Spiritual Grit

Happy New Year! How was your year so far? In our 50th episode of Vinyasa in Verse, I shared about having fun, celebrating, being present and enjoying the experience of being a human being, even in the challenging parts, even in the pain and the suffering. // Be open when receiving answers to prayers in ways that you may not expect. Be receptive and listen to your intuition, your inner voice. The heart will give you the answers that you need. // Meditation helps us create awareness around the things that were previously unaware of; it helps us pay attention. // This year is a reminder of being playful in life and not always being serious. For this new year, set a goal, an intention, a resolution to live your best life // Meditation can be a great first step towards healing.// Grab my free resource, 5 Tips on Meditation, to get your new year and your new healing started on a high note! Email: leslieann@suryagian.com // Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice. And follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi Today’s poems/ Books mentioned: “There is nothing in this well, but wind.” by Hafez "Laughter came from every brick" by Saint Teresa of Avila Mentioned Links: Find Allegra West for your Human Design magic on IG: @allergra.west #creativewriting #chooseInnerKnowing #InnerKnowing #healing #healingblueprint #blueprint #healingjourney #meditation #suryagian #writing #yoga #trauma #light #love #feel #past #experiences #joy #offering #kindness #beauty #failure #inspiration #selfcare #loveyourself #humanbeings #livelife #powerfulwords #wordsofaffirmation #security #acceptance #thankful #grateful #blessed #meditation #newyear #newyearresolution #newbeginning #newchapter #2021 #hello2021 #bye2020 #startinganewleaf #startanewchapter #blankpage #starttheyearright

In this special “Best of” series of Vinyasa in Verse, I’m highlighting some episodes that recap a crazy year full of shifts and growth. In this one, I talk about how we explore finding joy in healing.// Most people think that healing is difficult because subconsciously, we feel comfortable with the pain and suffering of trauma. We tolerate it because it’s familiar.// Hug your trauma. Embrace it. Accept it. Acknowledge it. It will then transmute all those wounds of hurt and trauma into something that will help you flourish.// Thinking of starting a meditation practice for the new year? Grab my free resource, 5 Tips on Meditation, to get you started on a high note! Email: leslieann@suryagian.com // Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice. And follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi Today’s poems/ Books mentioned: “That tree we planted” by Hafiz "Maganda begins" by Eileen Tabios #creativewriting #chooseInnerKnowing #InnerKnowing #healing #healingblueprint #blueprint #healingjourney #meditation #suryagian #writing #yoga #trauma #light #love #feel #past #experiences #joy #offering #kindness #beauty #failure #inspiration #selfcare #loveyourself #humanbeings #livelife #guesthouse #powerfulwords #wordsofaffirmation #security #acceptance #thankful #grateful #blessed #meditation

In this special “Best of” series of Vinyasa in Verse, I’m highlighting some episodes that recap a crazy year full of shifts and growth. In this one, I talk with one of my mentors who has made a big impact on me and helped shape my spiritual journey: Mahan Rishi Singh Khalsa. He’s one of the first people to call me by my spiritual name, Surya Gian, which, when I hear it, makes me feel like my true essence, my Sat Nam. Here, he shared about our spiritual journey being a subtly formless, yet solid experience in which we can grow and evolve. // We are born with an incredible facet within our being -  to have a sense of curiosity, exploration, a constant experience of experimentation, a constant sense of discovery, and imagination. // There's nothing wrong with having a beautiful material quality in one's life. But when one’s energy is consumed by that, and one's attention and sense of self worth is built on material well being or material aspects, we get really sidetracked. Awareness and consciousness are the foundation for making healthy choices. // There's still a lot to be grateful for - not to focus on what we don't have, but to focus on what we do have. // Take a listen to savor the goodness he offers to help us birth a new vision for ourselves and our lives. // Find Mahan Rishi here: Khalsa Healing Arts, Yardley, PA https://khalsahealing.com // Thinking of starting a meditation practice for the new year? Grab my free resource, 5 Tips on Meditation, to get you started on a high note! Email: leslieann@suryagian.com // Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice. And follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi Today’s poems/ Books mentioned: “Turn left a thousand feet from here” by Hafiz “Keeping Quiet” by Pablo Neruda

In this episode, we will take a look at the experiences we went through that gave us some valuable lessons. Life is unpredictable and each day is not promised, something that most people are really being made aware of now in these pandemic times. // Lessons are all around. Sometimes we learn them right away, other times we don't. But all are made to help us grow. // We all have this divine light within us. // People come and go but they come into our lives bearing the gift of life lessons. // You have the power to choose how to respond to things that are not within your control. The only thing you have in control of is your response to things, your mindset. // Accepting the things we cannot control and learning from them is really powerful. Remember to be grateful for whatever or whoever comes because each has sent as a guide from beyond. // When you're thinking about your humanness as a guest house, to allow for the experiences to flow through you, learn whatever lessons you need to learn, and then continue on where you left off. Continue forward in your journey and experience the growth as uncomfortable as it may seem. // Thinking of starting a meditation practice for the new year? Grab my free resource, 5 Tips on Meditation, to get you started on a high note! Email: leslieann@suryagian.com // Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice. And follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi Today’s poems/ Books mentioned: “The Guest House” by Rumi “Owl at Home” by Arnold Lobel “She Responded” by Hafiz

