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Sometimes we feel a little contracted, maybe tense or irritable, and that’s ok. Other times we feel open, light and blooming from the heart. Like the sky changes from a storm into a quiet morning, from a bright blue extension into a majestic sunset, our minds fluctuate from different levels of density. Our job is to be aware, to understand why we feel like that and to accept it with compassion, to love it with responsibility and then with love and kindness towards our humanity, letting go of what has no more purpose, so we transform into a radiant expression of ourselves. . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo ❤️🧡 . . #urdhvadhanurasana #ekapadaurdhvadhanurasana #sunsets #beach #yogaasana #yogajourney #svadhyaya #selfobservation #selfknowledge #journeytotheself #consciousawakening #practicekindnessandcompassion https://www.instagram.com/p/B066B-eHF58/?igshid=p1090n8ua35m

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I look for the silence that resides behind the words, the place in me where I have nothing to prove or explain, the space in which my body and my mind float in an ocean of stillness, and the waves have no other destiny than resting in its quietness. I look for the silence where my breath has no excitement, where my eyes are focused on that which can’t be seen, where my heart becomes alive by its light instead of its rhythm. . . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . #silence #cittavrttinirodhah #innerseer #selfobservation #selfknowledge #journeytotheself #yogajourney #chakorasana https://www.instagram.com/p/B0zEHRCHUrL/?igshid=17nlch7jwxq3f

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Saturday last week I got to share the first event of Ritualistic movement. It felt great to share this practice, this ritual. I’ve been developing it for sometime and it has the quality to be mutable, it keeps adapting and transforming according to my emotions, the weather, the space, the predominant elements. When i get to share it, all of these aspects are influenced in regards to the participants. Sometimes there’s complex sequences of movement inspired in Āsana, sometimes the breath takes the protagonist role, other times is the Mudras and the internal exploration through the acknowledgment of the elements. There is a magical process on which one get to experience more of that which we need and less of that which we expect. There’s always a possibility to heal, to become our own medicine through the exploration of our matter. But more transformation is up to come. Yesterday some good friends came to have dinner at the house and we open a Pandora box I had locked in the closet for many years: the sacred geometry. This used to be one of my obsessions and for some reason I put it a box and stopped studying about it. Now, after the passionate conversation we had yesterday, I feel a call to tap into it again but this time from a different perspective. I feel I want to explore movement and it’s connection with the golden spiral. So, be aware of the next event, there might be some intriguing geometrical flows, spiral orbits, rhythmic breathings, and inner medicine to be embodied. . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . #movement #ritual #organicmovement #intuitivemovement #geometricmovement #sacredmovement #ritualisticmovement #yogajourney #journeytotheself #innermedicine https://www.instagram.com/p/B0rylFonhLz/?igshid=t1cskh3uq2hk

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Movement and breath together work in such a mysterious way over our bodies and minds, reprograming our cells from the core. There is a metamorphosis of our old tendencies and patterns that takes place even without the requirement of our consciousness being present, we don’t have to think about it or intention it, it just happens. While we move, the network of high voltage cables inside of our spine is literally massaged, squeezed, stimulated, so the caterpillar starts to become a butterfly, our higher self starts to extend its wings to fly. If we consider the importance of the diaphragm in our lives, it wouldn’t be surprising to realize how the breath influences the way our body and mind work. The diaphragm dances with each breath and while it moves it’s programing everything related with our body functions, regulating the digestion and tremendously impacting the nervous system. It’s all beautifully connected, through a sublime thread that keeps us expanding in and out. . . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . #ustrasana #asana #yogajourney #movement #breath #transformation #backbend https://www.instagram.com/p/B0rRNgYH-1e/?igshid=bzqvlup9kj0l

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Welcome August!! 🥳☀️🦁💛 . . This is my favorite month!!! It’s the month of my birthday so it’s time to celebrate (well, it’s always time to celebrate and to honor life). But for some reason I feel super optimistic about this new cycle. Yesterday with the new moon new intentions were set and I feel a refreshing energy surrounding and inhabiting me, energy of creation, manifestation and expansion, energy of love. I feel so blessed about my life and about every little detail and gift, even about those moments that I feel challenged and discomforted because at the end those are the moments from which I grow the most. I can’t really ask for more in life. I share my life with the most amazing partner @b.p.wcislo from whom I learn and grow everyday and with whom I’m grateful to walk this blissful path. I do what I love and I do it with love. I am always driven to learn, grow and share. And most important, I breath and I’m alive! Tat Sat! May us all acknowledge the goodness in life everyday!!! . . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . . #gratitude #celebration #joy #sukha #bliss #ananda #namaste #anjalimudra #sunset #love #prema #yogajourney #consciousliving #svadhyaya #selfknowledge #practicekindnessandcompassion (at Playa Guiones) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0osvhbnXy0/?igshid=apbadfcoc3gw

