Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hello! Hello! And welcome.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Welcome, folks!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm excited to be together with you this November on our November pilgrimage and Puja
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I wanted to explore the theme of boundaries and Brahmataria and energy this pilgrimage in Puta, because
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it feels like there's so much happening
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in many of our lives also out in the world in many directions and places.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then some of us may be moving into a time where we'll be gathering with family.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): chosen family or blood family, and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): also, maybe in work situations where tensions are high, right, and you may not be fully seeing for who you are fully honored or acknowledged or recognized
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for who you are, how you want to be. And so I wanted to guide us a little bit with some practices for for
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): during these times. But before I do that, I just wanna invite in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Maybe in the chat. If you'd like to share
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): a couple words could be 2 words, or however many would like for how you are, how are you today?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And if there's anything on your heart or mind, and that is also welcome can share in the chat or out loud, and you're welcome to have your video on or off. I always enjoy seeing folks if you're if you're able, and if you feel comfortable, and I also totally get and personally participate in like zoom, you know, classes with my video, my video off
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as well sometimes.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So how are you? And I am
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): grounded
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and clear.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I think, are my my 2 words, for right now, Rebecca, our deep grief and gratitude.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Seeing you witnessing you. Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Caroline, feeling connected with community today, feeling grateful. Stacy content and hanging in. Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Cleo. kind of split holding tension personal successes and global sadness. Yes.
yeah. And, Cleo, I wanna invite into like, this is a space where
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we can hold all we can hold like the duality. Because
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): right now there are so many global tensions that are high. But I can't think of a time in my lifetime when somewhere in the world there wasn't
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): devastation and injustice and suffering right? So it's not
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): different
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to to be holding the both in. It might feel more personal and more intimate and more
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): intense. and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we get to hold the 10,000 joys and the 10,000 h so inviting. And if you feel like sharing your personal successes with us, this is a place for also lifting each other up and celebrating with each other. It's actually quite rare, I think, to have spaces where you can be with folks who are genuine, genuinely, really happy for your success. I found I've noticed that that even in the Yoga community sometimes people will be like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): huh! I want that, you know, like there's a there can be just an interesting response to success so inviting in wins and successes as well.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And well, Stephanie Covid. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope that, and light hearted. I hope that you feel
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): better soon.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): hmm! And and so one of the most
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): powerful things for me about Yoga. Practice is that it's there for us in all of it, in the toys, in the successes, in the wins. and in the grief.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in the sickness and the tiredness, and the barely hanging on right, we.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I think, about practices like sound like Nada Yoga Nada.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): where you can lay there, or stand or sit right, just be, and then repeat a sound in your mind, or listen. Have someone else play, or turn on a a sound like Oh, or any sound right shanti mantra, and you can be nourished by that sound.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it can be an incredibly deep practice. So practice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): is there in all of the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): States that we can be in. and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): sometimes for me, especially if I'm feeling ungrounded or activated or challenged, or, you know, unwell, all of those things I need reminders, right? So part of what we're doing here is reminding each other. So I'm really grateful for folks sharing because everything you've named. Like most of us, many of us probably have
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): experienced these things like in the past. I had Covid, I felt content and hanging in. I felt
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the tension of global sadness and personal joy, right? Light-hearted. brief. And so it's so universal. There's a way that by coming together in community. We connect to that
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): small self with a big S self. So that's part of my wish for us
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in this time together.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I'll invite us to. If you have a candle, you can light it. If you don't. No worries you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can energetically visualize your candle this way and like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and since
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): have an interesting lighter
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): move.
Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Candle as well
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as you light your candle or visualize.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Send this incense towards you as well. I'm feeling the heat from the flame.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So we're tuning into that
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that universal self. See if I can show you for those who don't have their own candle.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Give me one moment
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that plant there gets to hold so many of our so many of our waters and our instances over over the years. So.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as you're gazing at the flame, your own or mine, or perhaps closing your eyes and visualizing a flame at the center
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): of your mind or the center of your heart.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Take some deep breaths in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and deep breaths out
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and allow the light, the energy from this flame to expand out.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): filling
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your physical body.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your energy, body.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your emotions.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): thoughts.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and even your bliss body
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): from the physical
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to the subtle, the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): through thoughts, emotions. insight
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for the lists.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and feeling the nourishment of that light that is yours. and also universal. universal light of knowledge and wisdom.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And we'll take a journey in our mind's eye pilgrimage energetically
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): through this current moment in your life. Is there a particular place, or
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): but area or arena of your life where you would like more nourishment?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And there's many ways to do this exploration
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): kind of think of it like a life pie or a
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): different qualities, and we might have different slices of our pies. Right? But friends, family
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): work or purpose. spiritual growth. emotional
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): intellectual pursuits, learning.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): physical
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): challenge, or how play fun, adventure. Maybe you've got some other
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): slices in there, creative.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and where might you need or want nourishment.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe everywhere, which is wonderful and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): valid and welcome. And maybe there's a particular place or places where you're like I'd really love a little more nourishment
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in this area.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Remembering Yoga Sutra, 2.3 8 Brahmacharya, Pratishtayam, Viria lava
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for one who manages their energy. strength
and creative life, force
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): energy unfolds as we feed and nourish our energies. Even just by doing a practice like this. We're already watering those seeds of nourishment.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and sometimes the first step is bringing awareness to where needs it
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for me right now. It's
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): some energy and attention on physical health, and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe for some people. We already got this on lock, and for others it's like I haven't even started thinking about this yet, but the basics like sleep. I'm sure I'm nourishing myself. Well.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exercise as my body changes and ages, and I move into a different stage of life. Those are the things on my mind right now, and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): few months ago was more on relationships.
Hmm.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then expanding to feel into where you are. Your pie is beyond just you. And so maybe there's community members or particular causes
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that are part of that nourishment. Part of your life pie issues that are really important or sacred to you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that you care about
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and expanding those in and feeling the light
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): reach out and fill those. bringing hope. Maybe where there's despair or hopelessness light.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): When you feel ready we'll do a little bit of movement
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): practicing Brahma Mudra
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as we work with Brahma or creation, and Brahma has 4 faces.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so to do this practice you can breathe in and turn your head to one side. exhale, bring your nose and face back to center. inhale, turn your head to the other side.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale back to center. inhale, gaze up. tilting your head up, stretching. exhale back to center.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then inhale, face down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale back to center. and we'll continue to move like that, letting your breath. Initiate your movement.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): sometimes
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): bringing a different perspective.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): can help us
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): understand how to extend or conserve our energies.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and your eyes can be
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): softly closed, or just gently
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): relaxing in their gaze.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): This is my third time, your breath and your movement
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe different, and that's very welcome.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll each do 4
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): rounds to honor the 4
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): aspects of Brahma.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Not only is this giving us
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and opening into different perspectives, also stretching
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the cervical spine, neck muscles.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): When you complete your 4 rounds coming back to center
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and take our hands and bring them behind our heads, clasping them, and give your neck if you'd like a little bit of traction at the bottom of your head, maybe even a massage there
