WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.850 Hmm! 2 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:05.440 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Welcome to our pilgrimage in Prudet 3 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:11.680 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for October. I'm so so happy 4 00:00:11.810 --> 00:00:23.189 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to be here with you and for some folks. This might be your last for other folks. You're continuing. 5 00:00:23.230 --> 00:00:30.660 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I wanted to spiral back around, no matter where you are to 6 00:00:30.830 --> 00:00:33.619 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exploring Ahimsa this month. 7 00:00:34.090 --> 00:00:36.340 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so we will. 8 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:40.270 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll begin in a moment with a practice. 9 00:00:40.350 --> 00:00:55.960 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): But I wanted to invite you in the chat to drop something that. like an act of kindness that you have done for yourself, or a way that you've cared for yourself. 10 00:00:57.590 --> 00:00:58.970 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 11 00:01:00.070 --> 00:01:07.570 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can also drop if someone else has done something kind or an act of Ahimsa from someone else towards you. 12 00:01:08.090 --> 00:01:10.319 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So dropping in 13 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:17.510 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): care for yourself 14 00:01:17.700 --> 00:01:23.289 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and care that someone has given you, and welcome. And if you're up for having your 15 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:33.039 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your videos on. That's amazing. If you prefer not. That's also okay. It just enabled the 16 00:01:33.130 --> 00:01:38.249 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): closed captioning. So if you would like to see that you can. 17 00:01:38.740 --> 00:01:40.430 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 18 00:01:42.130 --> 00:01:43.000 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 19 00:01:46.590 --> 00:01:47.490 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): hmm 20 00:01:52.490 --> 00:01:56.510 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): went to go see a Chinese herbalist to get some herbal medicine. 21 00:01:56.610 --> 00:02:06.320 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): The air finally cleared allergy season, and I took a walk around the water, the water, and she's the same. Yes, I so relate to that, Karen. Same here 22 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:15.800 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I took a beautiful hike and long bubble bath at the start of the week, which felt very nourishing. Oh, that sounds amazing! And so a reminder that 23 00:02:16.180 --> 00:02:23.720 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): our self care can be big things, and it can also be little things like having water keeping yourself nourished and hydrated. 24 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:35.829 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so for folks just coming in, we're sharing acts of a him set acts of care for ourselves. 25 00:02:36.140 --> 00:02:46.019 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and maybe reflecting on acts of care that others have done for us, or that we are doing or have done in the world. 26 00:02:47.750 --> 00:02:48.600 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm. 27 00:02:51.820 --> 00:02:52.650 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): okay. 28 00:02:54.170 --> 00:02:55.830 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 29 00:02:56.940 --> 00:02:59.509 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just take a moment while folks drop 30 00:03:15.600 --> 00:03:25.980 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yes. Arriving in this space is an act of kindness to myself. Thank you for creating it. My partner is helping me on a project this evening. Oh, it's beautiful! 31 00:03:26.060 --> 00:03:38.500 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): My roommate, where my roommate cooked me dinner the other night. Oh, it's beautiful. taking a little rest before coming on this call. It's so beautiful. Hmm. 32 00:03:39.500 --> 00:03:53.389 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): okay. So wherever you are invitation, if you'd like to have full of water, and I put I have these big stones that I got, and I put stone in my water, just cause it felt. 33 00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:11.090 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and feeling the need for some grounding, so you're welcome to have water in any form. It could also be water in your water bottle doesn't have to be outside of you. Candle in any form fleeing or fire. And also, if you don't have these, that's okay. 34 00:04:11.610 --> 00:04:15.779 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And I'll take a moment for you to get those things. 35 00:04:20.440 --> 00:04:21.410 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm! 36 00:04:25.410 --> 00:04:31.439 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And as you're getting those things. You also might want to journal. 37 00:04:32.980 --> 00:04:36.710 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'd love to invite you to participate 38 00:04:36.980 --> 00:04:38.579 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with Ahimsa. 39 00:04:38.670 --> 00:04:42.490 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So Ahimsa adds non harm 40 00:04:42.770 --> 00:04:45.720 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as care for oneself. 41 00:04:46.230 --> 00:04:48.989 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): but not just like surface level. 42 00:04:49.460 --> 00:05:05.950 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): right? Like what calls us into Yoga is that there's something deeper. There's something more there for us. There's a way that we can express ourselves more fully or way that we can share gifts more with the world that we can help. 43 00:05:06.440 --> 00:05:12.169 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you know. And I think maybe not all of us. I don't want to generalize or speak for everyone, but 44 00:05:12.410 --> 00:05:31.309 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I know I have a really deep longing to like, do good to try to help make the world a better place, and if I could, you know II don't have the delusion that I can impact, say like climate change or racial inequity, but to like, try to move things in the right direction. 45 00:05:31.550 --> 00:05:38.919 And I think many of us that are here probably share that wish right in in whatever realm that is the most 46 00:05:39.510 --> 00:05:46.580 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): salient or most close to you. that we're here practicing. 47 00:05:46.620 --> 00:05:53.729 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in part because our own liberation, our own care for ourselves, is bound up 48 00:05:53.950 --> 00:06:00.000 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with others liberation, and is bound up with making the world a better place. And so 49 00:06:02.380 --> 00:06:16.350 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we share that. And there's something beautiful about being in a space of folks who, though our pathways might be different and our actions might be different, and even our practices might look really different. We share that 50 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:23.210 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): kind of ground level of values, of care for ourselves, care for the world. With Yoga. 51 00:06:23.840 --> 00:06:35.650 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It is no small thing. It's no small thing to be in a space with other people who share that that path and that passion. 52 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:44.430 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so, just taking a moment to acknowledge that you're here for you, you're also not alone like you're here with other folks. 