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Ohhhh!!! It just feels so good when we stop caring about what others will think... it doesn’t mean to become selfish or indifferent, but just authentic and bold. Let’s be bold about who we are, without feeling afraid of being categorized as this or that, without being worried about how others will judge us. Without caring about what is normal, what is the rule, what is considered to be right. Let’s stop worrying about not being good enough, professional enough, interesting enough, and any other self projecting though through which we limit ourselves. We don’t have to agree in what we do, what we think or say, we just have to respect each other and cooperate to grow as a community. The beauty resides in the diversity. . . . 📸👉🏽 by my beloved @b.p.wcislo . . #beyou #practicebeingyou #ilovehandstands #svadhyaya #selfobservation #selfknowledge #yogajourney #handstand #adhomukhavrksasana in #padmasana #sunset (at Playa Guiones) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0lj3oBHO_K/?igshid=8r8y4fvx9ynq

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Hoy me levanté con un propósito, escribir sobre quién soy. Hay dos perspectivas desde donde podría responder esta pregunta. La primera es desde la consideración de que quien realmente somos, nuestra verdadera esencia, es inmutable e ilimitada, y no podría por ende someterse al escrutinio limitante de las palabras. La segunda perspectiva, viene desde lo efímero, desde lo que está en constante cambio y que insistentemente tendemos a confundir con lo que somos. Escribir sobre mi como identidad cambiante, implica referirme de alguna forma al pasado y al futuro, pues quien soy en este presente es una colección de resultados de procesos que se han transmutado y evolucionado, sumados a una visión que no tiene otra tierra que el futuro, una proyección para trazar una dirección. Cada vez que he escrito sobre quién soy ha sido por una necesidad no propia pero más bien profesional, de tener una biografía, un currículum. Hoy quiero permitirme escribir sobre mi desde un lugar de libertad, con el reto de no usar el pasado y el futuro, o al menos usarlos lo mínimo posible, y explorar así los aspectos que considero más trascendentes que títulos y certificados que he coleccionado. Así decidí responderme dos preguntas sencillas, con base en mi experiencia del mundo en el presente: 1. Cuales son mis rutinas y rituales? 2. Cuales son mis creencias y principios? (...) Te invito a leer en mi blog la respuesta que di a estas preguntas. . . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . #bio #svadhyaya #selfobservation #selfknowledge #journeytotheself https://www.instagram.com/p/B0gl1HtnATV/?igshid=1bpyg2ngwf3u0

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The feeling of gratitude is a seed to be cultivated everyday, to be watered and to which one has to give some rays of love. The non stop rhythm of our society makes us overlook what we have, what we are and so we live in a continuos dissatisfaction There is this urgency to get somewhere we don’t even know where it is. There is this need to continually pursue, to have, to posses, to accumulate, with who knows which reason. Sometimes we get to do something we consider amazing, for instance a posture, and immediately we are looking for what is next. Perhaps we feel an object through our senses, whether it is a flavor, the sensation of the breeze on the skin, the smell of the ocean, the colors of a glorious sky, and from these sources we experience pleasure, from which we want to possess the experienced object so we can control it and replicate its pleasurable feeling. Once we have it we want more, and when we have more, then we want something else. That’s the nature of how our mind relates to our senses. But when is it that we really take the time to actually enjoy whatever we experience, to experience it with other senses, to appreciate its other facets, to feel gratitude? My purpose is to learn to feel grateful for this very moment, to acknowledge the wholeness, the oneness and abundance in what already is. This practice requires some effort, the effort to withdraw ourselves from the race in which we live, the effort to make a real pause from the noise of our minds so we can experience silence. Then, within silence, we learn to experience the most radiant light: the light of feeling complete. . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . #light #gratitude #sunset #practicekindnessandcompassion #practicegratitude #silence #sadhana #svadhyaya #selfobservation #ragadvesha #sunset #handstand #vrschikasana (at Playa Guiones) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ZpRkpnRN6/?igshid=17efaooge4cjd

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What’s the point of being flexible on the mat if one can’t be flexible in life? I question myself everyday about this matter. I have the tendency to get too attached to my beliefs leaving little to no room to other perspectives, so my work everyday is to observe and be aware of this patterns, identify when they happen and understanding that there is no reason to become defensive. For some reason there is a part of our “I ness” that feels threaten when something doesn’t fit its structures. I believe the most important work we have is not the work of putting our leg behind the head, though it’s fun and enjoyable and also can serve as a mind tool in many ways, but the most important work goes beyond that. I believe that the path of consciousness asks us to become more compassionate and less judgmental, more grateful and less whining, more forgiving and less resentful, more together and less separated. I believe in the practice of devotion towards humans and all beings. I commit to the practice of love and kindness through actions, beyond the frontier of my words. . . . 📸👉🏽 photo by my beloved @b.p.wcislo . . . #kindness #love #devotion #compassion #maitri #karuna #practiceahimsa #practicekindnessandcompassion #yogajourney #selfobservation #selfknowledge #svadhyaya #visvamitrasana (at Fort DeSoto North Beach, St Petersburg, FL) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0XENoMH5X_/?igshid=1rs6b7vk2bypv

