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10/05/2023

As a home lonely practitioner IG posting was kind of a way of being held accountable for my practice. But then I had my third child and started a full time 10 hours a day, consultant job and posting was the last of my priorities. I am happy and fulfilled in my hectic new life. However, I have to recognise that sometimes I feel close to the burnout and very often I am dealing with guilt and wishing to have more hours a day to spend with my kids, my friends, or even at work to better finish some particular project. I guess all working mums can relate to that. However, what is helping me keep things together and not fall into a burnout is my yoga practice. No matter what, really no matter what I dress and unroll my Matt. Sometimes is just for a short 10-15 mins “practice”, and sometimes I am blessed with some more time but I feel like I am really beginning to understand the purpose of this practice. It is about it sustaining ur life and not the other way around. I feel stronger and more balanced now, that I have less time to practice but I do it in a more efficient way. I am not progressing at all in my asana practice and that’s just fine: my practice gives me physical and mental strength to handle the rest of the day.
I don’t compromise my sleep, I will never put the alarm, my mental health depends a lot on sleeping, and three young kids around means a lot of troubled nights but as soon as I open my eyes, I put my clothes and jump into my mat. And some days,like today, I have the blessing of not practicing alone ❤️.

30/07/2022

It has been the longest period of my life without a teacher. It’s about two year now that I am mosltly practicing on my own. I am fin with motivation as the benefits of my practice are always overcoming my laziness. However, progression is hard with no assitance or guidance. I am sometimes asking my middle half to help me with somme postures. We teied with yesterday. Not very successfull though 😂😂😂.
Any tips or advices?? I really find impossible to visuallice how to move my loto to my arms… is it even physically possible?? What a challenge 😅😅😅.

24/07/2022

As a mum, some days I accept practice is impossible. Wether it is because of lack of time, energy or strength, I try not to feel guilty and get better organised the following day. But some of those days in which early practice was impossible, you decide just to stand on ur mat on the middle of the day for a few sun salutations, not even changing clothes… and the universe conspires and you end up doing a full practice in your jeans, kids respecting your time on ur mat and your body and mind realising as always that if you don’t try, it’s never going to happen…

16/07/2022

Since I had covid, last december, I am extremely stiff and tired in the morning. More than 6 months ago and I still feel the stiffness all over my body, specially in the morning. I feel it in my practice, specially in . At first I was in denial: “come girl, you can do that” but no, my body would let me… at some point I just threw the towel: “yes, whatever, I don’t care… dropbacks are not yoga, I souldn’t identify with dropbacks, I am not doing them anymore… and there I saw this mental pattern of mine…if I feel rejected, I run away… so I decided to confront the pattern. I have been working again as a beginner. Using the wall, a chair, now I am using a mattress… and slowly slowly I feel my back opening again. It has been a test for my practice and my ego to feel that my body was just shutting down, but this f… covid it’s something heavy.
Anyways, just decided to post that in case it can help others, and it spreads a little bit or information about covid affecting our practices. Did you have covid? Do u still fell it in your practice? Lots of love!

12/06/2022

I haven’t posted for a while. Different priorities have emerged. I found a full time job in a office and I took a break from teaching yoga. But yoga is still in my life. My practice is more chaotic ans very often is a short version of my ideal but I still stand on my mat every single day. Progression is way slower which I really don’t care about. Practice is supporting my daily life and it’s all about it. After 15 years of practice yoga and ashtanga are here to stay… 4ever… is so far away but just trying is so fun. I love been upside down. What is amazing about this practice is that been nearly 42 I feel way stronger and more stable than when I was in my twenties: physically and mentally.
If someone was wondering the reasons why I stopped teaching are a few, but the main ones are that I was pretty exhausted: 16 classes per week +raising three small kids was too much. I also find my “office”job more compatible with my family life as I don’t have to leave early in the morning to teach or have late evening classes. And also, to be fair, I appreciate to be economically independant which I was not, only teaching yoga.
Teaching is super fulfilling for me, so I might come back, maybe through workshops, or I will resume some lessons a week when the kids will grow older. But what I now for sure is that my dear beloved practice, is like printed on my skin. If my body allows it, the practice will be here.

16/01/2022

I love this transition from standing to sitting poses. I very often add it to my practice even when I am only practicing ( ). I feel it’s super grounding and it gives me some extra core power to address all the heart opener work of the second series. It’s my practice, my rules. I am beginning to know what’s good for hyperlax body and my practice is way more healthier and nourishing than it was some years ago.
My advice: listen to your body, listen to your needs, don’t avoid postures or add postures for the sake of it but because it really helps you to have a stronger, healthier body. Make your practice about your well been, physicall and mental well been. 🙏

15/01/2022

are solidly back after nearly a month. Covid recovery is been slow and long but I am taking it easy and letting my body tell me what it can or can’t do, at every breath, every move, every step. That’s the way we should practice, every day, no matter if we are recovering or not from covid or any other illness but we often forget that our practice must sustain us and not the other way around.
My practice is extremely beneficial for me, but often, in the urge to practice to feel better from my fibromyalgia pain I don’t pay attention enough, I push a little too far or I am too immerse in my hectic life that I lose the awareness and I just focus on having the full thing done as quick as possible. When that happens, the benefits of the practice melt down, and I find myself struggling wiht more pain and discomfort and loosing most of the benefits from my practice.
So very often injuries, illnesses, pain are here to ground us and make us pay attention again to the basics: the breath, the bandhas, the awareness. And when that happens, it’s like my relation-ship with the practice reflourishes again.

03/01/2022

Today I practiced in front of the great great grandfather of my dad. This huge intimidating picture on the back is Jacques de Liniers, the last viceroy of the Provincia de la Plata, former name of Argentina. He was an adventurer, he was a seeker. He sailed all over the world and ended up working for the Spanish Crown, even if he was French, and was rewarded for his performance with the Viceroy title which was the representative of the king in foreign lands.
The world keeps spinning and some generations later, I am, Spanish citizen investing some of my knowledge, my energy and time in a French Pacific territory. Far far away from home… I like to think that this drive for travelling and searching might come from him…
I wonder what my old ancestor would have thought of me doing this contorsionists yoga shapes in front of him. I like to think he was open minded and curious and would have maybe joined me. What do u think?

01/01/2022

2021 was not an easy year for many of us. I decided to start the new year with a grounding full primary series after nearly a month of very slowly recocery from covid. It was a slowly nourishing practice as I wish this coming year to be.
A new phase is about to start and this last month has been kind of reborning from ashes. Very often you need to dive deep to the bottom to lever yourself and lift up full of strentgh and energy. 2022, here we come!

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