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): on your skull and neck.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): dropping your jaw.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): opening your mouth
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and rocking your head a little bit left and right. You can stay right here, or option 2, if you'd like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Unclasp your hands, begin to roll your head around in one direction.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): do 4 turns in this direction
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then the other direction, as you're ready.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): opening up continually into new perspectives, checking in on your energy and the places that need nourishment.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and on your fourth one can come back to stillness to center. We'll begin to roll our shoulders
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): back and around, and your arms can stay down, or, if you'd like more dynamic movement, you can lift up your arms and let your whole arm move with
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your shoulders. Your choice there.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll do 4 with your breath. Inhale. exhale.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then circle in the other direction. If you would like going backward, maybe circling forward.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): noticing any
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): tightness, tension, or cracking, and just bringing an awareness there
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then, when you complete your 4, we'll inhale our arms up of our head and exhale twist to one side.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): testing from the belly
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): chest, chin, eyes around. Last
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): again a new perspective.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Perhaps your eyes are closed, but the light has changed.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or if they're open. Maybe you're seeing the space in a new way.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): One more breath here.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhaling your arms back up through center and exhaling, twisting to the other side.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and as you come to this side, taking your time to twist from your guts from your belly, then your chest. then your chin and eyes twist around lap
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): totally different perspective.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and inhale.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just come up and exhale
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): forward, fold any amount so your hands can come onto the table. If you have a table, or anything in front of you, and your body can just start to fold forward
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or bring your energy over your
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): over your body. down towards the earth
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one or more breath. Here.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): bring yourself back up, and we'll take some time just thinking about momentaria and energy management. Our arms.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): this whole area of our body torso trunk, but also our arms. Get a lot of expend a lot of energy, and so, taking some time, you can either attack or
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): bring your palm onto your arm, or your neck, or even underneath, or long strokes, if that, if the tapping feels too stimulating, can do long strokes down your arm massaging.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and your options are there
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): doing the other side, or both both sides.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So many of us are
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): texting, writing on computers, maybe cooking or making things, and so letting your wrists and hands come together and rotate around so kind of like from Anjali Mudra. Then you're opening your palms up, letting the backs of your hands come together and flipping around back to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Anjali. So, moving in a
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): rhythm, and I've been rotating in one direction, you can
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): rotate the other if you would like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then shaking out your hands, the arms that feels nourishing and supportive to you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can take one hand and bring it to the fingers of your other hand, so, stretching your palm open, and I like to do this downwards, but also you can practice like, if you're working on sharing and expressing your boundaries, you can bring your hand out and stretch it open this way like in the gesture of stop, and you can practice saying, Stop
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or no. as you're stretching just to rehearse.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): No. Is a complete sentence right? You don't have to explain. Can you do this? Can you take care of this. Can you do this extra? No.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): no, I cannot.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): No, and you don't need to explain. You don't need to justify
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): stretching the other side.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Another practice that I use a lot is bringing my hands in front of me, and just
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): like clearing the energy I sometimes like. If I
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): have had an experience. I'm feeling kind of icky, or I don't quite get why, I'm feeling weird. I'll just like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): clear the energy out from a whole body, you know, or like, go in front of myself and do this. So if that feels like it would be something you'd want to try.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And then.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): once I've gotten it all nice and gone. Sometimes I make some noise like or breathe out strongly, I'll imagine pulling right the Soma and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the soma, which is the light and the power that's in the the world around us. It's found in moonlight sunlight. So you can maybe look out if you are near a window, or just have some ambient light also is found in any light source, and imagine that I'm bringing that Soma in right to nourish, to recharge, and sometimes I physically like to like sprinkle my fingers kind of like I would be.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): give myself a little rain shower of Soma. So a nourishment.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Recharging my batteries.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll take
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just a few
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): more moments in active movement. do a short meditation.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then some journaling and sharing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so moving in any way that you would like. I'm stretching to side to side before
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we'll take just a minute or 2 in silence to let all of this integrate and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): notice how your mind, body, spirit, is feeling.
