I Did Everything Right

“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self-contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn’t have any fresh air. There’s no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience. Doing this is setting ourselves up for failure, because sooner or later, we’re going to have an experience we can’t control: our house is going to burn down, someone we love is going to die, we’re going to find out we have cancer, a brick is going to fall out of the sky and hit us on the head, somebody’s going to spill tomato juice all over our white suit, or we’re going to arrive at our favorite restaurant and discover that no one ordered produce and seven hundred people are coming for lunch.”  
― Pema Chödrön

I did everything right.
I did high school right, I did college right, I got the right job after college.
I did relationship right, I did marriage right, I did divorce right.
I did job titles right, I did promotions right, I did career right.
I did everything right.

I believed that if I did LIFE right then everything would be perfect.

That’s not true. Perfect isn’t much fun anyway. Being too comfortable isn’t the same as being happy.

#LoveYourDay
#LoveYourLife
#LoveYourself
#SelfLove
#SelfLoveIsTheBestLove
#SelfAcceptance
#SelfConfidence
#SelfLoveClub
#SelfWork
#wheel #urdvadhanurasana

Unwind

UNWIND
Some of you may not know that I am survivor and thriver from TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) of four years ago.
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That was the last time I lost my eyesight.
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Then it came back but all messed up, confused, wound up, spiraling in unusual ways. My life was headaches, constant pain, dizziness, nausea, imbalance. It is a miracle that I can even walk.
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This week and part of next I am 100% dedicated to healing my BRAIN. I have traveled around the world seeking remedies and treatments, both conventional and mystical and everything in between. I have been both committed to my healing and done an absolutely terrible job of putting myself FIRST. As a result I have delayed deeper healing and allowed things to get worse. This resulted in some serious issues this last couple of weeks.
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I have always had a choice. The trouble with TBI is that we think we know more than what we do sometimes. The universe has given me another wake up call and I am listening.
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This American #Thanksgiving I am #grateful for my doctors here in #Sydney #Australia where I am undergoing various treatments I have never tried before including: NCR NeuroCranial Restructing. I pray for a miracle. I stay hopeful.
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What is that?
NeuroCranial Restructuring is a manipulation process used to unwind the body into its original shape and optimal design. It utilizes careful analysis of the body’s proprioception (balance patterns) to determine the precise areas of the skull needing to be unlocked. This unlocking allows the connective tissues (including the meningeal system) to release their residual tensions and move the bony structures incrementally back towards the body’s original design.
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NCR works by moving the sphenoid bone, the foundation for all other bones in the skull.
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When the sphenoid is wrongly positioned, it can lead to an over imbalance in structure. Once the sphenoid is corrected, everything else in the body can become more functional. This is achieved by allowing the brain to expand once the other cranial bones relax.
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Also working with Craniopathy, Neuro Emotional Technique, Kinesiology, Craniosacral Therapy and more.
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One of the books I am writing is about all the healing I tried around the world on my way back to health. It is about me taking back my life and what I did to break a cycle of self-sacrifice putting everyone first before myself. It is a real story of self-empowerment, self-care, and self-love.
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There will be critics of what I attempted and it doesn’t matter to me. I own my freedom to invest time, energy and money into healing myself. It is through that that I have more to offer the world.

“Seeking Healing Around the World” 

I am mostly resting – like lying down in bed. Just got enough vision back tonight to write this. That is HOW I know my treatments are WORKING.
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Anyhow, if you’re reading this, do me a favor, this Thanksgiving (and even if its not your holiday) take time to be grateful for your health and healing journey. And if you have not been making yourself a priority know you don’t have to be at disadvantage. YOU can choose to stand in your POWER and put your needs first.
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Thank you again to my doctors.
They are helping me UNWIND the pain.
All of the pain.
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http://www.universalhealth.com.au/…/neurocranial-restructu…/
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#gomukasana #yogapose

