Are You Stressed or Strong?
Dearest Sadhaka (a person on a path to joy),
It is with greatest joy that I welcome you to the first official Sadhaka Sunday email. Every Sunday (paying member or not) you will receive an email from me with a brief thought offering. This thought offering is meant to be a simple concept or idea that you can put into practice and explored throughout the week. Whenever you feel like you are being dragged down into darkness by fear/anxiety/pain, think of the thought offering as a life raft that can help to pull you back up into the light, into faith, into a space where you can move and be from love. These principles apply to all areas of your life and can be used in all of them to bring clarity and more JOY.
For those of you who are Monthly Members or who have the Monthly Membership+ Sundays are the days to log in and get your new content for the week!
Here we go!
OFF THE MAT
Weekly Thought Offering:
"Stress is the product of seeing the unknowns of life through the lens of fear. Strength is the product of seeing the unknowns of life through a lens of love."
Journal Prompt:
What am I feeling? What lens am I acting from? Do I want more or
less of this feeling in my life? Do I want to change?
Mantra:
I welcome love into my thoughts and actions. I welcome strength.
ON THE MAT we welcome a new pose!! Garudasana (Eagle pose) kicks off THE MAT with Nicole Katz launch month and with good reason. This pose is a closed and twisted balance- and boy isn't life a twisted balance right now! We are all straddling normal life and impending doom at any second. That is a lot to carry. Even when we are going about seemingly banal everyday tasks, part of our spirit is trying to process the reality of the world we are living in and to varying degrees worrying about. How are we going to survive? How are we going to take care of our families and (I hope) our communities at large? So, we take to THE MAT and practice how to do this. How to choose openness and faith even when there seems to be none in sight. How to come from a place of listening and love even when there seems to
be none in sight.
This week in the body we are looking at the arm variation. Often people choose an arm variation that is not right for them and they end up adding stress to an already challenging pose. This week we will change that!
With great respect and love,
Nicole