53 00:06:44.750 --> 00:07:00.040 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and there's many folks watching the recordings who are also here with us energetically, and then the ripples out to people in your life, in your world, to your community, to your chosen family, 54 00:07:00.450 --> 00:07:11.900 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your ancestors, the healed and whole ones that you want to welcome in and bring all of the supporters really for your care 55 00:07:11.980 --> 00:07:15.129 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and your message and your mission 56 00:07:15.260 --> 00:07:22.979 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): into the space with you. So we'll take a moment to practice. and what we see 57 00:07:26.340 --> 00:07:27.750 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): like 58 00:07:31.170 --> 00:07:34.739 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): do invite you if you have it. 59 00:07:35.820 --> 00:07:37.560 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to light your candle. 60 00:07:43.650 --> 00:07:45.520 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and as you're lighting it. 61 00:07:46.380 --> 00:07:49.429 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you're connecting to that intention of 62 00:07:51.880 --> 00:07:53.819 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Ahimsa, as love 63 00:07:55.760 --> 00:07:56.770 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): has. 64 00:08:02.070 --> 00:08:04.760 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): care for yourself, care for the world. 65 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:17.229 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then you can have your bowl of water close, or your glass of water close, if you. 66 00:08:18.760 --> 00:08:20.620 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): If you have your candle going. 67 00:08:23.090 --> 00:08:26.689 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we'll take a moment and stare into the flame. 68 00:08:29.950 --> 00:08:32.599 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and there's a few ways you can do this. 69 00:08:32.909 --> 00:08:37.120 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Let me see if I can hold this so you can see it in case you want to use mine. 70 00:08:37.570 --> 00:08:44.779 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): One is staring the way normally would, or gazing the way you normally would, while blinking 71 00:08:44.910 --> 00:08:49.350 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): another is not not blinking. 72 00:08:50.380 --> 00:08:54.260 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so staring at the flame and allowing your eyes maybe to water. 73 00:08:55.410 --> 00:08:58.310 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): seeing what arises 74 00:08:59.140 --> 00:09:01.069 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deep breath in 75 00:09:02.500 --> 00:09:04.239 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and deep breath out. 76 00:09:08.180 --> 00:09:11.490 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and if you don't have a flame and you don't want to lick in there 77 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:17.640 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): screen, you can just take in the ambient light in your environment. 78 00:09:26.510 --> 00:09:29.170 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): reflecting on the universality of this 79 00:09:30.520 --> 00:09:31.540 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): flame. 80 00:09:39.710 --> 00:09:43.920 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's symbolism as a light of knowledge. 81 00:09:45.560 --> 00:09:49.900 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): a light of insight that exists within each of us 82 00:09:51.460 --> 00:09:52.920 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as agnee 83 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.070 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): sacred fire. 84 00:10:01.410 --> 00:10:05.890 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and if you prefer now, if you'd like, you can let your eyes close 85 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:09.489 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your gaze. Go soft. 86 00:10:12.810 --> 00:10:15.320 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): visualize that flame within 87 00:10:22.040 --> 00:10:24.139 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the light of Yoga. 88 00:10:36.630 --> 00:10:38.050 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): What are 89 00:10:41.380 --> 00:10:44.559 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the threads, the relationship 90 00:10:45.210 --> 00:10:49.210 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or relationships that you're starting 91 00:10:51.040 --> 00:10:56.599 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or nurturing or deepening? And how is Yoga supporting you 92 00:10:57.770 --> 00:11:00.290 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with care for yourself? 93 00:11:01.780 --> 00:11:03.319 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Care for others 94 00:11:06.590 --> 00:11:08.070 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): here in the world. 95 00:11:10.900 --> 00:11:11.840 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and that 96 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:18.320 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in some bypassing way that ignores obstacles. There's so many obstacles. 97 00:11:18.540 --> 00:11:22.129 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): internal ones ones around us. 98 00:11:24.870 --> 00:11:27.080 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): environmental, systemic 99 00:11:30.180 --> 00:11:36.629 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in a way that practicing Ahimsa can feel quite radical and revolutionary. 100 00:11:41.830 --> 00:11:50.010 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): How might you find or create support in spite of. or even because of, those obstacles 101 00:11:56.630 --> 00:12:05.020 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and maybe visualizing now a flame in your mind's eye. the sacred fire, the homa. 102 00:12:09.630 --> 00:12:15.079 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and this homa might be in a place in nature that 103 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:17.260 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you visualize. 104 00:12:19.540 --> 00:12:29.500 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connected through its light to the flame of knowledge. is lit by Yoga practitioners thousands of years ago. 105 00:12:31.510 --> 00:12:33.710 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and that is still burning 106 00:12:34.880 --> 00:12:37.540 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that same fire. 107 00:12:38.610 --> 00:12:41.680 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And there are Yoga 108 00:12:46.180 --> 00:12:47.440 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): adapt 109 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:51.480 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): masters, practitioners, students 110 00:12:51.610 --> 00:12:58.230 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): around that fire right now, in this very moment, chanting the same 111 00:12:59.940 --> 00:13:03.740 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): mantra that was chanted thousands of years ago. 112 00:13:03.970 --> 00:13:06.769 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and that is chanted around that fire 113 00:13:07.660 --> 00:13:10.620 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 24 HA day without end. 114 00:13:16.170 --> 00:13:20.690 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): This is a living practice. one that is 115 00:13:22.180 --> 00:13:24.860 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the deep honor to 116 00:13:26.630 --> 00:13:31.649 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): be part of, and to be touched by and to be able to share. 117 00:13:58.570 --> 00:14:00.610 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so, taking your place 118 00:14:02.370 --> 00:14:03.460 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in 119 00:14:04.620 --> 00:14:06.949 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): circle around the fire 120 00:14:07.770 --> 00:14:10.780 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in your mind's eye, maybe feeling 121 00:14:10.820 --> 00:14:12.580 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the support of 122 00:14:13.560 --> 00:14:20.300 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): don't have to do this alone. I have all these other beings, past, present, future. 