As my teacher Pashumati says
“Yoga is not a negation from life, it’s going into life”.

Physical Mobility: Bring your body to the mat so you can bring your best to the mountain. Stretching has been proven to help prevent injuries, decrease inflammation, modulate physical and mental pain, and impact exercise recovery speed. (Huberman Lab)

Earth Activism: 
STHIRA-SUKHAM-ASANAM
LET THE BODY BE STEADY, COMFORTABLE IN CONNECTION WITH THE EARTH.

SUTRA 2.46; THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI

LOKA-SAMASTA-SUKHINO-BHAVANTU
May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.

Awake in the Wild: "Awake in the Wild” is the signature 200 hour Shantiseva Yoga & Lifestyle integrated Teacher Training program with Tina Pashumati James. This is an 8 step Mental, Physical, Emotional & Spiritual Health program to include yogic study, vigorous vinyasa as well as restorative yoga, scared ceremony and the four directions.

When I began yoga - I had two modes: 1,000 miles per hour or asleep. Yoga is a great gift to give yourself to begin to regulate your nervous system, to breathe deeply and to listen to your body.  I design classes to improve mountain mobility through strengthening and restorative positions. I take inspiration the moon and planetary cycles and books to bring awareness to the spiritual and self realisation concepts. Therefore no two classes are ever the same, yet the ingredients are consistent for strength, opening, awareness, balance. 

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Flexibility + Control = Mobility. 

In Yoga one breathes with the body into greater ranges of motions. 

Breathing deeply as you approach the endpoint of your personal range of motion, as well as holding it at your endpoint (not pushing) can increase your strength and control of movements of the body. Greater power is generated by strength and mobility. 

What happens when a rubber band that is dry and brittle is stretched?
It snaps and breaks. 

Resilience is akin to being elastic. When stretched one wants to be strong, pliable and return to shape. 

In restorative yoga (longer resting/ stretching positions) the muscles are trained to relax entirely while breathing supports through increasing circulation to build resilience in the muscles. 

Yoga returns the body to parasympathetic state; it soothes your nervous system. 

In yoga, when we move from power asanas to restorative asanas we can train the nervous system to memorise this patterning, so that one can regulate the nervous system in everyday life. 

When I first arrived in yoga class - I had two modes: 1000 miles per hour or asleep. Yoga is a great gift to give yourself to begin to regulate your nervous system, to breathe deeply and to listen to your body.  I design classes to improve mountain mobility through strengthening and restorative positions. I take inspiration the moon and planetary cycles and books to bring awareness to the spiritual and self realisation concepts. Therefore no two classes are ever the same, yet the ingredients are consistent for strength, opening, awareness, balance. 

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