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Good morning Nostr! ☀️ Want to start your day with movement and breath? Join me tomorrow for a sunrise yoga class Thursday at 6 am PT / 9 am ET / 1 pm UTC - set your reminders now! It will be on @HiveTalk, link goes up 15 min before class How we start the day sets the tone for everything we do. Take the morning for your well-being! 🤍 #gm #coffeechain #nostr #sunrise #yoga #class #spirituality #wellness #health #yogastr #yogawithanna

Such a fun and inspiring episode. Thank you for recording live and opening the space up for questions. You two make Nostr a great place to be 🤍⚡️

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In this episode of Beyond Bitcoin, we dive into the current state of value-for-value offerings. Our guest, Heather, was the first yoga teacher usin...

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#yoga class starting in 15 min! 🕉️🤍

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Good morning Nostr! Time for a coffee before today’s #yogastr class Who’s joining us? ☀️ Starting on 1.5 hours, the link will be posted here 15 min prior to start #gm #coffeechain #grownostr View quoted note →

Starting in just a couple hours! If you’re free, you’re gonna want to watch this one live. I know it will be inspiring to all of us to build more #community and #v4v offerings here on #nostr View quoted note →

Tomorrow is another #yogastr #class! Thursday 6 am PT / 9 am ET / 1 pm UTC Practice from your own home, build strength and flexibility, and find your center during your busy life Always #v4v hosted on @HiveTalk #yoga #yogawithanna #spirituality #wellness #arizona #sunrise

This is how I want to start my mornings. Does anyone have a source of coffee beans for Bitcoin? #gm #coffeechain #asknostr View quoted note →

This is gonna be good, listen live if you can! Two great people who are working on spreading the word about Nostr and expanding the Bitcoin economy 🤍 View quoted note →

Why do I keep practicing yoga? The physical benefits are wonderful - gaining strength, flexibility, and healing pain in the body. But the real reasons I have stuck with it for 15+ years are under the surface - I formed a better relationship with self-image - my sleep became deeper and easier - I rewrote addictive patterns with substances and food - I had methods to heal my nervous system after traumatic events - I was able to better navigate the waves of anxiety, grief, and anger - I found a space where I can detach from my mind and observe myself, instead of being ruled by my thoughts Patañjali’s definition of yoga as in the Yoga Sutras is: “yogaś-citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ” Yoga reduces the fluctuations of the mind through absorption in the practice. Our mental patterns are rewritable. Yoga empowers us to change the way we think.

Ooo I am hoping I catch a sale next time! View quoted note →

What do you think today’s project is? #herbalism #foraged #foraging #flowers #homesteading #grownostr

#gm #nostr! I used to looove sleeping in late, but there is something about waking up before sunrise, teaching a #yoga class, and starting on the day’s project all before 9 am that feels even better. What do you prefer? Early or late rising?

I have ocotillo blossoms to go around. Accepting sats for flowers on @Plebeian Market :) They make a beautiful tea or tincture

Ocotillo Flowers, Foraged & Dried - 1/2 oz.

Ocotillo flower blossoms freshly gathered from the Sonoran Desert. This unique plant produces beautiful flowers that look like “little torches”...

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The ocotillos are in bloom! These distinctive desert plants are named after their flowers - little torches 🔥 The blooming of these flowers feels so special in the desert. A burst of color after the muted days of winter. A meeting place for the birds and insects to feed on sweet nectar. The flowers clear the stagnancy our bodies feel after the early spring - a time when the Kapha dosha (earth & water) dominates and brings congestion and sluggishness Their action is warming - boosting flow of the lymphatic system and supporting the immune system ☀️ They make a delicious tea that reminds me of a cross between hibiscus and honeysuckle 🌺 Nature provides us the most beautiful allies right outside our door. The bloom of the ocotillos is a fleeting moment where the desert feels especially bright and abundant #plants #plantmedicine #foraging #foragedfoods #foragedtea #tea #herbs #herbalism #ayurveda #liveofftheland #homesteading #offgrid #wellness

Kali is relaxed after joining the yoga class #dogstr #dogsofnostr #yogapup

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#gm #nostr It’s almost time for a #yogastr class! Starting in 40 min on HiveTalk