STOP

STOP
And listen.
That’s what I’ve been doing to try to hear what Spirit wants me to teach around the world in 2019. I’ve been mostly in #silence this past week invested in #stillness and deep listening. I’m surrendering as a conduit of love to be Love, share Love, Teach Love.
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What’s come through thus far is this. 
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❤️ If I can teach anything I’d teach:
Love. Happiness. Healing. Peace.
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Through Meditation. Tribe. Trust. Authenticity.
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I’m digging deep for the drishti of my heart in what this 2019 Tour will be called and my exact programs contained within. I’m feeling this arise:
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🦋 SOULECTING 🦋
Selecting with your Soul.
☀️ Connect to source energy, believe your intuition and trust your soul to know how to fulfill your spiritual happiness by discovering…
✅ who you really are
✅ how to live your dharma
✅ where to live and find your soul tribe
✅ transform your trauma
✅ leave the safe zone, get unstuck from samskara’s
✅ let go of the drama
✅ create rituals and routines for soulful nourishment
✅ nurture your nature
✅ to live mindfullyin.love
✅ with 108 prescriptions for happiness
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As the DreamCatcher
Ready to catch
Your OWN dreams.
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My workshops will include:
1. Dharma over Drama
2. Rituals and Routines
3. Mindfullyin.Love
4. Happiness Prescriptions
5. Be a DreamCatcher
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As I nurture and birth these latest offerings from my innermost heart, channeling the work of Spirit working thru me, I feel them all as expression of the sacred feminine.
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I’m super excited about how these can offer practical ways to live a LIFE Inspired.
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☀️ I’m so fired up to share this with you that if you invite me to teach these in 2018 I’ll say YES!
I don’t want to wait a moment longer. It’s time!
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Especially interested in leading workshops, pop up #yoga classes, speaking engagements in #Australia #Europe and #WashingtonDC area
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Where’s the Yoga?
Well these themes can be condensed into the length of a #yogaclass or presented over hours with no Asana or a combination. You choose!
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You can joyfully reach me at silvia@alchemytours.com
What’s app +1-206-886-5743
www.silviamordini.com
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#teachpeace #alchemyofyoga #alchemyoflove #growyourhappy#awake2love #soulecting #totheheartoftheuniverse #108happinessRx
#mindfullyinlove #dharmaoverdrama #pranayamaoverdramayama
#transformation #change #alchemyofyoga #loveyourself #loveyourday#loveyourlife

HUGS

HUGS

Love this beautiful sister goddess Cole Chance of Cole Chance Yoga to the moon!
You’ll find us holding space for living Beloveds at home in #Bali in 2019. Will we be hugging you too?

THIS EXPERIENCE IS FOR YOU IF:

*Bali is on your Dream List.
*You are seeking adventure
*You are ready to reveal new layers of yourself
*You are curious about healing ceremonies, blessing rituals and heart medicine.
*You want time for intention setting, journaling, Wellness Coaching and to feel extra loved.
*Your seeking a new level of inner peace.
*Reclaim your power to express who you really are.
*You are ready to take your meditation, yoga and spiritual practice to new depths.
*You want to sustain the transformation from retreat with lasting modalities and practical tools.
*You want to make lifelong new high vibe friends

March 17-24, 2019 Bali Yoga Retreat

CLICK HERE FOR MORE https://alchemytours.com/march-17-24-2019-bali-yoga-retreat-with-cole-chance-and-silvia-mordini/

March 31-April 21, 2019 Bali RYT 200 Hour Alchemy of Yoga Teacher Training

CLICK HERE FOR MORE https://www.alchemyofyoga.com/ytt/bali/bali-april-2019/
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#yoga #yogaretreat #yogateachertraining
#travel #travelwithmeaning #soulfuladventure #inspiration #adventuremore#liveadventurously #adventurethatislife #stayandwander #discoverearth#inthewild #alifealive #letsgosomewhere #wherewillwegonext
#yogaverywhere #ourplanetdaily #followyourbliss #alchemytours#omyogatribe #alchemyofyoga #bali #ubud #baliindonesia

Beauty is an Inside Job & Story Alert I Almost Broke my Nose

“You do not understand your features. Your features are not your beautiful nose, your beautiful cheeks, beautiful lips, and so on. These are not your features. Your features are your beautiful behavior, your beautiful character, your beautiful health, your beautiful spirit, your beautiful advice.” #YogiBhajan
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June 16 I almost broke my nose while exploring an underwater cave in the Tyrrhenian Sea. That’s part of the experience when making new adventures 🙂 Anyhow, I’ve had to wear huge hats to protect my face as it healed. And also try to avoid the sun.
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I went to a pharmacy here in Florence today and spoke to the owner and in true Italian style….as I explained to him as best I could in Italian that I was scared of scarring and my Mom was coming in a few days, he told me small imperfections make us the most beautiful. And that I was beautiful, not to worry so much. It touched my heart that he heard me, really connected to my concern and made me feel better all at the same time.
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Our external features are all temporary. #Yoga teaches us life itself is impermanent so to practice #nonattachment. They way we look on the outside will change but our features truly are our beautiful behavior, character, health and spirit. Beauty is indeed an inside job.
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Invoking Green Tara today the goddess of #compassion.
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Photo #tuscany San Gimignano June 28 a rare moment without a hat on 🙂#warrior1 #virabhadrasana

What I do to Prepare to Teach my 27th Yoga Teacher Training

2 words: Fast-twitch Muscles.

