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You Are Never Not Your Self: Divine Love Manifested

Posted by Kidecia King on December 21, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

You are Pure Divine Love manifested. And this Love, alone, is more than sufficient for providing “you” with all that is wanted and “needed” in this world. Your Love, alone, expressed unconditionally to yourself, and extended out to the greater … Read More … Read More

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Does Maya Have A Hold On You? Free Yourself And Be Your Self

Posted by Kidecia King on December 10, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

In the same way that it is ignorant to run after pleasure or to run from pain (since life will inevitably bring both), it is equally idiotic to run from pleasure or to run toward pain (common sense alone makes … Read More … Read More

Tags: be yourself, inner liberation, liberation, mind mastery, practice, self awareness, self-realization, Yoga

True Love Is In All (Unconditionally Expressed, Not Transactionally Given)

Posted by Kidecia King on December 7, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

True Love is unconditional, not bound to a specific person(a), place, nor thing. Love just is…non specific, and not directed in any way for any particular purpose/reason. Reflecting the nature of the Self, and pure consciousness itself, Love is infinite … Read More … Read More

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5 Things You Are Naturally Good At (Especially When You Get Your Ego Out Of The Way)

Posted by Kidecia King on December 6, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

“Ignorance is regarding the impermanent as permanent, the impure as pure, the painful as pleasant and the non-Self as the Self” (Sutra 2.5), and this state of mind is a breeding ground for all kinds of unfortunate karmas and ways … Read More … Read More

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Key Ways Of Knowing In Yoga

Posted by Kidecia King on October 15, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

There is a reason that one of the most important ways of knowing in Yoga (a fundamental aspect of the field’s epistemology) is through direct experience with clear/undistorted (“uncolored”) awareness. This kind of knowing gives you the advantage of clarity … Read More … Read More

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Yoga Tip/Challenge # 22: Eustress, We Stress, Let’s All Reduce Distress

Posted by Kidecia King on September 13, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

How to tell the difference between growing pains and alarming/alerting pain That Signals, And Leads To Further, Distress: If you move into pose or experience and your discomfort fades as you melt into your new position, lessens as you move … Read More … Read More

Tags: asana, asana practice, distress, eustress, growing, honoring your truth, human development, inner knowing, inner seeing, interoception, intuition, practice, self development, self respect, self-care, self-love, Trauma, trauma informed, Yoga, yoga practice

Stop Lying: Acknowledge When It’s You

Posted by Kidecia King on July 27, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

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Tags: eight-limbed path, mind mastery, practice, truth, yama, yamas, Yoga

No Worries Homo-Sapien…There’s No Shame In Being An Animal

Posted by Kidecia King on July 26, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

Have you ever heard someone call another person a “dog,” “snake,” “cow,” “pig” or the title of any other adorable creature and mean it to be an insult? What was more offensive or repulsive? The vicious intentions of that person … Read More … Read More

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What is Yoga? The True Definition (Beyond Physical Exercise) | An Important And Overlooked Truth

Posted by Kidecia King on July 25, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

Yoga, translated into English as “yoking,” which according to the Merriam Webster dictionary means “to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole,” or which is most commonly translated simply as “union,” meaning “to join … Read More … Read More

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What Is Eight-Limbed Yoga? | Ashtanga | Raja | The Eightfold Path

Posted by Kidecia King on July 22, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

Eight-Limbed Yoga, also called Ashtanga Yoga (different from the physical practice of the same name), Raja (Royal) Yoga, or the Eightfold Path (particularly in Buddhism), to name a few titles, is a spiritual model that expresses and maps the natural … Read More … Read More

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