Marlena Stevens Yoga

11/16/2025

Don't wait for others to choose you. Choose yourself today.

11/12/2025

morning yoga flow for beginners 💜

11/09/2025

🧘‍♀️ Balance isn’t found—it’s built.
Every wobble, breath, and comeback is part of the practice.
Keep creating your center. ✨💪

11/09/2025

The mat doesn’t ask you to be strong, flexible, or flawless.
It asks you to be honest.
To show up as you are, to feel what you feel, and to move from truth rather than expectation.
As teachers, we can help our students remember that yoga isn’t a performance, it’s a practice of presence.

10/27/2025

Take a moment to be proud of yourself...



Healing Hearts
Live Love Laugh

10/20/2025

Most of the prisons we live in are invisible.
They’re not built of walls and iron — but of beliefs, fears, attachments, and stories we keep repeating in our minds.

We say we can’t change, can’t let go, can’t be happy until something outside changes — but in truth, the bars are inside.
Every “I should,” “I must,” “I can’t,” and “I need” adds another layer to the mental cage we build around our own spirit.

Buddhism calls this dukkha — the suffering that comes from clinging and aversion.
When we hold too tightly to our thoughts, identities, or expectations, we become trapped by them.
But when we learn to watch the mind instead of believing every thought it produces, a space opens.
That space is freedom.

Meditation isn’t about stopping thoughts — it’s about seeing them clearly, understanding they’re just passing clouds in a vast sky.
When you realize that you are not the cage, but the sky itself — open, silent, boundless — no thought can imprison you again.

Freedom begins not with changing your life, but with changing your relationship to your thoughts.
The door has always been open.
You just have to notice that the cage was never locked.

☸️ "When the mind is free, the world is free."

10/16/2025

This is so true..

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10/15/2025

YIN YOGA SEQUENCE TO RELEASE TIGHT HIP FLEXORS

10/15/2025

Life isn’t meant to be a constant struggle — yet we often make it harder by clinging to what was or worrying about what’s next. True peace begins the moment you decide to embrace the now, exactly as it is.

✨ When you are fully present, you stop replaying the past and predicting the future. You begin to see that this moment — this breath — is enough.

✨ When you set clear intentions and take actions that align with your values, life begins to flow instead of fight back. You stop chasing everything and start attracting what’s meant for you.

✨ When you allow yourself to evolve, even if it means outgrowing old versions of yourself, old relationships, or old dreams, you create space for your next chapter to unfold. Growth often feels uncomfortable, but it’s how your soul expands.

✨ When you take time to ground yourself — to breathe, walk, pause — you return to your center. You realize that stillness is not stagnation; it’s strength.

✨ When you choose joy, even in small moments — the warmth of sunlight, a smile from a stranger, the sound of rain — you remind yourself that happiness isn’t something to find; it’s something to feel.

✨ And when you rest, without guilt or self-judgment, you learn that productivity doesn’t define your worth. You can pause and still have purpose.

Life doesn’t suddenly become perfect — but it becomes lighter, softer, and more meaningful when you stop resisting and start being.