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Some loves. :) by @betsylovesyoga

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Whenever I’ve had to start over, I’ve always consoled myself with the thought that my new friends, whoever they are, are literally waiting for me to show up so that we can get going on our friendship adventures! 😼😼 by @betsylovesyoga

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How about a year of radical, imperfect action? Just pushing past neurotic cages and doing the thing, whatever the thing is. Mistakes, imperfections and all.
How about a year of the intention to be intentional? Literally the intention to remember to pause, and set an intention.
How about a belief that setting an intention now will be highly effective? That starting NOW - on 12/31/23 (or at any other moment really.. but, NOW), setting an intention will actually work well, and be surprisingly easy for us… easy as 123123… ?
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What if it’s true?
⚡️✨🫶 by @betsylovesyoga

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Hey y’all - I have something fun coming up!
This January 25-29 I am teaching yoga at a retreat/spiritual gathering on the white sand shores of the Gulf Coast of Florida. 🏖️

The 99% quartz crystal beaches make this area world famous for its beauty and healing properties. Several different facilitators will be offering a variety of vibe-raising workshops in things like sacred breath work, chakra alignment, a full moon ceremony, and more.

I am in charge of the yoga portion, so I will be teaching 4 bhakti vinyasa yoga classes - one practice per day, plus I will be leading a special kirtan/sound healing.
You can come for the whole retreat immersion experience, or you can stay nearby, and just pick and choose your classes like a local. 😎

The retreat house is located in Bradenton (fly into Sarasota or Tampa), and the cost is $1100 for the whole thing (including accommodations and delicious food) or $35 per class/workshop.

DM me and I will link you up with the sign up page and the organizer and you can go from there.
Don’t resist January in Florida and the chance to get all bhakti-ed out together… if this sounds good to you, let it be, and just come!
It’s going to be magical ✨ taken in Anna Maria Island, Florida by @betsylovesyoga

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3 years ago

Hi friends! It’s been a minute… (more like a minute plus 2 years)… For those who are curious, I am still out here, but I pivoted HARD during the pandemic…
During teacher trainings, my teacher @stephaniesnyderyoga would sometimes say “don’t be over-attached - to anything, including teaching yoga. What if it became illegal to teach yoga tomorrow?”
I always took this to be hypothetical, and maybe a little dramatic… and then. 😳
So here we are - it’s 2 years later… When everything shut down in 2020, at first I clung to my life… after all, it was a life that I loved, and had spent years building.
But as the months went by, I realized that what I was clinging to was no longer viable for me - not in that form, not at that time, and as much as I hated it, and as scary as it was, I had to let go.
I had to let go or drown.
The yoga says that in times of change, there is always space that opens up, and as yogis, we are supposed to turn towards the space that is available. For me, that meant leaving SF, moving to Florida, and starting a business.
It’s been a crazy ride.
Nothing looks like it did. (Even my own skin... Like for a pale person, dang I’m tan these days!)
I miss SF terribly, and my yoga community, and my psychology community, and all of the friends and connections I made along the way.
I hope to someday be back.
But it’s not going to happen yet…
not yet.
Because now I have irons in the fire down here in FL, and slowly but surely those babies are getting hot! So it’s time to stay the course. For now. But the good thing about pivoting hard once before is I know that when the time is right, I will do it again.
Change is the only constant, and now I suppose I am truly, finally, not attached anymore, or clinging to any outcomes.
In the meantime, I still practice - especially those two stalwart sister principles of yoga: patience and persistence.
It’s just that here, practice happens at the beach. So it’s different, and of course - in other ways, it’s always the same.
In my teacher’s words, “you close your eyes, and I’ll close mine, and I’ll see you in outerspace”. 🧖‍♀️ by @betsylovesyoga

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I miss singing with you guys! Join me for a Yoga-Sing-Along on Sunday at 10am PST (and yoga at 9am)... Link is in bio (or DM me your email for this week’s class links). NOW SING! 😊 by @betsylovesyoga