123 00:14:20.400 --> 00:14:24.279 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): holding this practice with me, supporting me. 124 00:14:25.040 --> 00:14:28.270 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and whom I'm also supporting 125 00:14:44.570 --> 00:14:48.200 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): from a chance that are chanted vary. 126 00:14:49.330 --> 00:14:58.869 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's not always when particular mantra. The one that feels called to chant now 127 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:10.839 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): is the mantra of removing and also engaging with or working with any obstacles that might be there. I know 128 00:15:10.850 --> 00:15:17.419 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that has come up for many of us environmentally lately, and perhaps also personally. 129 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:21.060 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so we'll free chant the 130 00:15:21.210 --> 00:15:26.669 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): ganesh mantra out loud. Let me put it in the chat in case 131 00:15:27.280 --> 00:15:34.080 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you would like to see it. It is home. Gum 132 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.160 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Ganapati, Namaha. 133 00:15:38.280 --> 00:15:42.479 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): home, gum Ganapati, Namaha. 134 00:15:43.710 --> 00:15:45.000 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 135 00:15:48.880 --> 00:15:55.060 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can keep your eyes closed or your gaze soft. can have your arms 136 00:15:55.180 --> 00:15:58.890 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): out. Be moving, or have your hands together at your heart. 137 00:16:00.060 --> 00:16:02.860 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll chant it 9 times. 138 00:16:03.710 --> 00:16:13.459 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): You can chant aloud, or receive, or in your mind's eye, and I'll do it once, just so you can hear what the chant sounds like. 139 00:16:23.050 --> 00:16:24.839 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Chat together. 140 00:16:25.910 --> 00:16:32.569 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh, gan Ganapati, Namaha! 141 00:16:47.310 --> 00:16:53.780 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh, God! Ganapite. Namaha! 142 00:17:01.410 --> 00:17:14.340 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh Gaum Ganapati! Namaha! Oh go Ganapati near my heart 143 00:17:15.069 --> 00:17:20.399 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): oh, Gaana Patti! Namaha! 144 00:17:42.690 --> 00:17:44.839 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Knowing the energy of 145 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:57.909 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): stay, full. self-care. removing of obstacles, but also acknowledging the obstacles that help us grow. 146 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:13.890 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And now I'm taking sometime we'll do a little bit of movement. and 147 00:18:16.930 --> 00:18:28.089 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'll invite you into a cobra shape. So your choice, whether you're on the earth or on your tear, can take your hands to the side of your tear and stretch your chest up. 148 00:18:28.180 --> 00:18:36.470 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Turn up! We're coming to a time, and Vedic 149 00:18:36.610 --> 00:18:39.450 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and ritual that 150 00:18:39.850 --> 00:18:49.590 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): acknowledges the snake, and then curving down, so maybe moving at your own pace, and in your own way, inhaling and arching up. 151 00:18:50.650 --> 00:18:57.700 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then exhaling and rolling down, facing down a form of 152 00:18:57.760 --> 00:18:59.150 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): forward fold. 153 00:19:01.280 --> 00:19:04.829 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): moving in your own way, maybe using chair 154 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:06.890 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): arms or your chair 155 00:19:06.900 --> 00:19:11.669 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): be on the earth, maybe standing. There's no way to do this wrong 156 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:28.089 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): stretch to your spine. your chest and throat. 157 00:19:36.120 --> 00:19:37.890 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): There's something very 158 00:19:38.820 --> 00:19:44.739 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): magical and lucky about this time. Snakes are considered to be 159 00:19:46.360 --> 00:19:52.070 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): really good luck. and also kind of divinely 160 00:19:53.250 --> 00:19:55.630 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): timed and inspired to 161 00:19:56.460 --> 00:20:09.670 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): almost magically help remove or shift them, an obstacle from something challenging into something supportive, or something that benefits that next level of your growth. So 162 00:20:09.810 --> 00:20:17.660 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you don't necessarily need to have anything in mind. But just have that intention of transformation. 163 00:20:21.690 --> 00:20:37.990 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then you can begin to move your arms into this, if you'd like, bring your fingertips to your shoulders and bring your shoulder blades back towards one another, and then, rounding, bring the movement from our upper backs more into our mid back 164 00:20:38.190 --> 00:20:39.440 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and heart 165 00:20:41.670 --> 00:20:43.549 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): opening your heart. 166 00:20:44.020 --> 00:20:47.539 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's protecting. The ultimate act 167 00:20:48.020 --> 00:21:00.289 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): of for ourselves is really just the clarity to know when we want to have those boundaries with love, and when we can, we want to be open hearted and share. 168 00:21:03.190 --> 00:21:08.920 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And again, there's no right answer. There's just what's right for you in this moment. 169 00:21:16.080 --> 00:21:22.720 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you can keep your fingers on your shoulders, or some of us might want to move our arms back 170 00:21:22.850 --> 00:21:32.200 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and move our arms forward. making that movement a little bit bigger, or maybe making circles with your arms. 171 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:42.260 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): might hear some cracking yours or mine. It's all welcome. 172 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:48.349 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): One more this way. 173 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:52.210 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 174 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:57.660 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale our arms up and twist to one side. 175 00:21:57.930 --> 00:21:59.060 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): bringing 176 00:21:59.780 --> 00:22:07.220 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and back behind you. If you're on your chair you can see mine hooked over my chair, or if you don't have a chair, you can place your head on your back. 177 00:22:07.900 --> 00:22:09.530 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): but for all of us 178 00:22:09.600 --> 00:22:18.759 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we're inhaling and twisting from our bellies, then our chest, then our chin, then our eyes twist all the way around. 179 00:22:20.050 --> 00:22:22.699 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and if your breath is constricted. 180 00:22:23.270 --> 00:22:27.139 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): perhaps coming out a little bit, letting your breath deep in. 181 00:22:28.180 --> 00:22:33.119 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and on the next exhale softening back into his wrist. 182 00:22:49.450 --> 00:22:51.600 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): One more breath on the side 183 00:22:54.680 --> 00:22:58.649 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): next inhale can bring our arms up and around 184 00:22:59.020 --> 00:23:03.730 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): over to the other side, and really taking your time 185 00:23:04.130 --> 00:23:07.849 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): on each side to 186 00:23:08.670 --> 00:23:13.530 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to let yourself twist into 187 00:23:13.610 --> 00:23:20.749 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): this stretch, so inhaling and exhaling, twisting from your guts, from your belly. 