and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'll guide you back with my voice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): when it's time.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): In this silent practice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): perhaps focusing on continued nourishment
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): on the light of that flame, visualized or actual.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): anything else that will nourish your energy in this time.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe just simply resting
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): practice together.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'll take a breath in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deep breath out
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): receiving whatever it is that you would like to receive from this practice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): all of the nourishment, all of the light.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll keep this meditative focus and move towards a little bit of journaling. And for this journaling
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): invitation. So you're not getting my kind of messy writing. But see that well, but here's like a pie of mine, right like. And here I did one recently for my work projects, and then I did one for just my life, because there were so many projects.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): But I'll share a nice one that I found on a website called Intention Inspired.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And you can make your your pie
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): equal
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): slices. This this person made the ones that are bigger, bigger, like bigger focuses.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): but you can make them equal. And then
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): sometimes. What I do is I'll put like home or
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I'll color in like I'm filled up. Say, with working career. I'm like way here.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and friends and social is a little lower right now, so I might color it into there, or you can put numbers if that resonates for you. and you get to choose your categories right? If you don't want
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to have all these categories, you don't have to use these, but these are lovely, and I like the ad of like escape last time, like like just relaxing time. I've been doing lots of that with reading
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in the evening, and so it's nice to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): get to be able to color that pretty high right if you do include it.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And I also really enjoy the affirmation around the outside. I'm creating a balanced and harmonious life. And so if there's something that you're feeling that you're wanting to nourish or like, I'm nourishing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can put that around, and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): theirs is is pretty, and you know, artistic and colored in, and you sell mine like really rough.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'll leave this up for a little bit, but you know it doesn't have to be. Fancy. It can be really like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): rough. And and you can always go back and make one later. But
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I thought we could take
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 6, 7 min and just take some time, like really enough time to make that pie to fill it, start to fill it in. to start to reflect on where you're at, and you know sometimes in my life I've made the pie of where I am and then where I want to be.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): because they're they're so far apart. and that just that intention brings my ability closer to being able to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): nourish myself more. I would like to be able to share this and share some music, but I don't know if I can do both, so I think if you want music I'll just invite you to play your own
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we can journal for a little while.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And when I just thought someone is just joining us, I'm going to repeat what we're doing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And also I wanna make sure if there's any questions on what we're doing, you ask them.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So we're reflecting on our energy like, where is our energy going right now?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And when we're
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in our life, what are we spending
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): our energy on our very precious energy? And we're making little pie. I think I'm gonna just make my
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): mine. I just drew, you know, a rough like pie. And then I'm gonna put the things that I want in there and then color to fill up how much of each you know where I'm at and where I would like to be.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): because where our attention goes, energy flows right? And there's that saying. And so when we bring awareness to like, Oh, I want more time on self growth or personal growth, right? And wanna put a little time into family or creativity. It gets nourished. Okay.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so I will stop talking. Take some minutes to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): turn off
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 3,
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): wrap up our journaling, for now be taking a minute or 2, if there's a
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): affirmation, or sloka, or a phrase that you would like to bring into this time to support yourself.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): but in that now. or the seeds of that.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe just a word.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And then, if there's folks or communities or causes that you would like to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): share your energy with
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe also, including them in your wheel, inside or around the outside, wherever you would like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll take just a minute more.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): remembering that Yoga isn't something that you do. It's something that you are. There's no perfect pose. There's no perfect practice, certainly no perfect body.