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Betsy’s Online Yoga Studio (B.O.Y.S!) is open for business and in full on Bhakti Beta Testing mode! Next class linked in my bio, or DM me your email address and I will send you the links for the week.
Come as you are! #noshirtnoshoesfullservice
CURRENT SCHEDULE:
—-Bhakti Flow Yoga:
M, Tu, W at 5pm PST —-Sunday Flow and Sing Your Heart Out
Yoga at 9am PST
Yoga-Sing-Along at 10am PST ✨ by @betsylovesyoga

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“I had to make you uncomfortable, otherwise you never would have moved.”
- God 🥀🍃🌹 taken in Golden Gate Park by @betsylovesyoga

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Om asatoma sadgamaya....
Take these broken wings and learn to fly... all your life you were only waiting for this moment to arise. by @betsylovesyoga

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7 years ago

Hey guys - I started a YouTube channel! It’s called betsylovesyoga - because, well, I DO! 💁‍♀️
Now we can practice anywhere, anytime... 🥳
There will be more ways that I will be entering the online teaching space in the days and weeks to come.... But first things first - things are complicated enough right now, so here it is: simple, easy, accessible, straight-forward, YouTube-a-rific!
This is my gift to you, so take it, and tell your friends! If you wish to support my work further, you can donate through Venmo @betsylovesyoga
Right now I have this ⬆️18 min ‘Yoga Vitamin’ up, as well as a 70 min Bhakti Flow class that is specifically intended to provide strategies and encouragement for those with any type of upper body injury (arms, shoulders, wrists, hands etc), who still want to practice full on, vinyasa flow style yoga. ... And since it’s ‘full on’ - that means you don’t actually ‘need’ an upper body injury to enjoy the practice. 😉
Ok! Keep calm and practice on! ♥️ taken in The Internets by @betsylovesyoga

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Post-ocean-swim-dance-brush-with-death-yoga....
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#headsup #lifeisbeautiful #dancethrough #goallthewayunder
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(Hey - see y’all tomorrow (Saturday) at Yoga Flow Ocean at 9am!) taken in San Francisco, California by @betsylovesyoga

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Friends: I am humbled, honored, and PSYCHED to announce that, starting this week, I will be teaching the Saturday 9am class at Yoga Flow, Ocean Ave!
Have you been there yet? It is, quite literally, a temple. 🏛
Oh yeah - WITH childcare. 👼
... The perfect place to come to the mat and offer the practice as prayer. 🧘
(And you know we’re about to get FUNKY in there - so - respectfully - you best be ready to WERK!)
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Like any yoga teacher, I am first a student, and I cling to the feet of my teachers. @stephaniesnyderyoga @rustywellsyoga @bradyoga @dharmayogacenter @lisamillerphd - THANK YOU.
When I begin my practice each day, the first thing is, I try to remember God/The Big Something Bigger - and that I am, somehow, a part of that. 😮🤯🎉
Then I roll over and say each of your names, out loud.
I remember each of you, every day. 🧖‍♀️🧖🧖🧖‍♂️🧖‍♀️
And then I go out there and try to do you all proud. I try to remember and embody all that you’ve taught me.
Of course, I’m still a weird little human, so it doesn’t always go like that... But I am committed to coming back again and again... to trying and trying till I run out of tries.
I am grateful to each of you for figuring out how to shine your light bright enough for others, like me, to see.... so that I can figure out how my own light works, and then shine it up so others can see and get their own lights working, and so on.. Until not a single lamp remains unlit, until the path appears bright as day, until we overcome all the darkness, together.
One light at a time.
One breath at a time.
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See you on Saturday mornings☀️ - or check my website (link in bio) for my whole dang sched. (And a special thanks to @yogaflowsf and @yogaflowmama for being a flashpoint of manifestation and light in this maybe-not-so-scary-afterall universe! )
♥️🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️ taken in Yoga Flow SF by @betsylovesyoga

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