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Welcome to the space where I share with you my insights & musings on the practice of yoga & it’s philosophy.

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Musings, Philosophy, Yoga Jasmine Newsome-Stone Musings, Philosophy, Yoga Jasmine Newsome-Stone

Just pay attention...

Thoughts are the brain's version of the lungs filling and emptying with breath or the heart pumping. It's just what it does. Read that again. Your thoughts are just the function of the organ of the brain. As Mo Gawdat once said, “We don’t say: I piss therefore I am!” we do not identify with the functions of our bladder, yet we identify with our thoughts.

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Slow down to feel more.

When a teacher said this in class years ago, it was one of those incredible light bulb moments where suddenly a concept I was previously unable to grasp, just made sense. I’m aware it sounds quite unsexy but honestly hand on heart that phrase revolutionised much of my practice and has been a guiding principle for me as a teacher.

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