and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that. as we practice, particularly Brahmataria. were
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): really reclaiming our energy. our power are just our attention, like what we're spending our life force on
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in a way that can be deeply connected to self care and social justice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so you get to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to practice that that caring for you, nourishing you so you can also nourish others is an inherent part of what it means to practice pramataria.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So especially for if there's folks here who've been feeling like depleted and confused, or burned out and lost, and and you're like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): but I need to keep going. I need to like yes. course, the world needs your care, but you also need nourishment and care. and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): there's no perfect way to do this right. It's a dance, it's an ebb and a flow, and it's always changing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you are always tainting.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so, to complete our ritual portion, if you have water near you, you can take a drink of that water, or
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): T, or whatever you have near you. If you don't have water near you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just visualize yourself being surrounded by water, and maybe bringing that nourishment. that fluidity, the fluid element, the nourishing element of water into you, and then, if you've got your
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): candle or the visualization of a candle, you don't have to have a candle just taking that candle and your wheel.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and giving your your wheel a little blessing. And the way you do this traditionally is actually like this. You hold the candle in your right hand. I don't know if it looks
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): sorry about that. Looks like right to you, and you move in a clockwise direction so 3 times.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so just sending a blessing, this universal energy to your own life, and then from your own life back to the universal energy.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): when you complete and place that down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and thank you so much for practicing. for nourishing your energy for practicing bermataria together.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I'd love to open up to hear any reflections, any inquiries.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's really a gift to be able to take this time to.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to practice in this way, and also to give yourself just
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the time and the care to put
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): towards yourself and then to share. So it's always really supportive to hear from others
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in chat or out loud. Just opening up this time for for some good time.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes, Rebecca, of course.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm! And welcome. I'm seeing some folks I didn't see at the beginning. I hope that that made some sense, even if you came in when we were quiet.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): would anyone like to share? And you might share? You know I feel like with the pie. It sometimes
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): surprises me, and then sometimes I'm like, Oh, it's very clear where where I need to work or where I've been spending my energy, and then I often see these like separate from our engagement in the world. But to me they're it's so connected, right? Like what I'm doing. And then what I'm giving, or what I'm caring about. It's full circle.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so if there's any shares, anything really in your pie, or your your nourishment or energy or questions or explorations around boundaries or bar material. What's nourishing you
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): opening it up?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes. Hello. Calendar.
Alright.
Caroline (they/she): I don't have to put my hand down.
Oh, okay?
Caroline (they/she): And
Caroline (they/she): yeah, thank you very much. It's the first time I've come to Preacher. Sorry. lovely to be here.
Caroline (they/she): Can you hear me? Okay.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you're a little a little muffled. I don't know if you can be slightly closer to the mic.
Yeah. Yeah.
Caroline (they/she): Yeah, thank you. It's my first time
Caroline (they/she): I'm into the space there to appreciate. And
Caroline (they/she): I it amused me
Caroline (they/she): that I had a whole pie just for food, shopping, and cooking.
Caroline (they/she): They're like I was just like, spend a lot of time but
Caroline (they/she): I guess I just wanted to
Caroline (they/she): appreciate the space and the blessing that felt really and
Caroline (they/she): lovely to see
Caroline (they/she): the pies lit up by the candle light, and
Caroline (they/she): and that felt
Caroline (they/she): and
Caroline (they/she): bye, bye.
Caroline (they/she): real like it was doing what we were talking about and
Caroline (they/she): see. I guess I just wanted to share that. I found that really helpful. I did a couple of different pie charts as I started to
Caroline (they/she): begin to try and
Caroline (they/she): kind of makes sense of what? Where? Where some of my energy is going.
Caroline (they/she): yeah, I maybe. Just thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you so much. I love that. Yeah, I can see the light, the candle flickering on you as well as you're speaking. And so just.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's such a vivid representation of what we're actually doing with our energy, right? Like whatever we're putting our energy on. We're like Whoa. throwing that life force out.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And sometimes, you know, let's be real like my energy is going up something very frivolous. And other times it's like the most important thing
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that ever could be right. And and that's okay. There's no judgment in that. It's just bringing awareness to where it's going. And if it's going out out, out, out, or am I caring here as well, you know? And is there a dance? A kind of, I think, of Yoga Yoga
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): practice. When we go deep into it? It's understanding that dance of giving and receiving
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in a way of Shiva and Shati right of the different kind of powers that are happening. And then
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): there's no rule like we could be giving 90, and receiving 10, or receiving 90 and giving 10 right per cent.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): But being aware of it and then balancing it out for us in the time that we're in.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah.
Caroline (they/she): So could I share something else that from earlier in the practice?
Caroline (they/she): So when you, we were putting our hands out.
Caroline (they/she): and just that that felt very powerful. I've been.
Caroline (they/she): There's been a lot of boundary work I've been doing with
Caroline (they/she): different people that are in on my life.
