7/24/25 Live Session Recording
If you’re catching up on this session or revisiting the material, please consider sharing what came up for you.
If you’d prefer a prompt, consider reflecting on the following:
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What did you notice during the movement portion of the session, particularly around energetic awareness or your relationship to sequencing?
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How did our discussion of Ahimsa invite you to think differently about non-harming — in your body, your teaching, or your interactions with others?
Your reflections support collective learning, and your voice matters here.
I wanted to hop on here to touch on class because I got roped into work and felt I wasn't fully present. Anyways, I struggle with Ahimsa, the concept, the meaning, and applying it. As I've shared numerous times, I am very angry. My early to mid twenties impending doom and unbearable awareness has set in and everyday I'm faced with Ahimsa in one way or another. I think I do a good job of not inflicting violence on those around me but Ahimsa is sooooo much deeper than that. My thoughts are inherently violent more than I'd like them to be. These aren't thoughts of harming friends or neighbors but the people who run the world. In all honesty, probably 70% of my thoughts are about the world and how we have failed it. The violence I feel is a feral desire to harm the people who are harming the people...but I can't. So there's no outlet, no relief. Accepting things the way they are and accepting that violence will not solve anything either. Also realizing that having those violent thoughts are only harming me.
I love, admire, and respect yoga to its core. But I feel a huge wall in between myself and my practice because I struggle so much with this internal anger/violence. If I see someone in public with a MAGA hat on, I just want to RAGE. I know that wound is fresh and I need to give myself grace but still, feeling that rage/violence is EXHAUSTING. I really look forward to the day that I can more healthily practice Ahimsa. Thanks for being so awesome and real Jen, so much love to you.