joining my dear friends in #every

:: A H I M S A::
Joining my dear friends in #everybodyyogachallenge 🙏🏻
In Yoga Sutras, Patanjali guides us through different elements or ways to live a yogic life – 8 Limbs Of Yoga, and surprisingly for some, the physical asana practice doesn’t come first on that list.

Patanjali started with Yamas and Niyamas – a yogic code of conduct, ethical and moral guidelines on how we should live our lives to achieve the true yogic strength, power, and transformation, on and off the mat.

Ahimsa – the first of 5 yamas (and in my opinion the most important one) is often translated as non-violence or non-harm.

I like to think of it as an encouragement to live your life in a space that’s opposite to hate and violence - and that space is LOVE 💖

Do no harm. Establish yourself in love. It is in fact the most important practice of yoga and everything else stems from it.

It guides our attention to more mindful choices in our life – looking at our actions, words and thoughts – from our ways of interacting with others (humans and animals),the way we speak to ourselves internally, the way we treat our environment etc.
To me living these values is more important than any asana and the latest example of living AHIMSA was fostering Frankie. She’s a beautiful, very timid stray cat who was practically saved the very last minute before being euthanised by people who decided stray cats can’t be rehomed. Her life to them was worth $50 (what they were paying the vet to kill her). She’s the gentlest, sweetest and while it’s been a challenge like no other, shes now ready to be adopted. Now another lesson - aparigraha, non attachment. But we’ll come to that later.
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