Caroline (they/she): Yeah, thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And one other. You reminded me that I do a lot. If I'm gonna you know that I'm so sensitive II haven't realized how sensitive I am to energy. I keep like re understanding that but if I'm gonna be around folks who kind of under
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): estimate me, or just like, you know, just kind of not a place where I can be fully myself. I'll sometimes envision putting up like a barrier of light that keeps my energy kind of intact and whole, and their stuff just sort of bounces off. And that's really helpful. It is really helpful for me. And II do believe
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): there's
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): personally, I believe that there's so much, you know, when you look at the Yoga text from thousands of years ago up until even like recent, relatively recent, like 3, 400 years ago. There's
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): illustrations of the Nazis and of energy that is in our bodies, but it's also beyond our bodies even. And since there is that interplay of energy happening, can impact it with
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): our intention, with our practices, with our movement, with Mantra, with Mudra. All these things, yes, and Cleo, and with music I love this. Someone asked for favorite songs, and this answers to what's nourishing at the moment. Question as well. Honeymoon chanting, and Sita RAM, chanting recently, was at a live Krishna das event, which was great fire, boosting energy. Oh, and thank you for dropping the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): link, but in truth, fashion. I'm either blasting devotional music, or like Cardi B. Yes, yes, yes, I love that, and maybe part of having, you know that like intention. And the pie is. Maybe there's an anthem. Maybe there's a song you know, that is gonna go with
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with this time the energy of this time that you're putting in there. And you can write that down and listen to it when you want to be like. Yes, I'm walking in. I'm I'm nourishing my energy with that, and it could be Cardi B. It could be for me. It's like unstoppable. By Sia! It's like that song. It makes me feel, you know, like I'm in it, I'm doing it. No one could stop me. That that is
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the kind of nourishment I need to keep doing the work in the world that I do.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah, anyone else.
Jayce (she/her): I'll share a little bit. Yup.
Jayce (she/her): I'm at a place where
Jayce (she/her): I'm really trying to get my brain to
Jayce (she/her): quiet and get into my body
Jayce (she/her): and listen to what my body has to say and what wisdom it has to offer, because
Jayce (she/her): my brain can't really rationalize a whole lot right now.
Jayce (she/her): And so I found as I was drawing the pie, that really the affirmation at the top, I'm creating a balanced and harmonious life felt really meaningful. And then I drew my pie, and all of the things were just, and and this is also my brain liking. Even things were all evenly distributed around the pie. But I put the things that were important to me.
Jayce (she/her): and then II decided to pull a card about
Jayce (she/her): what I'm feeling particularly.
Jayce (she/her): I'm having a hard time with upcoming holiday.
Jayce (she/her): And so what would be most supportive during
Jayce (she/her): the the next couple of days, and I pulled ritual, and I felt like that was just really
Jayce (she/her): fitting and really supportive, and also a big relief where it's like. just keep
Jayce (she/her): leaning in and
Jayce (she/her): being in the communities like this one that feel supportive, and the practices that I've started to create in the mornings that that feel
Jayce (she/her): really good.
Jayce (she/her): So that's what's alive for me?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm. thank you. Thank you, Jason, for the the gift of ritual. Yeah. Can be such an anchor.
Hmm.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Anyone else?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Space is open love to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): what to hear from folks. And I actually wanna see before we close, if we if anyone who wants to know and has to. But if anyone wants to like, hold up your mind. Not quite done, but and it's very messy. So read it. But hold up your what you drew, because I always feel like that's such a gift. And to see the different ways that we express
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we can hold that bars if you want.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): hmm! Beautiful
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Anyone else.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: I could say a few things. This is Tom. Hi, my first time here as well. I just signed up for the curator
Tom Glaser he/him/his: program, Suzanne and II had a little email exchange with you just recently.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: and I didn't know about this until today. And then. So I could only come to a little bit.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: So II came just in time for the the pie wheel thing, and I found it very helpful. I don't think you you can see very well, but, like the rest.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: slice is huge for me right now. I just moved out of a home that we lived in for 26 years, and we raised our son there into a tiny little condo.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: a massive undertaking. I'm exhausted and burnout. So you mentioned burnout burnout just a minute ago.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: I'm like, Oh, yeah, that's I'm feeling like I can function. But like, I'm crispy. I'm like inside. I'm so irritable. I'm just like everything is bugging me.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: but it's so. It just never ceases to amaze me. How much wisdom there is in Yoga. So just even the little bit that I got was so helpful that okay, like
Tom Glaser he/him/his: like to to remember how important replenishing is, and and to just allow some time now to just recover and
Tom Glaser he/him/his: adjust to these new surroundings.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: yeah. So anyhow, just thank you. Is this, and yeah, just a little that I got the little candle thing that was cool. I I'm sure I missed out on a ton of it, but what I got was was great. And did I get this right?