188 00:23:20.850 --> 00:23:21.940 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Test 189 00:23:21.950 --> 00:23:23.960 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 10 eyes. 190 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:58.589 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one more breath on this side 191 00:24:03.140 --> 00:24:07.030 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and on your next. Inhale back up. 192 00:24:08.030 --> 00:24:14.600 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then hands come down and listen closely to this. We're gonna take our hands and place them on the top of our ears. 193 00:24:14.670 --> 00:24:18.980 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just pulling your ear back and away, if that feels okay for you. 194 00:24:19.090 --> 00:24:25.090 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then moving your fingertips down your ears back in a way. 195 00:24:28.360 --> 00:24:38.580 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And this can sometimes be done in Malasana. And so, if you'd like, you can find a way to bring your legs into it so that might be like 196 00:24:39.020 --> 00:24:48.410 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): bringing your feet onto your chair. If you're sitting on a chair and squatting in between them, bringing your hands back to massage your ears. 197 00:24:51.580 --> 00:24:56.380 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): This process increases our awareness and alertness. 198 00:25:04.750 --> 00:25:26.009 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and now we've kind of warmed up our ears a bit. You're gonna take your right thumb and forefinger, and slide smile. I don't know if I'm mirroring you, but your thumb and forefinger, and place it on the lobe of the opposite ear, and then switch there and just massage 199 00:25:26.170 --> 00:25:29.760 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the your earlobes with opposites 200 00:25:29.860 --> 00:25:31.950 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): opposite hands. 201 00:25:35.190 --> 00:25:37.210 Let's continue to breathe here. 202 00:25:39.760 --> 00:25:51.890 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So modern neuroscience. And like I've done, I used to teach elementary school, and we do these like brain breaks. And a lot of it was about these cross lateral moving across the midline. 203 00:25:52.670 --> 00:25:58.150 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Ways of moving to stimulate, wake up the brain. 204 00:25:58.370 --> 00:26:18.279 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And these are practices that are ancient. You know that Melasana, the book, Corona. This is a practice has been written about and is used in Ayurvedic and cleansing kreas as well, too. It's almost like flossing our brains. 205 00:26:18.450 --> 00:26:21.589 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then, when you're ready, you can release. 206 00:26:22.020 --> 00:26:29.140 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale, stretch your arms out, and then option to bring your arms back behind you, clasp your hands 207 00:26:29.220 --> 00:26:32.170 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): once again. Kind of a counter shape. 208 00:26:32.250 --> 00:26:52.640 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): For some. You might want to so couple of different choices here, so you can bring your your hands behind your back and lean forward. You could bring your hands behind your neck and lean forward. So we're going into a forward fold. With a little bit of stretching through our shoulders, and you get to titrate and determine how 209 00:26:52.640 --> 00:27:07.269 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): how that is for you. But all that really matters here is that your head and your energy is moving down towards the earth, so receiving that earth based energy of support, of care. 210 00:27:13.260 --> 00:27:18.540 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhaling my heart is open and free 211 00:27:20.630 --> 00:27:22.130 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhaling. 212 00:27:23.870 --> 00:27:26.680 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I receive and give love. 213 00:27:28.110 --> 00:27:32.779 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhaling my heart is open and free. 214 00:27:34.520 --> 00:27:39.650 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale. I receive and give love. 215 00:27:42.500 --> 00:27:44.609 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale free. 216 00:27:46.100 --> 00:27:48.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale love. 217 00:28:05.790 --> 00:28:07.849 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Few more breaths here. 218 00:28:12.830 --> 00:28:21.290 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhaling and stretching up towards the sky. saving up as much space as you can. 219 00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:38.970 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then exhaling. And we're gonna form a ball. And so your choice as to how you do that. You can bring your legs up into your body and curl up into a ball, or you can bring your arms around you just hug yourself in tight, tight, tight, and then bring your face down, if you would like, towards your body. 220 00:28:39.180 --> 00:28:45.190 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe you're crossing your legs. If your legs are under you on a desk, or add a tear. 221 00:28:47.560 --> 00:28:56.029 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): parking everything in. If you haven't given yourself the hug, let this be the first and not last hug of the day 222 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.899 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you are number one. It starts with you. 223 00:29:03.110 --> 00:29:05.419 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then we'll pull in. 224 00:29:06.040 --> 00:29:10.850 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): If you would like to hold your breath, you can inhale 225 00:29:11.290 --> 00:29:15.420 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and hold 2, 3, 226 00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:22.899 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 4, and on your exhale open up and relax, coming into Shavasana. 227 00:29:22.930 --> 00:29:29.970 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So your Shivasana can be seated. can be standing sitting lying down in any shape 228 00:29:36.460 --> 00:29:41.679 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): really aiming for maximum possible comfort. 229 00:29:44.080 --> 00:29:46.960 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Ahimsa, as care for you 230 00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:04.189 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the places where 231 00:30:06.090 --> 00:30:08.020 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we might be challenged 232 00:30:08.520 --> 00:30:13.319 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to offer compassion or to offer support or care 233 00:30:15.570 --> 00:30:19.039 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the places where we ourselves are still struggling. 234 00:30:25.090 --> 00:30:28.289 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so, having the self inquiry. 235 00:30:28.770 --> 00:30:38.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the self understanding to know in those moments I don't need to practice. I need to care for myself. Here 236 00:30:39.870 --> 00:30:43.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the pause. the breath. 237 00:30:49.590 --> 00:30:50.670 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh. 238 00:30:52.430 --> 00:30:58.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in a way it's beautiful. those challenges that we might have because they connect us 239 00:30:59.290 --> 00:31:01.840 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): universally to 240 00:31:06.690 --> 00:31:08.270 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to the struggle. 241 00:31:08.570 --> 00:31:10.890 to the part of us that 242 00:31:11.090 --> 00:31:13.130 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that sometimes is 243 00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:20.419 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): ready to rebel or to yell, or to 244 00:31:20.450 --> 00:31:22.769 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): wants to change things. 