The Yogic Path is THE Best for Healing
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Make Yoga Your Lifestyle Choice
Yoga Recovery Pittsburgh, provides donation-based yoga classes, weekend retreats, and special events for the public. These services are a beautiful complement to our therapeutic offerings and highly recommend connecting with this community to further enhance your healing journey.
So what does a "yogic lifestyle" look like?
Following the Yamas & Niyamas
Connecting with Others Authentically
Following the Yamas & Niyamas
The Yamas and Niyamas are the first two branches of an 8-limbed system developed by the "Father of Yoga" - Patanjali - and described in "The Yoga Sutras" developed prior to 200 CE. They teach us how to live with integrity and balance through kindness, humility, respect, self-awareness, and more.
Consistent Movement Practice
Connecting with Others Authentically
Following the Yamas & Niyamas
Whether yoga asana (physical postures) resonates with you or not, it is important to keep the body moving. We only have one physical vessel in this lifetime, and it's a complex system that requires maintenance to work efficiently. Movement also builds our capacity for self-love and self-awareness.
Connecting with Others Authentically
Connecting with Others Authentically
Connecting with Others Authentically
The root of conflict between people is very often misunderstanding. It's easy to filter our words in order to protect ourselves (or others); but that means we're communicating through fear. By practicing self-love, we learn to communicate truthfully and authentically, which is the key to breeding respect.
Finding Ways to be of Service
Maintaining Consistency, Adaptability, and Resilience
Connecting with Others Authentically
Bhakti Yoga is the practice of devotion and service. You don't need to have a "god" or higher power, but finding purpose and serving that purpose gives us direction and structure. When we consistently offer help for its intrinsic value, we also diminish the powers of selfishness, egoism, scarcity, resentment, grief, and avoidance.
Gratitude, Contentment, and Acceptance
Maintaining Consistency, Adaptability, and Resilience
Maintaining Consistency, Adaptability, and Resilience
If we cannot radically accept our current circumstances, regardless of how challenging they are, we will be in a constant state of reaching for something outside of us to feel happy. We are fully responsible for our own state of mind. Finding the lesson in everything we do creates an attitude of gratitude, which leads to contentment.
Maintaining Consistency, Adaptability, and Resilience
Maintaining Consistency, Adaptability, and Resilience
Maintaining Consistency, Adaptability, and Resilience
The only constant in life is change. Setting goals and standards for operating keeps us focused and motivated. However, if we cling too tightly to one way, we lose perspective, and the ability to accept a variety of circumstances as equally valid. We are each on an individual path in life, and there is no right way, or right time - it simply IS.