Tom Glaser he/him/his: I am creating. And is, was it nourishing and balanced life?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes, I'm creating a balanced and harmonious life? Yeah. I'll share, and you can screenshot it if you would like, and I'll share the link
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in the chat. I mean, I literally just Googled because I, as I was sharing, I realized that my
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): writing wasn't gonna be as clear. It's like, let me, Google, someone's life by. And this is
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): this is a lovely one by it's not mine. No, no, I'm mine wouldn't, would look different. Messier. But it's beautiful. Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yeah, thank you. And I wanna just note like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): those things that happen right like big things like moving or transitions in our lives jobs like it.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It really impacts our energies and ways that we don't always realize. And I experience that a couple of years ago, and I moved, even though I chose to move right like I've moved a few times in my life, and some have not been by choice, and like by necessity, and those are very challenging, but even by choice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so disruptive, and Squirrel just jumped from one tree to one branch to another. As I was saying, that outside my window there's
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): there's layers and layers and layers, right energetic, emotional, spiritual, physical, and so coming back to like Yoga Nidra meditation practices all of those nourishment practices way more than I think we realize in these times, and for some of us it also can be change of season, right with the season changing and we need that nourishment
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with the state of the world right? And and not to just go and do it
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in isolation. But to kind of know that we're we're there, and we're recharging and we're replenishing to reconnect in our communities or in in the world. And so to really let ourselves have that time. I think sometimes we think I can't take that time because I have to stay engaged, and I have to be doing things.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): But it's okay, like you can take the time. And then and then we engage.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: And can I just say, too, it just, I love. The little inspirations like these are things I can bring to Yoga, teaching even the little bit that I got
Tom Glaser he/him/his: so far, and I love that I love
Tom Glaser he/him/his: concrete things I can bring immediately to help, not myself and and and my students. Thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm so welcome, Tom, and welcome. I'm so glad you're here, and you made it, and there'll there'll be a recording in the portal if you want to watch the beginning part.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And Jessica says one of the affirmations I wrote around my circle was, I have space to tend to my needs, and there is still enough space for everyone else. Thank you for offering this practice today.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes, Jessica, I love that. Thank you
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so I can't believe we're at our time. It just flows
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): invitation to share in the chat or out loud anything you're gonna be taking with you. I think it's so helpful to sometimes solidify it into like 1 one word or one essence, or one thing that you're taking out
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with you to practice. yeah. we'll close with that.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and appears in the chat
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then invite us to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): close. You can bring your hands together at heart Center.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Take a deep breath in and a full breath out through your mouth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Next inhale, filling up your energy, nourishing yourself.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll chant. oh.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): something.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Shanti. Oh.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): peace, peace, peace, and power, power, power! Power!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you so much for your presence.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you so much for practicing, for sharing with me and the Hatha Yoga tradition. And yeah, sharing yoga and the ways that you do and living it, taking it out. And I'm looking at your reflections.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you can unmute and say goodbye or share your what you're taking with you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Resting, connecting.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Mmm.
Tom Glaser he/him/his: thank you. Bye, everyone.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Bye.
Jayce (she/her): thanks, y'all take care.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Exhale
Caroline (they/she): bye, thank you. Bye.