245 00:31:26.900 --> 00:31:32.330 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and the part that everyone shares, that we all have feelings 246 00:31:32.910 --> 00:31:36.969 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): of sadness, of anger. the joy. 247 00:31:49.590 --> 00:31:53.970 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so we practice Ahimsa for ourselves, caring for ourselves. 248 00:31:57.150 --> 00:31:59.510 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we practice in our relationships 249 00:32:01.040 --> 00:32:04.199 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and in how we show up in the world 250 00:32:04.570 --> 00:32:09.060 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): around the issues and things that matter the most to us. 251 00:32:19.830 --> 00:32:22.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Take a few more breaths here 252 00:32:47.170 --> 00:32:48.640 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): feeling how 253 00:32:49.020 --> 00:32:52.459 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the care that you bring yourself matters. 254 00:32:52.950 --> 00:32:56.450 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): care that you give to others matters. 255 00:32:58.420 --> 00:33:02.650 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Know, my teacher, Sankerji, when I was training with him. 256 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:08.889 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We're tackling really big issues like past and equity. And you know, very. 257 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:14.950 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): very immediate needs food, water, sustenance, work, purpose 258 00:33:15.210 --> 00:33:16.440 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for folks. 259 00:33:17.890 --> 00:33:20.090 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and what he would have us do 260 00:33:20.250 --> 00:33:23.800 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): when we gathered, you know. Say, we were working on 261 00:33:26.610 --> 00:33:32.019 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): health care need or getting water, you know, building a well. 262 00:33:32.490 --> 00:33:36.119 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): The first part of the meeting would be 263 00:33:36.790 --> 00:33:38.500 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): walking, meditation 264 00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:42.900 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or candle, gazing chute like we started with. 265 00:33:43.450 --> 00:33:47.130 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or chanting. or Asana 266 00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:55.499 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or Diana forms of meditation. not just for 5 min, but for like 2, 3 h. 267 00:33:59.170 --> 00:34:03.840 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then we would start the work from that foundation. 268 00:34:07.470 --> 00:34:09.070 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so it's not 269 00:34:10.860 --> 00:34:13.000 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): trivial mints. 270 00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:19.260 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): huge part of a theme set as personal collective change. 271 00:34:24.620 --> 00:34:27.280 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So these final moments of rest. 272 00:34:28.510 --> 00:34:30.980 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): offering yourself gratitude. 273 00:34:32.830 --> 00:34:39.810 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe even a little celebration, maybe a wiggle of celebration like I'm doing this. 274 00:34:39.940 --> 00:34:48.889 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you know, especially, I'm thinking of folks who are like, I don't even I don't feel like I'm doing it. I don't feel like I've practiced. I've barely shown up to anything or 275 00:34:49.139 --> 00:34:53.750 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): like, yeah, you're doing it. You're here listening. 276 00:34:53.989 --> 00:34:56.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): even if you're half in, half out. 277 00:34:58.950 --> 00:35:01.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So celebrating yourself. 278 00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:04.830 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): appreciating this practice 279 00:35:06.530 --> 00:35:11.940 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and recommitting recommitting reconnecting 280 00:35:17.380 --> 00:35:27.380 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as we move from reflection or practice into reflection, invite you to journal or write in the chat. 281 00:35:27.710 --> 00:35:30.870 How is Ahimsa? How is 282 00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:33.690 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): non harm, care, love. 283 00:35:34.790 --> 00:35:37.599 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): showing up in your personal life. 284 00:35:37.690 --> 00:35:42.700 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in your relationships and in the world. And I'll write that in the chat 285 00:36:12.470 --> 00:36:21.949 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we'll take a few minutes, maybe 3. How is Ahimsa Nonharm love showing up in your personal life relationships and in the world 286 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:27.050 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): are there things that you want to cultivate and then we'll share? 287 00:38:25.770 --> 00:38:29.160 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'd love to invite you into 288 00:38:30.030 --> 00:38:37.250 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): dropping your reflections in the tats. Be taking a minute more, 2 min to right there 289 00:38:37.330 --> 00:38:42.639 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then in a moment, I'll invite folks if you'd like to share out loud. 290 00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:51.720 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And I see there's some folks just joining. So just repeating again the reflection question is, how is Ahimsa 291 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:55.809 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): showing up in your personal life relationships and in the world 292 00:38:56.250 --> 00:38:58.419 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and other things you want to cultivate. 293 00:39:18.750 --> 00:39:19.540 Yeah. 294 00:39:19.700 --> 00:39:25.169 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you're about to invite in. And he shares like to share. 295 00:39:25.340 --> 00:39:31.370 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): This could include like questions. Right? Like, if you're like, I'm grappling with this 296 00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:37.880 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and also so could be answers to that question. It could also be reflections on the practice today. 297 00:39:38.630 --> 00:39:42.269 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): but the floor is open for you all. 298 00:40:10.970 --> 00:40:13.580 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Rachel. Hi! 299 00:40:14.230 --> 00:40:25.339 rachel@yogasong.net: Hi! I love this reflection, and I feel like I want to be saturated, and I himself through all the layers of my being and all the layers of life. And 300 00:40:25.340 --> 00:40:46.810 rachel@yogasong.net: II feel like a lot of my life is driven by him. So living a life of service. I work in hospice. I'm a music practitioner, so I play the harp, the Celtic Irish harp. I've done that work for 20 years, but more recently. As a as a 56 year old, I feel much. II feel, Ahimsa, that that 301 00:40:46.980 --> 00:41:02.889 rachel@yogasong.net: connective tissue of Ahimsa is calling me to really uplift younger people in my community and and and really encourage dreams and visions that younger people have. 302 00:41:02.980 --> 00:41:19.160 rachel@yogasong.net: And and that's sort of that sympathetic joy like rejoicing in others, gifts and talents. So I feel like I can always grow in my own. But I'm I'm really noticing in my community a lot of really vibrant 303 00:41:19.380 --> 00:41:27.140 rachel@yogasong.net: younger people that I want to uplift so that feels really like alive and present for me right now with Ahimsa. Thank you. 304 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:32.100 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that's beautiful. 305 00:41:33.500 --> 00:41:42.970 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you, Rachel. I really resonate with that and I feel like 306 00:41:43.420 --> 00:41:46.809 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): when we look at so many different social movements. 