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Samtosha (contentment) invites you to open your heart and practice unconditional love and living. 2020 has been an unprecedented year of unknowns, distress, fear, and change. Forgive yourself if you’ve wished it were different. Rather than scattering your energy and resisting what is, what can you embrace here wholeheartedly and feel grateful for now?
Samtosha is the second niyama of the Sadhana Pada, book two of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. Santosha, a daily gratitude practice, states that supreme joy is accessed through contentment. The samtosha yoga sutra is 11.42,santosad anuttamah sukha-labhah, or as Patanjali states,from contentment arises unparalleled happiness. Samtosha is a dynamic state of being.
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My samtosha practice helped me find my center and embody the energy of equanimity, the ability to be at peace with whatever is. I learned to live from the source of my being, present here and now instead of nowhere. As the sutra says, its result is complete happiness. It is a shift in perspective from the outer to the inner. Samtosha is a journey of resistance that comes with a satisfaction unlinked from any unsteady, changing, fleeting outer world of temporal pursuits.
This practice invites you to practice maintaining equanimity, remaining in your peaceful center, regardless of life circumstances that arise. Remember, equanimity doesn’t mean that life is always perfect. Patiently cultivate contentment in all areas of your life and watch the resistance and frustration evaporate. The more established you are in this state of contentment, the less likely you are to be pulled or pushed from the still neutrality of your core, where you comprehend the temporal nature of material things.
Through a devoted practice of gratitude, that comes from deep within your heart, complete joy and unconditional love may arise. So, embrace life exactly as it is. Let go of demands that life must meet your conditions before you can embrace it fully. To live in gratitude, beyond limitation, is to create the space and stillness needed to appreciate all of our blessings with clarity.
Om.
By Zia Estrella; All Rights Reserved @2020
By Zia Estrella; All Rights Reserved @2020
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Julie Bertagna
Julie Bertagna is a 500 RYT and certified Baptiste yoga teacher who teaches Baptiste power yoga and recovery yoga at Namaspa Yoga & Massage, as well as in her home studio, The Yoga Loft, in Bend. She is a mother and a grandmother, she loves the outdoors, and she still pursues dental hygiene one day a week! In the summer, she spends time at her partner's retreat venue, Vernonia Springs, which puts on retreats and special events. More information about Julie’s offerings can be found on her website: juliebertagnayoga.com
Zia Estrella
An exotic stargazer from the land of the intuitive ones, Zia embodies physicality, possibility, and empowerment in lighthearted playfulness. She loves the truth with all her heart and lives it with all her being. She grounds down into her deep dark Taína roots to rise. Humbled to practice and study yoga since 2007, she lives in wholeness, giving full credit to each and every emotion she experiences while embracing the power of the now moment. Shifting her perspective to realize the eternal inner light within is her Dharma. She got turned upsidedown on the True North path of yoga and she remembered her Prem - TruthLoveBeauty. This is her deepest source of empowerment, creativity, joy and peace. May she transform darkness into light through her own journey and serve all beings everywhere in truth, love and beauty. Learn more at www.ziayoga.io
Heidi Drake
Heidi Drake discovered yoga at the suggestion of her chiropractor and founded Downward Dog Yoga & Wellness Studio in Sunriver, Oregon in 2017, after obtaining her RYT-250 aerial yoga instructor certification from Aerial Yoga Academy. A lifelong dancer who taught jazz, hip hop, and tap at Sunriver Dance Academy for 9 years, Heidi realized that she needed something a bit gentler on her 50+ year-old body and was pleasantly shocked to find a passion for the strength, flexibility, and mind-body-soul connection yoga offers. When she’s not at the studio or writing, Heidi’s favorite place is on the Little Deschutes river, in her own backyard, with her husband, two teenage daughters, and pack of 4 dogs.
Hannah Parks
Practicing yoga is a deeply personal and professional endeavor for Hannah. She discovered yoga as a way to manage her own chronic pain - and it changed her life. As a social worker, she is passionate about helping people be the best that they can be, and she uses yoga to empower clients in their journey of finding balance in their own lives. She is a lover, a traveler, a social justice warrior, and a curious cat.
