Align Within Yoga

01/01/2026

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✍️ In this life, we carry so much. We carry the harm we’ve done—words spoken in anger, actions taken in haste, thoughts that led to suffering for others and ourselves. We carry the wounds others have given us—the betrayals, the misunderstandings, the deliberate cruelties. And perhaps heaviest of all, we carry the damage we’ve inflicted upon ourselves.

All of this weight, accumulated over years, keeps us from peace. It creates enemies where there could be friends. It builds walls where there could be connection.

But there is a way to set it down.

🙏 Place your left hand on your heart. Your right hand on top. Close your eyes and breathe deeply.
Now imagine yourself standing before you. Inside this body is an angel and this angel is crying. Asking for something you alone can give: Forgiveness.

✨ For all the ways you’ve caused harm through your actions, your words, your thoughts—acknowledge them. Not with shame, but with honesty. Open your kind heart and say:
I honestly forgive myself.

✨ For all those who have wronged you, who have brought you pain—see them clearly. Then release them:
I freely forgive you.

✨ And for yourself—for all the ways you’ve betrayed your own goodness, abandoned your own needs, hurt your own heart:
I freely forgive myself.
Feel the weight lifting. Feel the space opening.

💫 Now, into that space, let loving-kindness flow.
Love alone is not enough. We must pair it with kindness—the quality that stands opposite to hatred and anger. Together, they become the medicine for everything that divides us.

Begin with yourself:
May I be well, happy, and peaceful.

Then let it expand outward like light from a flame:
May my parents be well, happy, and peaceful.
May my family be well, happy, and peaceful.
May my friends be well, happy, and peaceful.

Don’t stop there. Keep going:
May indifferent people be well, happy, and peaceful.
May unfriendly people be well, happy, and peaceful.
May even my enemies be well, happy, and peaceful.

And finally, embrace all beings everywhere:
May all beings in this universe be well, happy, and peaceful.
May suffering ones be suffering free.
May the grieving shed all grief.
May all beings find relief.

🌍 This is how we create a new earth—not through grand gestures or distant hopes, but through the quiet, courageous work of forgiving and loving. Starting with ourselves. Expanding to include everyone. Holding nothing back.

When you open your eyes, the world hasn’t changed.
But you have.
And that changes everything.

May you and all beings be happy and at peace. 🙏

12/25/2025

12/25/2025

Happy Holiday, everyday.
In and from the heart.

"Your love is just a Reminder find your Center.
Give yourself this gift from time to time."
~trevor hall~

12/21/2025

Happy solstice and the begin of the return of the light. ✨

12/21/2025

Give yourself Grace this Holiday season.🎁
"Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion."
- Stephen Levine

12/09/2025

“Yoga is meant for everyone. Nobody is excluded from it. Whether they are men, women or children, elderly or aged people, diseased or disabled, the path of yoga is open to everyone. However, you have to practise according to your physical, mental and spiritual capacity. Yoga is meant to give us a way to discover or rediscover ourselves. It teaches us how to find the great margin of maximum capacity that we have inside us so that we are able to expose ourselves to ourselves and find out what we really are. When I say that you have to adapt according to your capacity, I mean that you have to find out the potentiality, or the potential energy, that you all have inside and how to bring it to the surface in order to utilise it properly. Yoga exposes inner hidden potentialities. In fact, there is nothing in yoga which dictates who has to do what. Yoga is universal in this sense. It is inappropriate to say, “Do and do not do”. We do not say that this is not to be done or that is to be done. To make such differentiation there has to be some cause. Patañjali says that we have to find out what stage we are at and what our level is. We need to know what our energy is, what our po-
tency is, what we can do and so on. As we proceed further, we have to see that we achieve every step gradually.

In other words, there is no barrier, there is no restriction, no demarcation as such. The words Patañjali uses like potentialities or capacities, are certainly very meaningful, since not everyone has the same energy levels, not everyone can put in the same amount of effort. The power to grasp is not the same in everyone. The practitioner has to understand subjectively the potentialities he or she has and try to expose them to the yogic path rather than exploit them.”
~ Geeta Iyengar
(7 Dec 1944 - 16 Dec 2018)

12/06/2025

The power of yoga can be life-changing. Physical benefits include increased muscle strength and tone, as well as greater flexibility and balance; and mental benefits include sharpened concentration and increased mental clarity and calmness.🙏

We invite you to live, thrive, and belong through our collection of online classes. Visit veteransyogaproject.org/vyp-classes to sign up for a yoga class any day of the week! 💛

12/06/2025

When we live through this, we know it to be true.
It's liberating to be aware and adapt, adjust and shift.
Carry on.
Move forward.

12/02/2025

Wishes for the end of 2025.✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

11/29/2025

I do believe in this ... and maybe at least one or two of these resonates with you too!
Taking the time to be intentional about our process will bring us more awareness.🩵

11/12/2025

Its an Honor to teach yoga to Veterans, in whatever space we can find.🪖💙

Thank you to all Veterans.
Om shanti🤍

11/04/2025

So much .... this!!!!
Right now!!🧡🩵

"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forego the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do."
- Hermann Hesse