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There is an essential component of hand standing which I happened to learn late in my practice, for which I still have to put a lot of effort in correcting the misalignment. This component is the range of movement of the shoulder joint (Glenohumeral joint) during flexion. Shoulder flexion happens when we lift the arms up towards the sides of the head. I used to have little flexibility on my shoulders, which is the reason why my body had to compensate during hand stands by creating two curves: one in the ribs and thoracic spine and another on the lumbar spine. These curves leave very little room for stability as the muscles of the abdomen cannot completely activate when the spine is so curved. Since I understood how important this space was not only during handstands but during backbends, I started to pay attention to it. For some years I have been working on opening my shoulders, and I know there is still more space to be created but now I can feel how much stability and space is to be found by focusing on intelligent isolation of the work and then putting the pieces together. At the end, when I move I want to be able to feel good not only when I am moving but specially after it, otherwise my physical practices will not be any more the blissful medicine they are for my body and mind. . . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . . #yogaismymedicine #yogaasana #yogajourney #handstanding #adhomukhavrksasana #yogabiomechanics https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Ron8dHq2D/?igshid=xx1a1rjax1kx

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Now a days there is this big calling to be successful and to be a leader, I feel how it creates pressure, and I’m sure you feel it too. I understand how this call has awaken and empowered many to reconnect with their inner power, to be more confident. But I believe in something different than success and leadership. I believe in inspiration. I believe in collective awakening. I believe in a growing process that is more cooperative than hierarchical on which we all put our dose of sparkles to create the magic of transformation. I believe in empowering each other, not based on selfish desires but based on a truthful call to expand ourselves through love and compassion, through conscious enjoyment and kind thoughts, words and actions. I believe in giving our hand to others and walk together. Not in front, not behind, just together. I believe in sharing and appreciating. I believe in finding with love the areas of opportunity so we can help each other to grow and not to drown. Are you collaborating or competing? . . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . . #svadhyaya #selfobservation #collectiveawakening #collectiveconsciousness #cooperation #practicekindnessandcompassion https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Poq7AnSDk/?igshid=v4jf2ubj8bge

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🤸🏽‍♂️ PLAYFULNESS 🤸‍♀️ . . It’s so easy to forget about the playful quality of life. That’s why I like to handstand. When I start to take life too serious there is always an arm balance to shift my perspective and to remind me that inside of me there is always a child. For me, arm balances, beyond a family of āsanas are a field to play, to get lost in the experience of falling and standing, finding balance and loosing it. When sand, ocean and sunset get together, there is a playground in which I get immersed, the world becomes upside down and my heart becomes a child again. . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . #armbalance #handstand #adhomukhavrksasana #playfulness #sunset #handstandismyplayground #enjoylife #bliss #ānanda (at Playa Guiones) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0L8uw2HwW8/?igshid=1wx90e2sgb6ds

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How many Samskāras we carry that we don’t know... From these Samskāras we act without full consciousness and create an afflicted state. Many impressions remain latent in us, we do the work to attenuate them but at some point we shift our attention towards something else and so we forget about this impression or Samskāra, until at some point we get to believe we already dissolved it completely when what actually happened most of the times is that it became inactive and in some cases dormant or latent, like a seed that is stored and stays without sprouting, until it is exposed to sun, water and soil, then the seed grows. A similar thing happens with those behavioral impressions that are in a dormant state, they get to be exposed to the ��right” circumstances and suddenly they are able to grow, and so we realize they were not transcended, they were just controlled through discriminative discernment work. The events that we have experienced in life that have recorded impressions in our layers of behavior and emotional patterns require us to do the work, otherwise they will find the way to activate again. That’s why practice is something that happens 24 hours, 7 days a week, beyond the limits of our mat, our bodies and our physical practice. . . . Thank you @sparrow.rose for allowing us to play with this amazing veil/ poncho (I don’t really know how to call it lol). . . 📸👉🏽 photo by my beloved @b.p.wcislo . . . #samskaras #svadhyaya #selfobservation #selfknowledge #consciousnessawakening #backbending #sadhana #practicekindnessandcompassion https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JkfcjHYZy/?igshid=1g0mt8ko8qjom

