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ATTENTION: For those that take live classes, there won't be a live class next Thursday the 24th due to the holiday. Happy Thanks Giving! 🍁 
Greetings <<First Name>>,

This week we held the intention of holding compassion for yourself. But perhaps it's easier to start with compassion towards someone else in order to develop the ability to lend it back towards yourself. 

"Realizing that the other person is also just like me is the basis on which we can develop compassion.” —His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Begin by becoming aware of an individual that you may not know or someone you don't care for. Then silently repeat these phrases while imagining this person:

-This person has a body and mind, just like me
-This person has feelings, emotions, & thoughts, just like me
-This person has experienced physical & emotional pain & suffering, just like me
-This person has at some time been sad, disappointed, angry, or hurt, just like me
-This person has felt unworthy or inadequate, just like me
-This person worries & is frightened sometimes, just like me
-This person will die, just like me
-This person has longed for friendship, just like me
-This person wants to be content with what life has given them, just like me
-This person wishes to be free from pain & suffering, just like me
-This person wishes to be safe & healthy, just like me
-This person wishes to be happy, just like me
-This person wishes to be loved, just like me

Then...
-I wish this person to be free from pain & suffering
-I wish this person to be peaceful & happy
-I wish this person to be loved, because this person is a fellow human being,
Just Like Me


**from the book, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying, by Mirabai Bush and Ram Dass

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"What’s New This Week"

  • Mudra:  Karuna (Compassion). You will instantly feel how this mudra hugs your heart. Try it out. 
 
  • Breath: Dirgha Purak to start (extended inhales); Dirgha Rechack (extended exhales) to complete
 
  • Chair Yoga: "Compassion Flow" 60min --Keep kindness and compassion towards YOURSELF, close in this practice. Further is not better. Longer holds are not better. Moving out of comfort is not better. Choose you. This moment. 
 
  • Strong & Steady: "Strength with Compassion" 60min-- Within strengthening, we can find compassion. For what we're able to do today, vs dwelling on what we can't do. You will grow stronger in body AND mind. 
 
  • Therapeutic Yoga: no class this past week
 
Remember you can FAVORITE  ❤️ content for easy access. 
To find the above practices, look for the NEW content or search for the key words in the practice in the library. 
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Move your body, Center your mind,
Tianna Meriage-Reiter, DPT, C-IAYT

  
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