CHOICE

I have the honour of meeting the most beautiful souls everyday through Yoga. I am constantly inspired by the unique expressions of life that come to their mat at both Ourano Yoga and My Health Yoga. I always leave a class wether I am teaching or a student learning something new about myself and life.

The other day I was talking to a student after class about making choices in life. This conversation reflected the meditation I had read just moments earlier and has inspired me to write today's entry.

We come to understand as we get older and presented with different situations, paths and opportunities in life that we have lots of choice. Spoilt for choice actually...

We don't tend to realise that even though choice sounds so simple it causes many people stress, pain, illness and constant worry due to us not understanding the true essence behind the word.

We have a choice in whatever we do, think and say. In life, as humans we are very fortunate to have this luxury and ability.

Only you can choose wether you want to be happy or sad and it is only though the choices you make that you can make a heaven or a hell out of any situation. You can blame no one else for your own happiness or despair.

The circumstances that arise in our lives we have not always consciously chosen and therefore cannot easily be changed. What we can change is the way we choose to react to these circumstances and situations. What we learn to do is choose gratitude and happiness.

I know it is easy to say and incredibly hard to do. I personally have been through the most testing, challenging and traumatic months of my life in the late and I am constantly bringing my awareness to the choices I make in every moment. I continue to choose peace, happiness and love. I found that with the ability to have gratitude for the moments, memories and experiences you  have, it is simple to choose happiness.

Choosing to be happy and peaceful is something that you constantly need to affirm and practice but with time it no longer becomes a choice but a state of being.

Remember that through choice you are in control of your own destiny. Choose to be present in this moment. Live with love, joy and peace.

feel deeply, enjoy simply and think freely

With love,
Ourania

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

To dear divine souls,

I found a beautiful reflective question to ponder on while I was exploring the internet. What would you do if you knew you could not fail? It was in fact a question I had never asked myself before and brought to me personally many interesting visualizations to the surface. I was in a realm of unlimited possibilities and where failing really wasn't an option.

Ask yourself this same question and write down what comes to your surface in large uninhibited writing. Post it in a place you look regularly and allow your dreams to inspire you everyday!

We make our own limitations through self doubt, fear and conformity. You have the ability and the power to manifest what you desire and dream in your life - You just need to believe it...

Feel deeply, Enjoy simply and Think freely

Ourania

Namaste

Hello,

My name is Ourania and I am the founder and principle teacher of Ourano Yoga. I have decided to start a blog to allow me the opportunity to share my thoughts, inspirations and experiences with you. I will be taking some time each week to ride my bicycle to a place of nature that is special to me and rest my back against a tree as I write this.

The tree and I are breathing as one, the sun shining it’s divine rays upon me and the grass at my feet. All is well. All is one. I find incredible amounts of inspiration by being outside in open spaces and marvelling at the beauty before me. I have such a feeling of unity with nature and believe this is one of the reasons I started on my yoga journey.

I was always asking questions as a child and still till this day about the makings of this world. Who are we? And what exactly is life? And why do we have it? Questions that my beautiful mother answered leaving me more interested than I was before. She would always answer in a way that suggested perhaps I explore and find out the answers to these questions for myself. So here I am now, taller, wiser and still exploring!

Three things I have learnt along the way so far – No.1 that I have everything I need here is this present moment to be all that I may be. No.2 That we are all one and No.3 the answers you seek to life’s questions are within you. We don’t need to do anything but simply be.

I will go into further details of my findings and explorations in future entries. I am so excited about today and the new possibilities it holds, the new people I may meet and the new knowledge I may learn. I am thankful for this day. Until next time divine souls,

Feel deeply, Enjoy simply and Think freely.

Ourania x