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Finally, time to rest! ... well, not that easy! I do my best to keep balance, distributing my working time, my practice, my teaching, my enjoyment and my rest. But for different reasons this week it has been very difficult to have a proper sleep. Yesterday we drove to the beach and now that everything is ready and set up for relaxing my mind is having a hard time in slowing down. I take a deep inhalation and travel inside, to feel my inner currents. I feel my chest with this willing to “do”, impatient and agitated. I observe and acknowledge the nature of citta, whatever you repeat, it creates an impression, a pattern, and it becomes the first reaction available. This is what Patañjali calls Samskāras, on which he adds that Samskāras are to be removed by building new Samskāras. Time to reset, or reprogram my mind. To re-teach my mind to pause not only when it’s sitting on the mat but to be in silence just for the sake of silence. . . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . #reset #pause #silence #relax #svadhyaya #selfobservation #selfknowledge #yogajourney #practicepracticepractice https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Gjj2PnSCX/?igshid=1k2j67tz21n6c

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I bow to all the amazing people that has passed through my life and added some grains of sand to this infinite ocean of growing. Some have pushed me, broken me in pieces, released me in the emptiness, others have made me face my dark side and demons. Others have caught me on the way down, some have helped me to collect the pieces and others to reshape me and made me born again from the ashes. Some have kindly turn the lights on the dark path, and others have smiled when everything looked like crying. I bow to all, the ones who have come to me as teachers, students, friends, guides, family, to the ones that have stayed and the ones who have left... I bow to the light that resides within. Happy Guru Purnima! #namaste #gurupurnima https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz__5opnsX4/?igshid=15yaf0udrovgy

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I believe that one of our biggest problems as humans is that we glorify other humans as if they were gods. In our search of life purpose and meaning we end up developing a desperate need to admire someone, in this adventure we overlook on their flawless and we idolize them, expecting them to be divine with no room for mistakes. I believe it is a beautiful practice to learn to acknowledge the good, to recognize beauty, though we fail to notice the humanity and even more important, we neglect to accept the other aspects as part of the whole. We build this image about someone based on what we want and need to see in them, and so we develop expectations. Once these expectations are not fulfilled, or even worse, when they behave the opposite to our idea of them, then we feel deceived. Patanjali says that even one who has achieved Samadhi, on its cognitive state (which he calls Samprajñata Samadhi), still has the latent seeds, which might be controlled through the practice, though once the yogui gets distracted from their inside work and exposed to stimulus which nurture these seeds, they will awake again, the seeds will become active, the tendencies that were in latent state will come to life one more time. So here we are, humans, doing our work everyday, committing mistakes, some bigger than others, learning from our mistakes, and doing the work to transcend them again. In the path of learning to scorch the seeds of suffering we will deceive many, and we will be deceived by some, we will judge and will be judged. Perhaps one day we will awake and stop dreaming on the illusion that we are this gross matter, and we will learn to see beyond and live in true compassion and loving kindness. . . . 📸👉🏽 @b.p.wcislo . . #svadhyaya #selfobservation #selfknowledge #karuna #consciousnessawakening #yogajourney #yogapractice #sadhana #vrschikasana #practicekindnessandcompassion https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz8bwKCnRPh/?igshid=xsp84k3cjnvs

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Suddenly I loose inspiration to post and I start questioning what’s the purpose of all these efforts to keep an account active and an audience engaged. Is it really that I need the social media in order to market my workshops and courses? Is it that my students will forget about me if I don’t keep posting? Would someone come to my classes if I don’t promote them through social media? Is it really that I need it to share thoughts and insights about the practice? If I write a blog would someone read it if I don’t promote it? Is it that I just need the reinforcing power of outer acceptance to nurture my narcissist instincts? ... and the questions keep coming out to the surface and I start to acknowledge how much the times have changed, and with the times, myself. I could resist to change and try to answer these questions by removing myself completely from social media or I could just accept, embrace and surrender to it, without loosing myself into its flow, without being carried by its currents. This questioning state comes to me randomly throughout the year, it visits me and makes feel completely out of inspiration to keep posting or sharing through social media. Sometimes it lasts one or two days, there have been times where it has lasted a whole week. Everything can be seen from so many different angles, interpreted through multiple lenses. I can only acknowledge it, observe the questions and decide. From questions like these, some more profound than social media matters, I reinvent myself, I am reborn, I reorganize my perspective and change the glasses of my thoughts. . . . 📸👉🏽 photo by my amazing partner and love of my life who is always supporting my projects, craziness and questions @b.p.wcislo . . #svadhyaya #selfobservation #selfstudy #collectiveawakening #consciousawakening #ekapadasirsasana #yogajourney #practicekindnessandcompassion https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3BwFLnoYX/?igshid=1otxt11crhcq5