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Sthira Sukha - Balancing Ease with Effort in your IVF Journey

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Sthira Sukha - Balancing Ease with Effort in your IVF Journey

If you’ve been with me since I started Braving Infertility, I always say that yoga helped me stay calm through all the ups and down of IVF.

My practice gave me a lot of tools that gave me the space to grow and shift my mindset. And one of those tools is balancing effort with ease, which comes from the Yoga Sutra “Sthira Sukham Asanam.”

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Give Up What You Expect Your Practice (OR Life) Should Look Like

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Give Up What You Expect Your Practice (OR Life) Should Look Like

I was reminded the other day in a yoga class, of how much expectations I put on myself and that made me recall something I read, which went like this:

Question: Who killed you?

Answer: Expectations

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To 'Namaste' Or Not to 'Namaste' (At the End of A Yoga Class)

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To 'Namaste' Or Not to 'Namaste' (At the End of A Yoga Class)

I’ve discovered in a recent Sutra Study group discussion that I may have been culturally misappropriating the word Namaste, by saying it at end of class instead of the beginning.

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The 3 Practices of Baptiste Yoga

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The 3 Practices of Baptiste Yoga

In Baptiste Yoga, there are 3 Practices — Asana, Meditation and Inquiry - practices that we want to embody ON and OFF our mat. It’s not always perfect where we can be in practice of the physicalness that will lead to the awareness and self-discovery. All we can do is to be willing to try and let be.

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