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OFF THE MAT

Weekly Thought Offering:

Worrying is like praying for what you don't want.

-Paulo Coelho

Nothing bad ever happens.

-Gary Zukav

“The Lotus grows out of the mud. Without the mud, there is no Lotus. Suffering is a kind of mud, that we must use in order to grow the flower of Understanding and Love” - Thich Nat Hanh/ Vietnamese Monk

Weekly Journal Prompts:

In this moment..

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Weekly Mantras:

I am experiencing...

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Hello Sadhakas!

Happy Sunday and welcome to another Sadhaka Sunday email. As a reminder for those of you who are new to THE MAT with Nicole Katz, a Sadhaka is a person with a plan on a path (Sadhana) towards a spiritual goal.

If you are here reading this, then you my friend, are a Sadhaka

and this is your weekly Sadhana!

Ok People, this is a really big week OFF THE MAT. So big it felt like we all might need an arsenal of thought offerings to get through it. So this week I offer you three. I hope they bring you peace and an ability to bifurcate truth from fiction this week, whatever the outcome may be.

What is true?

Worrying is manifesting what you don't want so please for the collective good- stop foreseeing an outcome you don't want and use all that energy to imagine and envision what you do want.

Love is real- if you get stuck in a moment of hate this week, of rage, of anger- know that that is not who you truly are. For a moment you are caught in an ego lie that you are some how separate from the person/place/thing that is inciting the rage. In those moments- try, try, try to invite the lesson of learning how large your capacity for love is (infinite in fact) and attempt to take a step towards love.

Suffering is a means to peace, love and liberation.

Less than fun but if you find a true sense of suffering overtaking you, your family or our community, try to rest in the knowledge that unfortunately it is often suffering that brings us to our knees enough that we seek new and enlightened ways of being. Usually it is these moments that lead us to seek the Self.

Nothing bad ever happens.

When all else fails know that with enough distance from tragedy we can always spot the light that it brought with it. Look no further than your own life for proof. And ask for the wisdom and the grace to see the lesson sooner rather than later.

ON THE MAT this week we are in week one of supported shoulderstand (as it is practiced in the SYT lineage) and rightly so we are going to spend the first two weeks attempting to answer the question- how the hell do we open our heart when it's really hard to do so. We begin with an exploration of the shoulder girdle and attempt to awaken the key spot at the top of the sternum. Join me for the weekly flow, and our amazing teachers for LIVE classes, to find out more and

be supported by loving, like minded seekers.

We are here for you.

I am here for you.

ONLINE DOESN'T HAVE TO MEAN ALONE.

I'll see you on IG LIVE! :)

With great respect and love,

Nicole