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GM nostr! It’s Monday and I’m getting ready for our weekly #yogastr class ✨ 1 Hour Relaxing Hatha Yoga Mondays at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET Virtual on @HiveTalk This class will always be donation-based #v4v and suited to most levels of fitness and experience, so anyone can jump in See you there 🙏 #yoga #wellness #spirituality https://hivetalk.org/join?room=YogaWithAnna

I’ve lived in the desert for 8 years and am amazed by the amount of life. It’s the opposite of the dry, stark wasteland that I pictured while growing up in a forest I fell in love with the plants here. Recently I’ve been busy honing my skincare recipes to include the magic of creosote bush If you prefer to keep synthetic chemicals out of your skin care and interested in the medicine of desert plants, come check out @Rising River Botanicals Stock your bathroom using #bitcoin 🤍 #herbalism #homestead #offgrid #desert #plantmedicine

Rewriting the self: the path of the Sadhak to sovereignty Do you ever wonder how many aspects of ourselves are changeable? Is there stability in our bodies, our consciousness, or the pattern of our DNA? Or is existence in this being transient in every way? We all have a story about ourselves - one shaped from genetics, history, and environment. This sometimes looks like a burden we carry in this lifetime. An explanation for why I am the way I am. Otherwise, it may look like a roadmap for self-improvement. The story shifts and I recognize the possibility for change within this lifetime. The shift to a new story and the joy it brings is the fruit of our hard work. We are made up of what we consume, beyond what we eat. Every sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste that we take in is a line in the unfolding of our story. The senses give us fuel for the mind to wander into past and future protections and introduce impurities into the body. The mind governs our choices, based on its projections and misguided thoughts, and it pushes us to fall into patterns - our mind will ask the body to keep seeking out familiar foods, sounds, and sensations until we find ourselves in a place that feels like it can’t be changed. Yet we are always evolving and shifting. Even our bones, hard and brittle, are remineralizing and restructuring, shifting over the course of months. The study of epigenetics offers some insight into a knowing I’ve held onto, that even our DNA is rewritable. Recently, epigeneticists have demonstrated that gene expression cycles over the course of a day. This helps to explain why the genetic code of a population may shift rapidly under stress and why over a lifetime an identical twin may show a different genome pattern than their sibling. This is ultimate freedom and also ultimate responsibility. Our food, environment, company, and entertainment are choices that affect our future happiness, the flow of our evolution, and the story we pass down to our children. While we are clearly moved by the waves of a greater existence, we are the captain of the ship. Practice helps to harness this freedom. In the start of Sadhana Pada, the second chapter of the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali gives the guide to a practical yoga practice: self-purification, self-observation, and evolving self-awareness. Yoga Sutra 2.1: Tapaḥsvādhyāyeśvarapraṇidhānāni kriyāyogaḥ Tapas produces energy, burns away imperfections, and illuminates false knowledge. The fire frees a person from samskaras and the desire to continue the cycle of death and rebirth. This is showing up to the practice, cleansing the body, and concentrating the mind. A commitment we can make to ourselves to keep clearing out what we don’t need. Swadhyaya is self-study, perceiving the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of self from different perspectives. The stories we tell about ourselves define both our past and our future. Patanjali also tells us that it is our choice to accept future suffering: we stand to reap all the benefits of looking at ourselves and modifying how we prepare for the next season of life. Ishwara Pranidhana is acknowledging an inner awareness. It is recognition of the divine within. To me, this is the key to help the rest of the practice flow more easily. Seeing ourselves as an expression of the divine sheds the layers of negativity, shows us our true path, and establishes our place in the infinite. It brings out kindness and releases the fears that control our instincts. These three practices show a pathway to a self-sovereign future. A way to shed the skin that binds us to an old story. It does not require special powers or a birthright, only discipline, sustained efforts, and the choice to evaluate the path you are walking. Make yourself the hero of your story.

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A copper alembic still is chosen for distilling hydrosols because the copper binds sulfates during the process, creating a sweeter smelling products. I enjoy the beauty of working with this metal and a handcrafted still. I feel it also imparts the invigorating and healing qualities of copper. Distilling plants to form a hydrosol captures the essence of the plant into a form we readily soak up through our skin - aromatic and medicinal. #hydrosol #herbs #herbalism #homestead #desert #plants

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gm nostr ☀️🫶 Tonight is our weekly #yogastr class! Join us on @HiveTalk for a Hatha Yoga class to stretch and relax the whole body Mondays at 5-6 pm PT / 8-9 pm ET Always donation based #v4v and suitable for all levels of experience ⚡️ See you there! #yoga #wellness #spirituality #grownostr #yogawithanna https://hivetalk.org/join?room=YogaWithAnna

Creosote is an incredible healer - resilient and fiercely protective - even if these scrubby bushes don’t look like much. Traditionally, it has been used internally and externally to fight many ailments. To heal cuts, fight infections, and even stop the spread of cancer. Science has shown that creosote leaves contain a powerful antioxidant called NDGA (nordihydroguaiaretic acid ), which is now being used in anti-aging studies and skincare. Livestock fed on creosote show decreased rates of infections and parasites. This plant requires strong defenses to spread so abundantly through the dry, harsh desert and there lies its medicine. It is a potent healer all of the damage the body takes. #creosote #sonorandesert #herbalism #herbs #desertpower

When I came back to the desert after most of the summer away, the wildflowers were blooming and framing the paths around my home. I returned to completing projects and during this most recent new Moon finalized a few formulations I have been working on. Creosote has been finding its way into my skin care and connecting me to the healing power of the Sun. Soon I will be offering a salve, skin tonic and face oil featuring this magical plant. I’m also adorning creosote bundles with wildflowers to send off some of the desert beauty ☀️🧡

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Tonight is the night for the weekly #yogastr class! Join this beautiful group of people to calm the mind and align the body in a Hatha Yoga class 🪷 Mondays on @HiveTalk 5-6 pm PT / 8-9 pm ET #v4v All levels of experience and fitness welcome. Just bring yourself and a mat! https://hivetalk.org/join?room=YogaWithAnna #yoga #wellness #spirituality #health #grownostr #yogawithanna

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Our weekly yoga class is tonight on @HiveTalk ☀️✨ Mondays at 5-6 pm PT / 8-9 pm ET Join tonight for a relaxing Hatha Yoga class focusing on shoulders and upper back. It will be great for anyone that works in office chairs, drives a lot, or who simply holds tension in the neck 🩵 #yogastr #v4v #grownostr #yoga #health #wellness #yogawithanna https://hivetalk.org/join?room=YogaWithAnna