I said goodbye to my best friend yesterday. Her name was Hera. 🐶 She appears every once in awhile in my photos but she’s been with me for 14 years.
As I watched her life lift gently out of her, I felt an amazing presence in my heart and had visions of her reuniting with her brother Zeus - frolicking on healthy legs once more.
When seated with death, I found myself unattached to her body. I whispered sweet thank you’s in her ear and I felt joy for her reunion and freedom, not loss.
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🖤 dying may be scary, but in that moment, death was not.
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I took this photo the day prior. The others she and he photo bombed. ☺️
#walkaboutyoga #rainbowbridge #freedom
vi•ra•go (n.) : a warlike Woman
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|| ᗩ ᗷᖇIᗪGE ||
She’s waged war.
A warlike Woman skilled in #defense and #attack.
Habituated that to #survive, one must #defeat.
Never did the Virago ask - whom shall I defeat?
Instead she battled, abused, and bloodied the closest and most defiant enemy she could find -
Her own forgiveness.
She stabbed its back, but it’s will escaped.
She dragged it through shame, but compassion held its footing
She tortured its trust, but truth eluded her torment
She mutilated the heart as in beat in her chest, but love cleansed the shards and laced it back to perfect imperfection.
A warlike Woman.
Scorched by the war raging within.
Bloodied by the awareness that’s been gifted.
Humbled by the forgiveness that is hers.
A Virago - but against whom?
#SELF-JUDGEMENT
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Sun Tzu once said:
“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” (The Art of War).
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So she built a golden bridge - for judgement to retreat across.
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Inspired by @ben_winkler_photography 🙏
#walkaboutyoga #warlikeWoman #goldenbridge #virginiabewch #sunset
🌿 birthday wish 🌿
2 years ago, I bought myself this bow for my 35th birthday. 🏹 To mark a new direction, a new patience, a new focus. Today, I offer up a poem to myself for 37 - and my wish is that it be a birthday/any day wish for you too. 💫
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|| ᗰY ᗯIᔕᕼ ||
Birthdays come and birthdays go,
Sown with seeds of truths unknown.
Today’s truth is tomorrow’s lesson,
Tomorrow’s truth - snapshot in the progression.
Space that we hold, and choices we make,
Gifts undiscovered, wheel of fortunes of fate.
To believe that we are, “where we need to be”,
Is to trust divine chaos, the hardest fight you will meet.
On this day, I make this pledge,
to my future self and girl of the past.
I hold you both in the moment of now,
Fertile soil of freedom from the pressure of “how?”
I accept your “failures”, your “fuck-ups”, and “not agains”,
Mistakes that you’ve made, and your limited lens.
I conjure them up with the woman you’ll be,
And in the simmer, boil off shame and “if only”.
The steam of self-doubt released from the reduction,
All that you were, towards the same direction.
So know that you’re held, in every decision,
There are no wrongs, just longer routes in the vision.
You are truth in your every moment,
Divine love reflected, it’s forgetting that torments.
One foot in front of the other, and let the world swirl,
You’re on the right path, my birthday girl.
//L
📷 @robertsturman
#walkaboutyoga #wish #robertsturman
They say “Join the Navy, see the world.”
Well I say “Leave the Navy, see the #REST of the world.”
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🌏Let’s help send a VETERAN on a Yoga Retreat that 🔥ISN’T🔥dangerous and stressful.
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⛰One lucky Veteran will be sponsored to attend Walkabout Yoga’s retreat to Machu Picchu this August 2019! (All donations go directly to lodging, mindful eating, transportation, activities, yoga, & meditation)
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👥A board of Veteran panelists will review applications of eligible applicants and select ONE qualified recipient for the retreat by June 28th!
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✨The Sponsored Veteran will be shared on social media on #IndependenceDay July 4th so you’ll get to meet the person you’ve helped create this transformational wellness adventure for!
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📿 PLUS @malaforvets is sponsoring free Malas for the Veteran as well!
visit LINK in profile & FOLLOW @walkabout_yoga_retreats for more info! 🙏PLEASE REPOST and let’s give back to a VET!
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#walkaboutyoga #malaforvets #yogaretreats #giveback #vetyoga #yogaforveterans #veteranyoga #yoga #retreats #machupicchu
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