My grandmother practiced yoga for fifty years. She called it sitting down.
Asana means seat. Not pose. She had it right all along, the vocabulary just hadn't caught up.
What does your practice look like without the words?
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#yogaphilosophy #presencepractice #familywisdom
#embodiedwisdom #contemplativepractice #culturalheritage
My grandmother practiced yoga for fifty years. She called it sitting down.
Asana means seat. Not pose. She had it right all along, the vocabulary just hadn't caught up.
What does your practice look like without the words?
#yoga #asana #ancestralwisdom
#yogaphilosophy #presencepractice #familywisdom
#embodiedwisdom #contemplativepractice #culturalheritage
I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
#grounded #yogalife #innerwisdom
I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.
The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.
What did you absorb before you had words for it?
#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
#grounded #yogalife #innerwisdom
Who taught u how to be still before you knew what meditation was? Before studios, before apps, before the word 'mindfulness'?
My grandmother taught me to breathe 'the way mountains breathe' when I was 10
Who was your first teacher?
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https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/what-my-grandmother-taught-me-about-stillness-bbc2dff19f7b
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#grandmotherwisdom #contemplativepractice
#mindfulness #presencepractice #stillness #familywisdom
10 years old, barefoot on cool tiles, watching my grandmother water jasmine. She never called it meditation, she showed me how mountains breathe
Years later in yoga class: 'find your breath.' I already knew. Abuela taught me
Who taught u stillness first?
Read more
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/what-my-grandmother-taught-me-about-stillness-bbc2dff19f7b
#meditation
#contemplativepractice #stillness
#mindfulness #presencepractice #familywisdom #breathwork
My abuela never used the word aparigraha. She didn't need to.
She watered her jasmine with unhurried hands, no urgency, no checking of bloom. I was ten, watching.
Who in your life has shown you wisdom they didn't have a word for?
#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga
#yogaphilosophy #nonattachment #familywisdom
#spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice #yogalife
My abuela never used the word aparigraha. She didn't need to.
She watered her jasmine with unhurried hands, no urgency, no checking of bloom. I was ten, watching.
Who in your life has shown you wisdom they didn't have a word for?
#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga
#yogaphilosophy #nonattachment #familywisdom
#spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice #yogalife
My first meditation teacher wore a floral apron and spoke only Spanish. She taught presence through watering plants.
Stillness, intention, silence. Meditation without the word.
Who taught you presence before you had words for it?
#meditation #practice
#grandmotherwisdom #presencepractice
#mindfulness #stillness #breathwork #familywisdom
I spent thousands traveling to India to learn meditation from gurus. My grandmother had been teaching me the same practice every summer in Granada.
I traveled to India. My grandmother taught me in Granada.
Who was your first teacher?
#meditation #authentic
#contemplativepractice #grandmotherwisdom
#mindfulness #culturalheritage #familywisdom #traditionalwisdom
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