Let’s dance through this life with grace and wild appreciation, for one day it will all cease to be as it is, we will cease to be as we are. But that is the beauty of the human experience, so that our soul can learn and grow.
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Cup of Yogi School: World's Wildest Ride
in Art, Consciousness, Gratitude, Love, Mindfulness, Music, Photography, Spirituality, Yoga
Sometimes the lows feel like trenches and the highs like a grain of sand.
This is a quote that came to me yesterday, and it really hit home in this moment. On this rollercoaster of life, just as I am about to rise, I plunge even deeper into my own shadow. I’m in a space where it’s hard to remind myself that this, too, shall pass as I dance within these moments that truly make me appreciate the light.
Read MoreCup of Yogi School: Summer Solstice Rebirth
This week, we welcome the Summer Solstice. To many this is simply a day we get a lot of sunshine, which is beautiful and healing regardless of whether you choose to believe in anything further. For me, this period of time is energetically charged and rooted in rebirth, change and transformation...the shedding of old skin that carries with it the heavy burden of limited beliefs. Because how can you fly if you’ve got shit weighing you down? And my darling, I promise you were made to soar.
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Cup of Yogi School: Show Me La La Love
Love doesn’t have to look a certain way. I’m going to repeat that: love doesn’t have to look a certain way. When we are born onto the canvas of the universe, we understand that we are all that canvas. We go through life acquiring different splotches of reality, of ourselves. And once we grow older, we forget that we are ultimately still the same blank canvas. The only difference being that we have all these emotions and experiences to color our understanding of the world in this moment. How we interact with love is dependent on the splotches of reality we choose to paint our life story with.
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Behind the Photo: Nature is a balancing dance between movement and stability. The green earth symbolizes foundation, while the blue water is constantly flowing and changing. In this state of unity, Mother Earth is whole.
Cup of Yogi School: To Be or To Do?
As humans, it is in our nature to be on a perpetual scavenger hunt towards happiness through external achievement, whether personal or professional. Our Western world glorifies doing more, working harder, and smiling even when we want to curl up in a ball. There is this societal expectation to always be “on.”
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Behind the Photo: Glasses reflect back the reality we choose to believe while expressing how we want the world to see us. This photo is meant to explore the balancing act of our perspectives, others' perception of us and all of the elements we use to tell our story.
Cup of Yogi School: Balancing the Stereotype
Behold the Yogi stereotype: A supreme being who sits in a cave on the side of a gorgeous mountain in deep meditation surviving on air. Although this is a beautiful way to live, it is not realistic for me, nor for most of our modern-day Western society. Real talk: I listen to loud rock and roll music, enjoy festival season and certainly have a sweet tooth. But here’s the thing, I practice mindfulness every day in one way or another.
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Insanity
You are given a deck of cards
None of them are random,
But if you play with curiosity and surrender,
You wake up to the truth
that we’re all played by the same hand.
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Bonnaroo with a Hefty Side of Post-Grad Life Lessons
Bonnaroo was easy, hard, emotionally and physically challenging, perspective changing, empowering, SWEATY, beautiful, positive, simple, and raw. Bonnaroo was everything that life is. I think we get so swept up in our complicated lives that we fail to acknowledge the only thing that matters; we have way more control than we understand, to lead the lives that we want to and to have the courage to make a change. Bonnaroo encourages wild imagination, showing us the that magic exists in the most simple of moments, but sometimes we are just too distracted to see it.
Read MoreGood Vibes: Flat Land Fam
Fae, Grant, Brandon, Ian, Chris, I appreciate you all so much. Working with you has been the highlight of my college experience. Here are just some of the many unforgettable memories that I'll forever keep: When we group hugged after your set at Okeechobee, when glowing lanterns framed the starry night behind ODESZA, when (I'm sure) we all cried during Robert Plant, when I got to prance barefoot through the grass and play with glitter, when Ian's salad was the last to come out at your Jax show (but like why?), and when you sold out of CD's at your release party.
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Good Vibes: Thank You for the Music Dad
in Good Vibes, Gratitude, Love, Music, Photography
I have a few weeks before I start writing the next chapter of my life, and I hope you know that you gave me the pen to do so. I am confident in saying that I owe much of my accomplishments to you. To all of the risks you've taken to ensure that I've had as many opportunities as I do now. I think my feelings go beyond gratitude at this point, and I don't believe any amount of thank you's would do any justice to the way I really feel.
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