307 00:41:48.430 --> 00:41:55.879 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It is part of how we are effective as change makers is lifting up other folks. 308 00:41:56.100 --> 00:42:05.610 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): even if their way of making change or acting, you know, is slightly different than ours. That's what I see is, movements are very effective 309 00:42:06.310 --> 00:42:08.090 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): when people are kind of 310 00:42:08.250 --> 00:42:16.320 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): lifting others others up. And it becomes like this. you know, collaborative, collective. 311 00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:19.710 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): even if it's non-centralized. 312 00:42:20.450 --> 00:42:25.030 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So re, really resonating with that as it's like a 313 00:42:25.290 --> 00:42:26.710 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): personal choice. 314 00:42:26.940 --> 00:42:36.370 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And it can also be a very strategic movement and political choice. So II love that. 315 00:42:38.270 --> 00:42:39.880 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Aaron. Yeah. 316 00:42:52.290 --> 00:42:54.620 Karen McMillan: Did you say my name? I wasn't sure 317 00:42:54.670 --> 00:42:58.229 Karen McMillan: I was busy writing. Yes, Karen. 318 00:42:58.610 --> 00:43:06.049 Karen McMillan: you know, and I've been thinking about this so many times, but now that you've asked to say it out loud. 319 00:43:07.180 --> 00:43:15.129 Karen McMillan: you know the reminder to self-care in a practical way, mental and emotional and spiritual way 320 00:43:15.290 --> 00:43:27.440 Karen McMillan: that comes up, and that it's relatively easy by comparison. I found it most helpful, though, as I'm in a small claims. 321 00:43:28.370 --> 00:43:38.710 Karen McMillan: fight in court with a landlord who decided she wasn't going to return my several $1,000 of security deposit. 322 00:43:39.410 --> 00:43:46.860 Karen McMillan: This has been going on since 2021, and I could be angry about it, or I could give up and just let it go instead. 323 00:43:47.490 --> 00:43:50.070 Karen McMillan: It's about just take the steps. 324 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:55.209 Karen McMillan: Don't bring me anger. Have the Ahimsa for self. 325 00:43:55.220 --> 00:43:59.670 Karen McMillan: not even towards the other person, whatever their issues are. 326 00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:16.069 Karen McMillan: And even as I had to send in the evidence which I mailed yesterday is like, have kindness for the judge who has to read all of this, put it in a way that it's not angry, but it's organized. Make it easy for everybody, because it already brings 327 00:44:16.100 --> 00:44:18.399 Karen McMillan: so much heaviness, so 328 00:44:18.720 --> 00:44:23.489 Karen McMillan: I won't speak more about it. But it's been a moment for a long time, and 329 00:44:23.690 --> 00:44:25.070 Karen McMillan: and it's just 330 00:44:25.770 --> 00:44:30.870 Karen McMillan: been so helpful to stay in the positive and to even say. 331 00:44:31.110 --> 00:44:42.410 Karen McMillan: I've now mailed it. Whatever happens, happens. we've already had a Germans and mediation. Nothing's worked. 332 00:44:42.990 --> 00:44:49.189 Karen McMillan: but it's like, don't give up, but don't be angry. You have now taken all the steps afforded to you. 333 00:44:49.230 --> 00:44:52.880 Karen McMillan: whatever happens happens, but you know that you've tried. 334 00:44:53.180 --> 00:45:02.339 Karen McMillan: and now you have to let it go, and whatever's supposed to come is to come, and and all that has been the Swaddiya. Yeah, and Ahimsa, and it's been 335 00:45:03.070 --> 00:45:16.880 Karen McMillan: so helpful. It all started happening at the same time from the ytt class till now. I didn't even know how beneficial it would all be, or what I would learn. And it's 336 00:45:17.310 --> 00:45:21.930 Karen McMillan: this is just one of the ways. It's been very helpful. 337 00:45:23.490 --> 00:45:24.990 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you, Karen. 338 00:45:25.190 --> 00:45:36.680 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I have to say like, it's so helpful when folks I find it helpful for me when folks share that the actual applications right like the really challenging moments of like. 339 00:45:36.900 --> 00:45:57.500 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you know, small claims court, or in this case it's like theft, anti Esteya, right like so, and and it makes me angry on behalf of you, right like I feel angered at someone trying to exploit in that way. Without even knowing the details of the situation. Just the the feeling. And 340 00:45:57.850 --> 00:46:01.189 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so I think, piece of what I wanted to 341 00:46:01.750 --> 00:46:03.170 ask you is. 342 00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:06.860 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): have you had the space to feel. 343 00:46:07.050 --> 00:46:16.670 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or do you? Do you feel like you're him says, now kind of where you've come to after that, or do you feel like you're pushing cause? And the reason I asked this is for me. 344 00:46:16.670 --> 00:46:37.190 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So I'm the type of practitioner and person who sometimes moves to the like. Everything's fine, like I'm very peaceful, but I'm not right. I'm hurt, and I'm angry, and I'm suffering. And and so it's sort of like, not quite integrated. And I'm learning I'm in the process of learning that part of Maya who set is to like. 345 00:46:38.210 --> 00:46:55.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): spend some time, you know, put on the like emo sad song, playlist, and be sad, or put on the like feminist rage, you know, and be mad, and for me it takes sometimes an outside thing to help me allow my feelings. 346 00:46:55.120 --> 00:47:13.100 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then I move right to the practice, and if I feel it coming up I go back, and I let myself feel it, and then I come back. So I'm not forcing the piece. I am it because I've had space and I don't. This may not be you. Karen. It may 347 00:47:13.330 --> 00:47:15.749 Karen McMillan: spot on, that's it, and it's 348 00:47:16.210 --> 00:47:44.889 Karen McMillan: I think, part of the now that you say it, I'll add to it because it's ditto everything you've said and made, and it's to remember maybe part of the Ahm system. Remember, I'm human. I'm very human. So I'm going to get pissed. And I'm gonna you know. But I've been. And then I've been through the part where it's angry and cursing and wishing the worst to then the anger gets softer, and then I have moments of whatever, and then I add the gratitude toward. 349 00:47:46.260 --> 00:47:47.450 Karen McMillan: and 350 00:47:47.580 --> 00:47:49.820 Karen McMillan: I'm grateful that 351 00:47:50.050 --> 00:48:01.300 Karen McMillan: her not returning didn't stop me from getting a new home, didn't it? Didn't stop me from having a deposit for something else, because in there have been times in my life 352 00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:13.690 Karen McMillan: I wouldn't have been able to move because I wouldn't have had a deposit for the new home. So I'm blending it all. and it's becoming easier to be in the soft place 353 00:48:13.810 --> 00:48:21.189 Karen McMillan: to even come out of the anger to just feeling righteous like I should do this, and I deserve this. And I, 354 00:48:21.420 --> 00:48:27.330 Karen McMillan: everything just keeps getting softer, and I think I, the way I explain it, as I can be 355 00:48:27.530 --> 00:48:32.929 Karen McMillan: angry without anger. I can be angry without aggression. 356 00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:34.160 he 357 00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:43.529 Karen McMillan: and some days I just have the whatever. This is the last step, and I'm totally living it and loving it. 358 00:48:43.950 --> 00:48:57.780 Karen McMillan: You know, in other days, but it's it's just not. It takes time, and it takes practice. But with that practice with the Sadena. I think even the anger isn't as angry 359 00:48:57.820 --> 00:49:03.960 Karen McMillan: it just. and then I tell myself. you know. 360 00:49:04.550 --> 00:49:17.129 Karen McMillan: so that 3,000, maybe come 10,000, just let it go. It may come back to you if you let it go right. Maybe it'll come back to you in another way. 361 00:49:17.160 --> 00:49:22.810 Karen McMillan: whatever way that is. And I've been very fortunate most of the time. It's come back 362 00:49:22.890 --> 00:49:28.979 Karen McMillan: in a very tangible, visual, sometimes exact way, but bigger. 