f*ck originality.

For all of us working to hone our craft: keep going. To all of the individuals just getting started and feel pressure to be new or exciting: master the basics. Imitate your inspirations and take that understanding to explore. Maximize your effort with smart technique, repetition and intention. Rinse and repeat. Practice until you’ve memorized your own quirks, nuances and idiosyncrasies enough to develop your approach to modernization. Besides, I can almost promise that if you’ve had a great idea, it’s already been done. The earth is 4.5 billion years old after all.

yoga, musingsBriana RandallFebruary 16, 2020yoga, originality, asana Comments

do you know who you are?

Who are you when you’re not working? When you’re not creating? When you’re not pretty or perfect or pretending? How does your sense of self translate into the other aspects of your life? How does it affect the way you interact with others? The way you carry yourself in the world? The ways in which you practice yoga on the mat, and the ways you apply those greater lessons off the mat and into “real life”? I believe our true selves lie beyond all framework and categories.

yoga, musingsBriana RandallFebruary 9, 2020yoga, manifestion, identityComment

on vulnerability.

Being vulnerable is hard. But being vulnerable is the only way (in my opinion) to allow the heart to feel true pleasure so real it scares me…

Through my fitness journey and the practice of yoga, but more importantly through my meditation practice I have slowly begun to fall in love with myself. I have realized that I'm vulnerable, strong, and powerful.. I've become more assured in myself and my practice, and that's a peace of mind I hope anyone who practices yoga (and everyone in general) experiences.

yoga, musingsBriana RandallSeptember 17, 2017yoga, vulnerability, asanaComment

ego trip.

In his classic work the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali describes yoga as "the progressive quieting of the fluctuations of the mind." He then explains that through dedicated practices and the cultivation of detachment, we will stop identifying with the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that can cause us so much pain -- and we will open to an experience of our true self.

yoga, musingsBriana RandallSeptember 3, 2017yoga, ego, asanaComment

up the east coast.

I did way too much yoga, scuba dived for the first time, took tons of pictures, and made new friends. Which brings us back to now. Gorgeous yoga couple Cilla and Noah own Sukha Yoga in Burlington and we decided to have a mini Aruba reunion.

photography, travel, yogaBriana RandallAugust 13, 2017yoga, photography, travelComment

suicide.

I told myself I wasn't going to write this post. I've tried very hard to avoid this topic, because quite frankly, I'm over it. I'm very sick of thinking/talking/writing about it, but after everything that's happened this week both in my personal life and in the world, I can't avoid it any longer.

musingsBriana RandallJuly 23, 2017yoga, suicideComment