I offered my first Yoga Teacher Training in 2005. This is my fourteenth year living out my dharma in this beautiful way. And tonight I am editing the 27th version of our alchemy of yoga teacher training manual. I’ve not spent this much time enhancing, evolving, growing, improving anything else as much as I have this program. It is the culmination of my life’s work.
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Behind the scenes in preparation for our April 1-22, 2018 Bali Teacher Training is a team of amazing Soul Sisters on line every day creating, answering emails, clarifying, discussing, deciding every single part of what is an incredibly curated experience of Sacred Learning. Without @emilyperryyoga and @ferrahchinoyoga along with what feels like life long support from Christina Russo, and contributions for years from Laura Hand and Sarah Erter none of this is possible. As well as the technical upgrade on our NEW www.alchemyofyoga.com website developed by #alchemyofyoga alumni Greg Love owner, founder of www.anydev.com
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What you may not know is before every teacher training I take a look at how old everybody is that’s attending, which this time ranges from 23 years old to 58 years old, pretty typical for our program. And every year as the 23 year old or even twenty year old engages their personal hero’s journey in this program I get a year older. Therefore I have to personally work harder to go through what I call “Yoga Teacher Conditioning”. Each year for the last 13 years I have to do more to prepare physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I am right now in training to give my all as a Teacher Trainer.
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I love it because I want to give my best to everyone that has put their trust in me to fly across the world for this is once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in places like Bali and #CostaRica. I take this responsibility very seriously. And it is the greatest honor of my life. Each student I have the joy of spending 200 hours with I hold in my heart forever.
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In these days of corporate #yoga and Yoga Influencers with 1 million instagram followers and big budget sponsorships I don’t have any of that.
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What I have is experience, 26 graduated classes of Love Alchemists endeavoring to live out our Mission to #teachpeace to a world that needs it more than ever. This teacher training/mystery school is an offering of love from my heart to your heart to the heart of the universe.
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And yes this is my #Yogi #Spin bike with two #malas and some OM energy as I get stronger and stronger to be the crucible and hold space for 24 beloved members of our kula in 10 days.
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I love my #dharma and I love this life!

My Christmas Wish Help Someone

For me on this peaceful Christmas Eve 2017 I have many friends who are not feeling peace & safety.
I’ve been where they are. And maybe you have too.
✨Life is so fragile. ✨
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I have friends suffering with loneliness, illness, crisis and uncertainty. Maybe you do too?
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My #ChristmasWish is that we ALL reach out to one person we know who is suffering. And even more than this, please consider forgiving just 1 human.
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Life is short. Please don’t waste a moment.
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Be a lighthouse person, be a forklift person says #YogiBhajan. Make this night easier for another.
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And to my soul brother who tried to end his life a month ago and is battling to find reasons to live and is by himself in Seattle tonight, excluded by All Friends that were his family, know you are loved. Our Creator is looking over you and is the only one that can judge you, no one else can. We all deserve a second chance. I’ll keep you in my prayers as I know how hard tonight is after such a lonely birthday earlier this week. I love you. 🙏

I Vow to Remain Empowered by the Light of my Soul

On the cusp of the Winter #solstice I renew my vow to remain empowered by the light of my soul and stay true to myself. I know the relationship I’m having with myself is mirrored back by the relationships I attract. If I honor my heart then I am modeling how I should be treated. Here’s to ☀️Growing the light! ☀️
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“May the light within you guide your way on. Because when you look to the outside for light, there is a possibility that you may be blinded and exploited. But one thing shall never betray a woman: her own light and her own radiance as a woman. If the light within you can guide you, you will definitely excel. The time has come when this exploitation must stop. The time has come when a daughter should be treated as a daughter, a mother should be treated as a mother, a wife should be treated as a wife, and over and above all, woman should be treated as a woman.” -Yogi Bhajan
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I bow to the longtime SUN.
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#divinefeminine #sacredfeminine #respect #kundalini #yoga

Photo credit Greg Love @iamgreglove

Looking for Peace? Here’s the Answer

When I was in the corporate world I both loved and strongly disliked Performance Appraisals. I enjoyed the feedback knowing how I was doing but at the same time it would make it harder for next time. The point came where the pressure just went up and up.

We do that in our life. We start giving ourselves a grade on everything when the reality is that it is all just pass/fail. We are passing if we learn to balance positive expectations with acceptance. “Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.” (Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth) Acceptance brings about inner peace, joy and love. Otherwise we find ourselves in a state of fighting what life is offering and it can feel like we are failing at life.