363 00:49:30.110 --> 00:49:40.270 Karen McMillan: But it's all. Every single thing I've been learning from the YTT. And now, which is why I'm going to stay here. This practice allows me 364 00:49:40.950 --> 00:49:45.979 Karen McMillan: to stay in that place rather than slipping back 365 00:49:46.640 --> 00:49:50.159 Karen McMillan: the Svadaya. The practice is necessary. 366 00:49:50.490 --> 00:49:56.590 Karen McMillan: and then I'll even say it to others, which means I'm practicing it, cause I'm teaching it. 367 00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:01.590 Karen McMillan: Yes, thank you so much, Karen. 368 00:50:01.870 --> 00:50:10.540 Karen McMillan: I've got a transmission. I just wanna say, yeah, from every everything that folks have shared. I'm like, Oh. 369 00:50:11.070 --> 00:50:13.840 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deepening that aims to practice. Thank you. 370 00:50:15.890 --> 00:50:16.990 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Andrea. 371 00:50:18.080 --> 00:50:20.909 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hi! So good to see you. 372 00:50:22.370 --> 00:50:28.819 Andrea @alovincoven: Yes, so good to see everyone. Thank you. Hi, Karen, thank you for sharing 373 00:50:29.170 --> 00:50:36.010 Andrea @alovincoven: it really resonated with a lot of what you shared, too, and I just love having the space 374 00:50:36.380 --> 00:50:43.019 Andrea @alovincoven: So what has been coming up for me around Ahimsa is also very much 375 00:50:43.310 --> 00:50:48.570 Andrea @alovincoven: based around what I'm reading right now, which I mentioned all about love by bell hooks. 376 00:50:48.660 --> 00:50:56.280 Andrea @alovincoven: But Ahimsa, like love, is a choice right? So, realizing that 377 00:50:56.800 --> 00:51:14.999 Andrea @alovincoven: loving myself isn't just going to come to me, or like loving my partners or my friends. Realizing that I get to make the choice that today I am going to love myself in this way or show myself care in this way. 378 00:51:15.250 --> 00:51:28.459 Andrea @alovincoven: And that's that's really all I wanted all I wanted to share. Is just thinking of it as as a choice that we can make and how we want to put that into action. So thank you. 379 00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.909 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So revolutionary right of like I get to choose this. 380 00:51:40.530 --> 00:51:41.759 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): have a choice. 381 00:51:42.910 --> 00:51:51.689 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and that for me is is honestly a lot of what the power of Yoga and mindfulness practice has given me is that sense of 382 00:51:52.180 --> 00:51:58.930 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): of choice even in the places where I felt really disempowered, I still feel a sense of agency. 383 00:51:59.030 --> 00:52:05.190 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And it didn't always feel like that. So, really resonating with you. 384 00:52:05.650 --> 00:52:10.840 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And I wanna read some stuff in the chat, and then I'll come to Don. 385 00:52:11.190 --> 00:52:18.330 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): wow! I don't know if I need glasses, or my, I really hard to read the chat. Why is it so small? 386 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:23.290 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I guess I do need classes. 387 00:52:23.680 --> 00:52:25.780 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): okay. 388 00:52:26.440 --> 00:52:27.550 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): hmm. 389 00:52:28.570 --> 00:52:35.450 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Leave, says Ahimsa. Shows up for me in my life through introspective work I've done to heal inner wounds and past traumas. 390 00:52:35.490 --> 00:52:37.590 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes, allow me to be 391 00:52:37.610 --> 00:52:46.319 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): more fully present in my relationships with clear and open communication and boundaries. Thank you. 392 00:52:47.670 --> 00:52:54.059 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Don. Love is showing up with loss, with the passing of 2 dear ones in the past few days. 393 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:58.690 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Care for a beloved aunt who has broken her femur oof at 80 394 00:52:59.180 --> 00:53:08.309 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): love Ahimsa is showing up as truth and reconciliation, calling honor for the calling, honor for the gifts and preciousness of children. 395 00:53:08.560 --> 00:53:12.739 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): In myself an ever-awakening sense of the sacred deep 396 00:53:13.590 --> 00:53:21.670 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): apple. I think maybe appreciation. You can tell me what word you mean there for those who have come before. Yeah, awesome. 397 00:53:22.420 --> 00:53:24.600 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you for your shares 398 00:53:26.740 --> 00:53:34.899 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): friend sharing resources for my mother's move for assistive living next month, my partner cooking dinner for me, since I don't have the energy to do much 399 00:53:35.130 --> 00:53:50.799 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): after work or after helping my mother. Yeah, that's a lot to be holding. Love is showing up through me, focusing on my mother's transition, focusing on addressing healthy work environment for educators really focusing on my mental health 400 00:53:50.810 --> 00:53:58.490 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as environmental Health and Safety Committee member, really wanting to change the work environment for educators. Yeah. 401 00:53:59.430 --> 00:54:00.740 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's powerful. 402 00:54:02.780 --> 00:54:04.779 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you, Justine 403 00:54:05.540 --> 00:54:22.619 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Katrina, when I consider a him. So the first thing that comes to mind is the practice of self compassion, which has been a struggle of mine for a long time. I also would like to continue cultivating a himself in the ways that I interact with students in my role as a primary school teacher. Yes. 404 00:54:23.460 --> 00:54:30.560 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Susan, I'm practicing Ahimsa towards myself, around my challenges and disappointments, with my business processes and results 405 00:54:30.580 --> 00:54:39.260 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): towards clients around their shame, self blame, and community with friends when I notice their actions are words that may be harmful. Yeah. 406 00:54:39.700 --> 00:54:56.439 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): resonating with that, too. Like for me. Sometimes that seems to is like moving from the the like. I am a victim to where is my power? Kind of circling back to that empowerment, or like sovereignty? 407 00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:58.700 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Because I am a victim 408 00:54:59.050 --> 00:55:06.779 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): doesn't lead me to a very useful, you know, next next steps like but 409 00:55:07.120 --> 00:55:18.040 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): when I'm able to look at things from a place of sovereignty or a place of of like. What can I do? I find that there's more available to me. 410 00:55:18.370 --> 00:55:28.069 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So resonating with that Carly that's helpful, I recently realized I've been trying to skip right equanimity without giving myself space to feel the feelings. Yes. 411 00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:30.300 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yeah. 412 00:55:31.610 --> 00:55:42.330 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Justine, I appreciate the reminder. It'll come back to us in a bigger way, and being very human, too, means I won't spiritually bypass my feelings. Yeah, there's like, 413 00:55:42.590 --> 00:55:56.769 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you know, the thing that's underneath that it'll come back to us. What Karen was talking about with a very real thing of like security deposit, or if anyone's had money that stolen or lost, or taken, or like made a choice or an investment. They were like. 414 00:55:57.350 --> 00:56:03.300 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I feel like it's a very tangible way to practice 415 00:56:03.840 --> 00:56:14.680 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): reliance on the divine is for our pranayana right reliance on that that trust, and it and money is that weigh in for many of us, I think, because it is so visceral. 