GetintotheGap

12/31/2025

Ahimsa 🤍
Do no harm to all beings — including ourselves.
As we step into the new year,
may all beings be healthy, joyous, and free.
May we be safe with one another and practice loving-kindness.
May each of us have the restraint, the awareness, and the love in our hearts
to practice non-violence in all actions — and even in our thoughts.
And may we also be patient and kind with ourselves when we are imperfect.
May we give ourselves grace,
because nonviolence must begin within —
with our own Being.
When we slow down, meditate, and spend time in stillness,
we begin to notice how we react —
in traffic, in the grocery line,
with a server who may be tired or rude,
or when a loved one feels short with us.
May we all have the ability to practice loving-kindness,
especially on social media.
There is too much violence in the world.
My wish for the new year:
peace on earth, and peace to all beings. 🤍

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11/26/2025

11/17/2025

Are you aware of how powerful meditation is?Because science is finally finally catching up.. Ask me how ask me why ask me to help you experience it.

11/12/2025

Join me for Vinyasa Flow today 6 pm Stuart Banyan Soul Yoga ..

Today ... as the weather finally cooled and we nest indoors .we have time for reflection... what to do next...about this about that about everything... are we feeling overwhelmed by how the approaching holidays pressure us to do do do..

What if... we surrender...what if... we take time for ourselves to go inward...and trust that the our Innate intelligence knows exactly what is best for us... but you can only hear that wisdom when we get still...let's celebrate surrender.. together ❤️

11/09/2025

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11/02/2025

What Is Stillness?

What truly is stillness? What are the fluctuations of the mind?
And how can awareness of both help us?

Yoga teaches us that:

“Yoga is the cessation (nirodhaḥ) of the fluctuations (vṛtti) of the mind-stuff (citta).”
(Yoga Sutra 1.2)

It’s probably the most cited—and perhaps the most important—sutra in the entire path of yoga.

But what does it really mean? And what does it have to do with stillness?

Most people, when they think of meditation, believe it means getting rid of all thoughts or sitting in perfect silence.
How do I know? Because this is exactly what people tell me when they first start to learn.

They think, “I can’t stop my thoughts, so I must be doing it wrong.”

But as many great teachers remind us, meditation isn’t about getting rid of thoughts—it’s about changing our relationship to them. Thoughts arise naturally, like waves on the ocean. What yoga teaches is how to rest in the awareness beneath those waves.

As I sit in my backyard tonight, I’m contemplating some deep pain and sadness. The pool before me is quiet and still, yet I know its water is alive—molecules constantly moving, currents shifting invisibly beneath the surface.

Beside it, the hot tub ripples gently—no jets on, just small undulations catching the light. The contrast reminds me of the ocean when I dive:
on the surface, the waves may crash and churn, but as soon as I descend, just a few feet down, everything becomes calm.

There’s movement everywhere—fish darting, plants swaying—but the feeling is stillness. Not the absence of motion, but the absence of disturbance.

The Mind and Its Depths

The mind is like that ocean. On the surface, the vṛttis—the thought-waves—rise and fall. They’re not “bad.” They’re simply what the mind does.

Without the mind, we couldn’t think, plan, create, or love. But unless we learn how to relate to it with awareness, it can pull us into its turbulence.
Stillness, then, is not a blank screen. It’s the depth beneath the movement—the awareness that watches, without judgment, as thoughts come and go.

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11/02/2025

🌊 This isn’t another retreat....this will be the one to change your life forever. .. Tall promise.. I know. I am that confident.

This isn’t another retreat.
It’s not a photoshoot in paradise or a week of pretty poses ((although your pro suits are included)..
It’s where you meet yourself again — beneath the noise, beneath the fear.
It will lead you to finally conquer that which is holding you back... sitting at peak in lineup? Getting on the board to begin with?
Quitting your job? Leaving that bad relationship?
Starting your new business.
Flow Without Fear • El Salvador • March 14–20 2026
Yoga • Meditation • Breathwork • Surf



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10/27/2025

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You know you need this. You know you want this.
What are you waiting for? There is no excuse when it comes to your wellness —
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Yoga • Meditation • Breathwork • Surf • Connection

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10/25/2025

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10/23/2025

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10/21/2025

Discover the power of primordial sound mantra meditation. Join Shari next week Tues Oct 21st for a 90-minute online class. Learn to meditate effectively and reduce stress. Click the link in bio ('Intro to primordial sound..")to register!