Yoga has without a doubt made me more patient. It helps me move from that state of having too heavy of expectations and grading everything to allowing and accepting.  Don’t get me wrong sometimes it’s still hard not to grade myself at life but for sure I’m better at seeing the whole thing as simply pass/fail.  What’s changed? Well I don’t want to feel that TUG-O-WAR with myself or with anyone else.  Impatience doesn’t feel good and yoga teaches the antidote to impatience is, yes you can guess, patience.  Patience feels good.  It feels like a return to center no matter the chaos or what other people do or don’t do. It feels like compassion, peacefulness and a constant return to balance. When I am patient I feel like I can attempt anything without attachment to the result.

When Patient our minds stop playing the old games of pushing, pulling, creating anxiety, distrust, stress or simple heavy expectations.

It is a simply formula:
Over Expectations = Impatience
Accepting = Patience

Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth writes “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.”  Try it for a week or even a day where you try living in a way where you relieve the heavy expectations of yourself and others and live with less resistance to this isness of now. Instead follow the guidance of the Yoga Sutras which advise “enjoyment is the sweetness of noticing your life right now: smell, taste, feeling, sensation.” This type of enjoyment allows us to receive what life is offering regardless of whether it looks like what we expected.

“You can’t run after contentment it has to find you, all you can do is try to create the space for it.”  (Judith Lasater) We are through yoga really meeting ourselves with no further resistance or pre-qualifications. It is like what Derek Walcott writes about in his poem: So join me feast on your life! Love yourself, love your day, love your life! Silvia

In Yoga School, what poses do you learn to practice, embody and teach?

In Yoga School, what poses do you learn to practice, embody and teach?
During RYT200 Hours #AlchemyofYoga School we focus on these 60 fundamental poses.
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Summary Poses To Know And Be Able To Teach:
• Urdhva Hastasana – Upward Salute from Tadasana
• Ardha Chandrasana A – Half Moon Pose from Tadasana
• Uttanasana – Standing Forward Fold
• Urdhva (Mukha) Uttanasana – Monkey or Upward Facing Forward Fold
• Chatarunga Dandasana – Four-Limb Staff Pose
• Urdhva Mukha Svanasana – Upward Facing Dog (Up Dog)
• Adho Mukha Svanasana – Downward Facing Dog (Down Dog)
• Utkatasana – Fierce/Difficult Pose (aka chair)
• Virabhadrasana I – Warrior 1
• Bhujangasana – cobra
• Anjaneyasana – lunge (high/low)
• Parsvottanasana – pyramid
• Prasarita Padottanasana – wide angle foot spreading posture
• Virabhadrasana III – Warrior 3
• Virabhadrasana II – warrior 2
• Trikonasana – triangle
• Parsvakonasana – side angle
• Parivritta Trikonasana – revolving triangle
• Parivritta Parsvakonasana – revolving side angle
• Parivrtta Ardha Chandrasana – revolving half moon
• Vrksasana – tree
• Garudasana – eagle
• Ardha Chandrasana II – half moon 2
• Hasta Padangusthasana – hand to big toe
• Natarajasana – dancer’s pose
• Shoulder openers
• Purvottanasana – incline plane
• Vasisthasana – side plank
• Salabhasana – locust
• Bhujangasana – cobra
• Dhanurasana – bow
• Ustrasana – camel
• Setu Bandhasana – bridge
• Urdhva Dhanurasana – upward facing bow
• Malasana – garland (aka squat)
• Raja Kapotasana
• Supta Padanghustasana – supine hand to big toe 1, 2
• Janu Sirsasana – head to knee pose
• Ardha Baddha Padma Paschimottanasana – half bound lotus forward bend
• Triang Mukhaikapada Paschimottanasana – three-limb one-foot forward bend
• Marichyasana A – a folding pose named after the sage Marichy
• Dandasana – stick or staff pose (prep for paschimottanasana)
• Paschimottanasana – seated forward bend
• Baddha Konasana – bound angle
• Upavista Konasana – seated angle pose
• Navasana – boat
• Ardha Matsyendrasana – half Lord of the Fish pose
• Marichyasana C – a twisting pose named after the sage Marichy
• Bharadvajasana – a twisting pose named after the sage Bharadvaja
• Supta Parivartanasana – reclining twist
• Bhujapidasana – shoulder squeeze
• Bakasana – crow
• Parsva Bakasana – side crow
• Astavakrasana – eight figure pose
• Koundinyasana A & B – pose named after a sage
• Galavasana – pose named after a sage
• Adho Mukha Vrksasana – handstand (lit. downward facing tree)
• Pinca Mayurasana – tail feather of the peacock (aka forearm balance)
• Sirsasana – headstand