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Integrating Yoga into our Everyday Living

That Four Letter Word - LOVE

18/5/2018

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What is love? It is a question that has been asked for eons.
 
Have you ever experienced a moment when you have been met by someone who has been totally present with you? They see you for who you are, they see your beautiful, adorable qualities. They see your absolute potential and hold you in that.
 
This indeed is a beautiful feeling. We know love and we know when we feel it.
Then imagine meeting yourself in this very same way. Being totally present with you, seeing all of your own incredible qualities and enjoying being with all of that. How often do we actually take a moment to fully see ourselves like this? How often do we value those moments to stop and be, knowing that all those things we do, or keep ourselves busy with become empty if we aren’t valuing who we are first.
 
S E L F – L O V E
 
What then happens when we add the word SELF to the word LOVE? Is it . . . .
 
Selfish?
Self-obsessed?
Self-absorbed?

 
Self-love is meeting ourselves, totally being present with ourselves. It’s a body and mind thing. When we keep our presence with our body, keeping our mind together and focused on what we are doing, we get to become aware of so much more. We get to feel how delicate we are, how sensitive we are and how much we are feeling. In that state of presence we know how to take care of ourselves to the nth degree – a level of care that leaves us feeling very aware, present, open, still, joyful and ready for anything.
 
Our body very quickly tells us when we step away from the way it is designed to be treated. It knows love inside and out. The question is, are we present enough to listen and act on what we have received?
 
Esoteric Yoga is a sequence of movements designed specifically for us to explore being present with ourselves again. We observe the effects of a restless mind, its endless distractions, lies and stories that it feeds and very cleverly convinces us of. We learn how to settle the body and the mind through focus, presence and a level of connection with our body. We come to understand that we have a body and a being, an energetic state of being that is equally important to know and take care of. We learn how to look after this incredible body of ours in a way that is self-loving.
 
Whenever we are met by someone who has been totally present with us, what we are feeling is the way they are with themselves. For how we are with others is only ever a reflection of the care and love we have for ourselves. How could that ever be called selfish? That’s what I would describe as inspiring!


Author: Vicky Geary
Photographer: Dean Whitling

 

1 Comment
Sandra
10/6/2018 08:41:24 pm

Esoteric Yoga for me is a simple, yet powerful way to connect to the stillness inside my body. During a session I am reminded that the stillness is always there, it is me that chooses to disconnect from it from time to time either through going into drive, anxiousness or eating too much because I don't want to feel something. Esoteric yoga supports me in deepening my level of stillness which allows me to surrender and embrace my life as it unfolds naturally, and that there is no need to try, push or have expectations. Self-love and true self-care is ever deepening for me - an ongoing journey supported by the practitioners of Esoteric Yoga and my willingness to deepen the relationship I have with myself.

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