HiveTalk

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The Practice of Non-Possessiveness Letting go of material attachments is one of those guidelines that seems to come up in every religious and spiritual text. When I was younger, this concept fell under the list of sins that my grandparents and their churches spoke of and my rebellious nature was filled with disdain. Later I came to understand that restraints are given in spiritual texts to lift up the individual when the pleasures and pains of life become overwhelming; having this structure helps one sustain their growth towards true happiness. Aparigraha Non-possessiveness is one aspect of yama, or restraint, given by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras to help the yogi to live in society without losing sight of the spiritual path. The sutra that describes aparigraha is translated by B.K.S. Iyengar as: “Knowledge of past and future lives unfolds when one is free from greed for possessions.” In other words, we learn who we truly are when we let go of what we are clinging onto. When I ask myself “who am I?”, it is so hard to come up with an answer outside of the material world. At times, I have been a student, an engineer, a cook, a sister, a wife... but none of that will come with me when I leave this body. A challenging aspect of this practice is recognizing what truly brings us happiness and what no longer serves us. Does your house, your car, your career, your relationship truly improve your life? What are you holding onto simply because it may be painful to break the attachment, even when peace is on the other side of the pain? Spiritual Warfare When my spiritual path led me to explore shamanism, I was struck by a common issue healers of different cultures face in their community: sickness and even death are caused by spiritual attacks triggered by envy, jealousy, and resentment. People in the Amazon jungle fear attracting the envidia of their neighbors, in case it leads them to hire a sorcerer to take away their health and happiness. The Italian side of my family knocks wood to prevent sending malocchio, the evil eye, to those they admire. In their culture also, it is a dangerous thing to spend too much time looking at what others have. It seems to me the best defense to an attack is an offensive one. That is, to avoid flaunting wealth, beauty, success, or whatever other gift one has. Another layer of this is to freely share wealth that goes beyond what we need to live so that our neighbors can also find happiness. This concept feels so opposite to how many people act in the society I live in. Here in the United States many seem to find great pleasure in inciting the envy of their neighbors with a green lawn, flashy car, or new shoes. I am not spending time worrying about a spiritual attack, but I have come to recognize that it gives me much more joy to share what I have with my community. How can we measure success without putting ourselves above and below those around us? What does this mean in modern American society? I am finding it increasingly difficult to engage in American society while practicing non-possessiveness. When did so many people begin to admire the influencer? I am not above this. Although I would like to use social media as a tool for connecting to my community, it is challenging to avoid being sucked into the call for materialism and envy of our connections. Go onto Instagram or Facebook and one is flooded with posts advertising courses that will teach you to how to live a happy life, if only you have enough money to support the teacher and the companies they are partnered with. The line between comfort and true happiness is hard to discern. I am grateful for the abundance I have which keeps me well-fed and stocked with tools that make my life easier. I choose to live in the material world and to keep up with the practice of non-possessiveness, I will need to keep asking what I really want and what I am chasing for a fleeting moment of gratification. Do you feel like you can find more peace by letting go?

The Green Light of Kambo This is a quote from another Kambo Practitioner that explains the beauty of sitting with this medicine quite beautifully: “Kambô circulates in the heart. Our shaman said that when we take Kambô it makes the heart move accurately, so that things flow, bringing good things to the person. It is as if there was a cloud on the person, preventing the good things to come, then, when it takes the Kambô; it comes a ‘green light’, which opens its ways, making things easier” I’m still learning where earth medicines assist my spiritual path. There was a period where I thought practicing yoga asanas and pranayama was everything. I imagined that using substances was a shortcut or a detriment to my practice. My first Kambo ceremony led to one of the most dramatic shifts in my life. I went for months feeling burnt out, exhausted, achy, and depressed. The day after the ceremony I was excited to greet the day, filled with energy, literally seeing the world in more vibrant colors. According the classic texts on Hatha Yoga, purification is the first step of our practice. I was not arriving to my mat in a healthy body when I felt the call to sit with Kambo. A healthy body is needed to support a healthy mind, and a healthy mind is needed to reached an enlightened state. Kambo is the medicine taken from the giant monkey tree frog who resides in the Amazon jungle. Taking this secretion from another animal means that our body integrates the medicinal compounds (peptides) as our own. This medicine helps us to recover the balance that has been disrupted by a toxic lifestyle. Kambo helps us to remember our natural state of being.