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Which style of Yoga is Best for You?

•November 5, 2020

•Namita Piparaiya

Chakrasana, pranayama, sunset yoga

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What’s a mud crab? . 🛶My husband & I were wal

What’s a mud crab?
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🛶My husband & I were walking along the river last evening when I saw a small row boat with two local men intently scanning the river. One had a torch, the other a stick and it seemed like they’d lost something. We called out to them asking if all was well.
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🙌🏼They assured us all was good and that they were simply looking for a “Mud Crab”.
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🦀 And then went on to explain how it’s a jumbo size crab which they can sell for upto Rs. 1000 in the market. Not wanting to disturb them further, we wished them luck and continued our walk, and they carried on with their search.
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🌚 On our return, it was dark and they were still searching. I started to feel bad and also guilty seeing them work so hard. I contemplated giving them the 1000 Rs so they could end their search and go back home, but I wasn’t sure how it would be construed. And a part of me was rooting for them to find the crab, I may even have jumped in to help them find it if I had any expertise.
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📍Which was odd. I have a tender spot for animals and while I am indifferent to what anyone eats, I would never have thought that I would even think about helping an animal get caught.
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❣️I was sharing this dissonance with the husband - Why am I willing to help them search for the crab while I also do not want the crab to get caught!
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☀️And his answer struck a chord: Right now you’re more concerned about these people and their search since their livelihood depends on it. The mud crab is incidental - because what they are searching for is not important; what’s important to you is the fact that they are honestly and diligently trying to make a living.
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☘️And that’s just what it was. These were real people, working with their hands, for their real families and not big machines or corporations plundering the sea for invisible shareholders.
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🛶I don’t know if they ever found that mud crab, but they left me with a whimsical feeling and a reiteration to always look at life through multiple perspectives. Because if we get stuck with just one viewpoint, we would miss out on the experience called life and the beautiful fleeting connections we can make with other human beings #lifestories 💖

Your immunity and your mood . 🌱When you’re do

Your immunity and your mood
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🌱When you’re down with an infection or any sickness, the body naturally starts showing depressive symptoms - feeling tired, social withdrawal, loss of appetite, inability to concentrate etc. This is the immune system’s way of prioritising your recovery over other things.
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🌱It does that so it can put you on the bed and focus most of its efforts on fixing the issue at hand. Bed rest reduces your energy requirement, remaining energy is then channelled by the immune system to fight and eliminate whatever is bothering you. If you use up the extra energy for other tasks your healing gets delayed.
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🌱Therefore, remember, that when you pop an unprescribed pill and go about your day without resting - you’re overruling your body’s defence mechanism, you’re making it difficult for the immune system to do its job and rather you’re making it overwork as you increase its responsibilities by not resting.
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🌱Our bodies are resilient enough to handle such overruling occasionally. But keep doing this repeatedly and an untimely bodily malfunction maybe waiting for you.
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🌱Therefore, make time for rest. When the body feels tired and fatigued instead of pumping it with energy drinks, try resting for a few days. And see if that helps you eliminate the root cause of your problems.
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What is moderation? . 🌱Moderation is not “doi

What is moderation?
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🌱Moderation is not “doing less” - people often think that moderation is something boring that is not applicable in their practical achievement-oriented world. I wholeheartedly disagree–in fact, I’ll go so far as to say that the only route to sustainable success is moderation.

☘️Here’s why.
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🌱Because moderation is simply doing whatever you do within your capacity or limits. Which means, if you want to do more, you need to work on increasing your capacity first.
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☘️Let’s take workouts or yoga as an example.
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🌱Moderation in exercise doesn’t mean doing easy-going workouts. 20 sun salutations may be moderate for someone whereas 5 maybe too intense for someone else. Therefore, moderation here simply means that in order for you to do more intense workouts you need to start with foundations first. Jumping into things because they’re trendy without sufficient training or understanding of your capacity would be complete lack of moderation.
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☘️Let’s take running a business as another example.
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🌱 As an entrepreneur it may seem that you just can’t run a business without pushing yourself to the bone. That often results in burnout, and loss of motivation. Whereas in order to “do more” an entrepreneur needs to increase working capacity by building a team or purchasing equipment/tools or collaborating etc. And consistency only comes if you work smartly within your capacity otherwise you’ll just end up with a handful of days of high productivity and many more days where you’re just plonked on the bed demotivated or exhausted.
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☘️That’s what moderation means to me - to be aware of your capacity, to develop patience and consistency in your efforts and not let ego get in the way. Because when impatience, ego and lack of prudence rule our life, we start causing destruction - either of the self through disease, depression or burnout or destruction of something else like relationships, society or environment.
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#yoganama #mindfulliving #moderationiskey #everythinginmoderation #healthyliving #egoistheenemy #manymoods #moods_in_frame

What does it feel like to be trapped? To not be ab

What does it feel like to be trapped? To not be able to be yourself. To always have to conform to someone else’s standards? To not have basic freedom to just be?
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When I got divorced, I was abundantly clear about one thing - I would not remarry into a family that won’t accept me as I am. Though eventually I gave up, mostly resigned to the idea of being alone as literally everyone I came across expected women to toe the line.
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Either I got lucky or my strong desire for such a family manifested and I met my wonderful husband and a mother in law who since day one says “she sees something special in me”. And I have complete freedom to be myself. I even met my husband’s wonderful group of friends - men, who treat their wives as equals and are nothing like the kind of life I left behind. I don’t know how my life turned around, but it did.
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Till I found myself on social media with dreams and ideas about yoganama.
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The patriarchy, chauvinism, verbal violence resurfaced with gusto. It was familiar territory, I’d been judged and body shamed before. But it was more ruthless than real life ever was. People are at their worst when they can anonymously type on dehumanised screens.
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For a bit it threw me off and was rather traumatic. My mother jokingly calls me “dabang” yet for a while I was stumped at what kind of hell hole had I fallen into.
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Either I could wrap up this crappy social media world and give up on yoganama or I could continue pushing through. I chose the latter and that’s why I’m here today.
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Because in this harsh and ruthless jungle we also find our tribe. People who are kind, supportive and align with your world view. Where we get together and share common ideas. Where we are human, not animals.
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So, even though social media can seem like a jail of its own kind. It doesn’t have to be - if we stay focussed on the good and keep pushing the envelope against the bad. If we just don’t give up. And the best way to not give up, is to keep focus on the good folks and invest our time in them. ❤️
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#womensupportingwomen #dontgiveup #strongwomen #mybodymychoice #stopbodyshaming #youvegotthis #beyourself💯

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