Embracing Freedom from an Intention-based Yoga Practice

With Fourth of July right around the corner, our focus this month is cultivating intention through the practice of yoga, unleashing freedom both within ourselves and in our community. The practice of intention is created when we honor the patterns and habits of our daily routine, such as the mundane tasks of just going through the motions in life, and transform these habitual patterns into actions that create real change both on and off the mat.

A Communal Practice

The practice of intention is communal; the change doesn’t just occur within ourselves. This intentional shift also affects anyone that we come into contact with on an energetic level. As we take practices of coping and surviving and transform them into rituals of thriving and flourishing, we honor our internal intentions and make these inward intentions external by offering it to the world around us. 

Svatantrya

Our teachings this month will hone in on the concept of freedom as it relates to svatantrya, the self-loomed freedom that we are born with. This is the idea that we choose what or who we bind to in life through the power of choice and the practice of intention.

In Closing

May our choices reach for the highest good by doing good for goodness sake with no strings attached. May we make the appropriate decisions in life and access the future we desire where we uphold the freedom, integrity and decency in our everyday actions. Let us call upon the intrinsic core of goodness and dig deep within ourselves to unearth, excavate and unfurl our most potent intentions for the good of all humanity. Let us share in the interconnectedness of life to remember that we may be different, but never separate from each other. May our intentions set us free and draw us closer in this shared humanity through love, joy and compassion.

We’ll see you on the mat!

-Matt and Stacey