The Evidence of your Practice | Part 4: A Discerning Self

To reveal and unravel our stories is also to liberate ourselves from being stuck in the same grooves or patterning. This is a pathway towards new possibilities, and deeper layers of understanding.

Part 4 of a series of reflections on how our practice can flow into our lives - and how we can direct these ripples conscientiously.

practice, yoga, conscientious living, community, meditationLucy Lawes11 February 2020Estuary Yoga Spacemindfulness, generosity, perspective, gratitude, yoga, community, sukha, svadhyaya, witness, vidyaComment

The Evidence of your Practice | Part 3: The Witnessing Self

To re-frame a situation through a clearer lens of conscious awareness is to become the witnessing Self.

Part 3 of a series of reflections on how our practice can flow into our lives - and how we can direct these ripples conscientiously.

practice, yoga, conscientious living, community, meditationLucy Lawes7 January 2020Estuary Yoga Spacemindfulness, generosity, perspective, gratitude, yoga, community, sukha, svadhyaya, witness, vidyaComment

The Evidence of your Practice | Part 2: Agency in your Choices

Cultivating agency in your choices. Part 2 of a series of reflections on how our practice can flow into our lives - and how we can direct these ripples conscientiously.

practice, yoga, conscientious living, community, meditationLucy Lawes30 December 2019Estuary Yoga Spacemindfulness, generosity, perspective, gratitude, yoga, community, sukha, svadhyayaComment

The Evidence of your Practice | Part 1: Manas, the Mind

To reflect on how and why we practice is to investigate how these transformations ripple into our lives, and all the lives we intersect with. This is svadhyaya - a form of self-study.

Part 1 of a series of reflections on how our practice can flow into our lives - and how we can direct these ripples conscientiously.

practice, yoga, conscientious living, community, meditationLucy Lawes24 December 2019Estuary Yoga Spacemindfulness, generosity, perspective, gratitude, yoga, community, sukha, svadhyayaComment

Your Natural Self: Open, Present Awareness

'Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize you're always standing at the centre of the world.'

- Pema Chödron

On coming home, moving forward, and the challenging ease of simplicity.

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We live, work and co-create on the sacred lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Worrong people, of the Kulin Nation.

With deep gratitude, respect and commitment, we endeavour for an on-going practice of solidarity and reciprocity with land, sea and sky, informed by the guidance of its innate harmonious wisdom.

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.