Intermediate Nest
The Path deepens and the Journey Continues
Welcome seasoned traveler’s, well-traversed pilgrims, to the Intermediate Nest! This is a space and place for those of us who began our practice and our commitment to the path of yoga, many moons ago. This is a space and place, for those who have been traveling the path with a committed practice, a committed heart and steady relationship with yoga.
Close your eyes down and receive a full in breath and give out a complete out breath. Turn on your inner gaze, listen with your inner ear…only you know where you are on this journey and path of practice.
There is a moment when we have given our precious time, heart-felt energy and our lives to a commitment over and over again for a consistent amount of time. When we simply know we have arrived in a different “landscape”, an unknown area of the terrain. This is one way to know you have arrived in your practice and on your path to a deeper, more subtle part of the journey.
When the structure is in place, the foundation laid, and the boundaries set, the invitation and practice evolves into a blossoming and expansion, and an exploration of breaking the boundaries and finding the inner-teacher along with the outer teacher, merging these two energies, and allowing the practice to flow from a deeper, intuitive and less structured space.
Until we have a structure in place, until we know our healthy boundaries and how to keep our body-mind-heart safe and balanced, we can not traverse this part of the journey in the “good way”, and we can find our selves in injury, dis-ease and dysfunction.
After listening deeply, decide for your-self, if this Intermediate Nest, is your starting point for Root to Rise Yoga, or if visiting the Beginner’s Nest, is your starting point. It can also be appropriate to travel between the two nest’s, receiving guidance from both perspectives as you journey on and with the practice and path of yoga.
Here, in the Intermediate Nest, you will find content and Practice Flows that are designed, crafted and intended for those of us who are ready-in body, mind and heart-to practice from a deeper, more embodied experience of yoga, as well as, those who have the mental-emotional capacity to practice more advanced asana and pranayama. I’ve chosen to craft these flows with fewer alignment cues, less explanation of the postures (asana), and to chose a pace and sequencing that matches this part of the journey. As we deepen into the practice and travel further and further down the path of yoga, the terrain can become more challenging and more diverse. It is critically important that we have the correct “tools” and “gear” for traversing unknown territory, which means, its crucial to have put the time and physical energy into laying a clear and healthy foundation and knowing your physical, mental and emotional bodies deeply, before embarking further on down the path!
When we have arrived with proper “tools” and the correct “gear”, the path will guide you deeper and deeper within, and call you into practice beyond the mat. The depth of this path is un-ending, and for as deeply as you can travel inwards, so too can this path assist you in traveling outwards.
Please find content and Practice Flows here in the Intermediate Nest, for those of us with the “tools”, the “gear” and the full courage of a committed heart, to support you in rooting even deeper into your practice and rising with even more brilliance into your authentic Integrity, re-membering your natural state of Wholeness, and claiming and living your birthright of sustained Vitality!
Stay Tuned
our Roots are still growing!
Root to Rise Yoga is still growing our roots!! Please leave your email address, and I’ll notify you as soon as the Practice Flows are available for the Beginners Nest and Intermediate Nest! I’ll also be adding occasional articles, updates, and new sequences for the New and Full Moon cycles as we begin to rise into the full expression of Root to Rise Yoga!
If you don’t care to leave your email address, please do come back for a visit soon, so you can grow with me and rise into the fullest expression of your Vitality, Wholeness and Integrity through the path and practice of yoga.
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Let’s grow deep Roots, and Rise into the full expression of our heART!