Real, Alive, Authentic, Wild

If we spent more time moving with the force of life, how much happier would we be? Singing, making love, dancing, walking in the forest, swimming at the beach, picking flowers, watching sunsets, and gazing at the moon.

We owe ourselves to acknowledge that our mind is much smaller than the life force within us. Have you ever thought about what would happen if we let go of expectations and just became free to be? To have a human experience. To feel happy with just loving and living.

With daily yoga and meditation practice, affirmation games, sound bath healing, dance, enjoying nature, and much more, RAAW Yoga will transform you and your life.

This practice is about the balance between strength and flexibility. The combination of both mobility and expansion work in a slow, sensual, playful, heartfelt sanctuary of self-love through a divine feminine slow-flow style. The purpose of Raaw Yoga is to break barriers between the mind and the soul. Allowing you to step off the mat feeling wild, free, happy, loved, and connected to the earth and everyone around you.

Through connecting everyone to their inner sacredness, RAAW Yoga is a gateway for self-empowerment and personal growth to help others thrive in life by nurturing the body, mind, and soul, planting the seed of good intention.

RAAW Yoga represents my philosophy and teaching and the way I see myself showing up to the world on my mat and for my students.

My belief is that if you aren’t showing up to the world being Raaw you will find yourself at war with the world, others, and yourself. Here is what that looks like to me:

Real

Being real means being honest with yourself, acting according to your values, and bringing your full self to every interaction. Being real points toward an ongoing process of uncovering what’s deep within us. It involves a sincere effort to go inside ourselves and uncover what we’re actually experiencing, and then communicate that. Being Real is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see.

Alive

You may be living, but are you really alive?

What does it mean to be alive and do you value it?
Do you want to live with as much aliveness as you can? 

To me being alive in the “real sense” involves being grateful, challenging or testing yourself, developing and growing at every moment, experiencing life to the fullest, living a meaningful life, loving what you have, and thinking you belong here. Yoga is the way I've gotten to truly understand what it means to be alive. By being active, animate, breathing, existing, full of spirit, being aware of my heartbeat, feeling vibrant, etc.

Authentic

When we are being authentic, we are being vulnerable; we are showing all parts of us, the good with the bad. When we do this, we allow for more intimate and honest relationships, and we allow for true acceptance and unconditional love. Being authentic is a daily practice. It is a moment-by-moment choice of embracing your truth and being fearless enough to share it with the world. To be our authentic self, we have to know what that is. Coming from the perspective of Yoga philosophy, which is thousands of years old and a time-tested path to knowing one’s true Self, this journey begins by noting the difference between self (with a small ‘s’) and Self (with a capital ‘S’.)

Wild

This is a space for us to explore with full permission and curiosity. We don’t hold back here the sounds we want to make or the movement that naturally comes to us. We let out who we really are, who we want to be. We create a safe space where we can be free and unfold without judgment. If you find yourself caught up in your head we try to bring that to your body. We feel our thoughts in our bodies.

What are your hips saying?

What does the way you walk show?

How do you hold yourself?