416 00:56:14.710 --> 00:56:26.290 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): But it could be anything. It could be like something not working out right. Or you know, a a curve ball. And it's like right? I can force. I can try. I can do everything where I can 417 00:56:26.530 --> 00:56:31.119 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): trust. And then from that trust, take the next aligned step. 418 00:56:32.340 --> 00:56:38.209 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And okay, when it comes to Ms. Don, you had your hand up 419 00:56:44.720 --> 00:56:45.700 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): right there. 420 00:56:46.260 --> 00:56:50.230 Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): Thank you. I was loving, listening to everybody's. 421 00:56:51.060 --> 00:56:56.179 Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): I've had a real like feeling sense of how much I take on. 422 00:56:56.220 --> 00:56:59.789 Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): So I think one of my my big 423 00:57:00.190 --> 00:57:05.750 Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): workforce, and in my self care is to know what's mine and what's not mine. 424 00:57:06.230 --> 00:57:19.889 Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): because I want to get in everybody's business, and I want to be the super mom and the super, you know, at work and do too much. So I'm really thinking, the opposite of playing the victim. I like to play the Savior. 425 00:57:20.200 --> 00:57:27.880 Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): which can also be a thing because we do want the world to be such a beautiful place sometimes is it 426 00:57:27.890 --> 00:57:41.990 Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): for me, becomes a a blinder to take on and try to do too much. I don't know if that happens for other people. But I do think that that watching my energy flow and making sure I have enough left for me 427 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:46.349 Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): is gonna be something to work on. 428 00:57:46.710 --> 00:57:51.149 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes, thank you so much. I really resonate with that. 429 00:57:53.870 --> 00:57:54.550 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. 430 00:57:55.150 --> 00:57:57.040 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And it's kind of that like 431 00:57:57.340 --> 00:58:10.690 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): original practice of Ahimsa towards ourselves, so we can actually show up for others the oxygen mask right? Or the breath practice, which for us might be our oxygen mask. 432 00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:31.120 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so thank you so much for your practice today. I'd love to invite folks if there's like a Ha! Or take away that if you wanna drop it in the chat. And then I also wanna say, I had this kind of epiphany connected to some work that I'm doing on. You have a class curator around 433 00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:35.270 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): how to build in a sequence 434 00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:40.559 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that really connects you to your voice, like your kind of authentic 435 00:58:40.600 --> 00:59:06.189 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): roots and voice, and also yoga philosophy, and then takes it through like creating a a yoga sequence, and I wanna share it in our next office hours. So I'll break that down, and then there'll be a master class that you'll see called embodying Anjali Mudra. That's all about like embodying the heart of Yoga. And it is an invitation. It's 436 00:59:06.230 --> 00:59:10.639 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): kind of the beginning of what I'll be doing in the 437 00:59:11.110 --> 00:59:12.739 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in our office hours 438 00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:26.079 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): next time. But you're welcome to to watch that free webinar, and it comes out. It'll come out, I think, on Friday, Friday or Monday. So just letting you know about some 439 00:59:26.390 --> 00:59:31.069 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): some resources, I want to also share a lot of gratitude, because 440 00:59:31.410 --> 00:59:49.039 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I feel like some of the new Ahas that have come to me have come from the foundation of this community and from the work that we've been doing together, and the practice that we've been doing together. So I'm very, very grateful. And feeling that the benefits of of the Sangha, you know, and having this time. 441 00:59:49.230 --> 01:00:03.970 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and for those who are not continuing with us just so much gratitude to you, and congratulations on completing your year long journey in Yoga class curator, and if you would like 442 01:00:03.990 --> 01:00:05.610 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to 443 01:00:05.670 --> 01:00:20.760 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): if you would like to continue, we have the re enrollment for folks whose year is ending, you would have gotten an email. You didn't get an email. You're not ending. So don't worry. You'll get it when your year ends and then maybe Julian, may you 444 01:00:21.110 --> 01:00:23.750 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): could you drop the re enrollment? 445 01:00:23.780 --> 01:00:32.630 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Think so that way folks have it. We are serious about cutting off like so meaning. 446 01:00:33.850 --> 01:01:00.519 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): because on the back end we have to. We have to do quite a few things to either give you access or not. So if you want to re enroll. Please do it before the end of the month, or else it's trickier for our team to to shift you to that because there's going to be some special things for alumni that come out for you. If you're if you're continuing into that second year as a yoga class curator. Satica. Continue practitioner. 447 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:08.709 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): okay? And then we have a page. Right? We can drop the re enrollment page. 448 01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:14.000 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So any takeaways? 449 01:01:15.240 --> 01:01:16.850 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): a 450 01:01:17.190 --> 01:01:19.059 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): today, I'm just looking up. 451 01:01:20.050 --> 01:01:20.900 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. 452 01:01:22.410 --> 01:01:26.090 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the class curator reenrollment. 453 01:01:26.110 --> 01:01:28.169 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Not sure if I have 454 01:01:29.470 --> 01:01:31.600 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it. 455 01:01:32.990 --> 01:01:34.090 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): now. 456 01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:39.050 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): see 1 s. 457 01:01:41.630 --> 01:01:45.840 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And here we go. Yes. 458 01:01:46.690 --> 01:01:47.470 okay. 459 01:01:47.960 --> 01:01:48.920 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm. 460 01:01:56.770 --> 01:01:59.170 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): There we go. Okay. 461 01:01:59.510 --> 01:02:20.590 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It is such a blessing. It's such a joy to be together. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. To each of you, wishing you so much depth of practice, so much care and so much joy, you know, and infusion of yoga into your life, into your practice, into your world. 462 01:02:20.750 --> 01:02:29.039 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so we can unmute and say goodbye and I'll see some of you next in a couple weeks. 463 01:02:29.330 --> 01:02:36.639 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and others of you wherever we see each other's next. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 464 01:02:37.150 --> 01:02:40.019 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And you can unmute. And let's say goodbye. 465 01:02:41.070 --> 01:02:48.410 Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Bye. 466 01:02:49.100 --> 01:02:50.799 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you.