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Monique Minahan

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I trust your body knows exactly how to fill up a shape in just the right way given your history, your stories, and where you are emotionally, energetically and physically today. . Aligning with that is what I call good alignment. . Yoga today, 5pm @gatherencinitas _____________________________ #takeyouryogaback #traumainformedyoga
Love is not too strong a word... for that smile we exchanged, that kind gesture, that long hug or prayer you said for me, for how we laughed at the same time or awkwardly and inappropriately. For how our eyes light up when we say hello every day or month or year. For that one random amazing conversation we had or how after surviving that time together on the mountain or in the ocean or in the darkness or that difficult conversation we feel bonded forever. For the softening in my heart when I hear your story and the layers of difference seem to melt away. For the spark of connection, small and brief or big and forever. . Love is not too strong a word for you and you and you and you and all the yous who cross my path, walk with me for a stretch, make my day or buoy my heart by showing up fully human and allowing me to show up fully human too. __________________ #love2point0
come shake the dust or shake the shadows or shake the brain fog or shake the monday blues (and get a peek at that full moon on your way out)... there’s a whole spacious y o u under all that stuff, I promise xox ✨5:00 today at Gather Encinitas✨ . image:: embodied NO in warrior II (with the bonus active wrist extension) make it an embodied YES by spinning the palms open but keeping the legs pulling into your center and maintain the boundary with extended arms
the more he grows into a little man the more I understand what it is to be a male human in this world to be shaped powerfully by the woman we called mother and the man we called father how they chose to show up (financially, emotionally, physically, spiritually or not at all) how they chose to love (with words or acts or softness or hardness or not at all) . I do my best to soften for him in the ways love can soften best and to display strength and righteous anger and the power they hold so he can walk his own path as a man perhaps a husband father leader embodying a strong love that his bones know more than his mind kindness that his heart chooses from love instead of guilt . I fail often because I am the last in a line of survivors who know hardness first and love last who know tough is safe and vulnerability is dangerous to the ego . I succeed often because I slam the brakes on generational trauma that tries to pass through my mouth and mothering . we are finding a new way forward, inward and onward, toward humanity, healing and hope
whatever is living in you, growing in you, struggling in you, dying in you... perhaps you craft a prayer, gratitude or intention around it... perhaps you simply wrap your heart around it and hold it for a while. __________________ the invitation I’ve been offering in my classes lately and to myself in my own practice (of being human.)
hello j u n e... only eleven days late. I transition slower the older I get. thank you for the splashes of sun and hints of what is to come. you keep me coming home to me.
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