Inner work starts with thinking about how pain and sorrow is an opportunity for us to break down our barriers or any other walls. Allow yourself to feel the pain and sorrow. // What if the wound is the place where the light shines forth from you? There is a light within that connects all of us. // We are able to heal ourselves from the inside out. // The work we do on ourselves affects those around us. Everyone can see your light radiating out and they will be inspired. // Humans are communal beings. We are a species that thrives on supporting each other and helping each other. // When you do the work of healing, observe the pain and sorrow, notice it, feel its presence, let go, and acknowledge the lessons learned. // Thinking of starting a meditation practice for the new year? Grab my free resource, 5 Tips on Meditation, to get you started on a high note! Email: leslieann@suryagian.com // Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice. Follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi. Also, subscribe to my Youtube Channel: Team Surya. Today’s poems: “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”  by Rumi “Spiced Manna” by Hafiz Books/ Verses Mentioned: Matthew 6:25-30 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

How would you live your life? What would you do differently if you knew that you couldn’t fail? If you knew that every decision was the right one? In this episode, I talk about how trusting yourself and your inner knowing to take the big leap really does work out. // The universe doesn't work according to your plans. The universe works according to what is best to serve your highest good. // We are conditioned to want to have control and this leads to a lack of self-trust. // Whatever we focus on multiplies - when the negativity comes up, the momentum builds in that direction. When the positivity comes up, then the momentum goes that way. // We have power over our ways of seeing things. // Happiness is fleeting, but joy is eternal.// Bad is just a label for the unfavorable experience. // Thinking of starting a meditation practice for the new year? Grab my free resource, 5 Tips on Meditation, to get you started on a high note! Email: leslieann@suryagian.com // Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice. And follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi Today’s poems: “It’s rigged — everything, in your favor. So there is nothing to worry about” by Rumi “Where Great Lions Love to Piss” by Hafez

How do we treat our physical body? In this episode, we will talk about how we give treatment to our bodies and how we navigate it as human beings. //Self-care is taking care of our soul - our innermost selves. It's the idea of honoring who you are and what activities best nourish and nurture you. // Choose to thrive rather than exist. We have the power to choose. // Remember that sometimes, in our seeking, the answers we get aren't the answers we expect. But when you choose to see this as part of the inner work, you will be inspired and thrive.// Let's take care of ourselves. Let's be friends with ourselves, let's embrace who we are. // Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice. And follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi Today’s poems:  “His Ballet Company” by Hafiz “Kerosene Litany” by Mahogany Brown

Today, I’m changing it up a little bit by pulling a tarot card to kick things off! In this episode, I cover a range of topics --from finding beauty to seeking our life’s purpose to meditation’s magic. // What we are seeking is ourselves - seeking our purpose, seeking who we really are. // There's no such thing as failure. Failure is the only disappointment in our expectations not being met. What failure is actually information we can use to take the next step in inspired action. // As we gather information, we can peel away the layers that cover up our inner knowing. And meditation can help with that. // Registration for our FREE 40-Day Meditation course, Amp Up Your Joy, is now OPEN! For other details and to register, click here. Our Live Q&A will be on Friday, Nov 20 at 12 pm ET on Instagram head on to this link.// Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice. And follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi Today’s poems: “Needing a mirror” by Hafiz “Ode to a Bar of Soap” by Pablo Neruda Keywords: Creative writing, ChooseInnerKnowing, InnerKnowing, healing, healing blueprint, blueprint, healing journey, meditation, surya gian, writing, yoga, trauma, light, love, feel, past experiences, joy, offering, kindness, beauty, failure, inspiration, wild horse, tarot card, 7th card

Healing is a journey. It doesn’t happen overnight -- it’s a continuous evolution. This is only a starting point // If we can build resilience around trauma in ways that help us stop being overwhelmed by past experiences, we can find joy in healing. // We need to recognize the patterns in our behaviors to create awareness and space, which will support our whole healing journey. // Be kind to yourself as you work towards wholeness and towards gathering the pieces of yourself. // Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal (from in-depth courses to 40-day meditation classes), and invitations to practice. And follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi Today's poems: “The prettiest mule” by Hafez "The Last Time Marvin Gaye Was Heard in the Sudan" by Safia Elhillo from the book The January Children

In this episode, we begin our second part of the three part series on finding joy in healing// Healing is NOT all about crying.// We are specific individuals who have specific and unique experiences and so trauma and healing is different for everybody.// One healing approach is to create awareness around patterns and behaviors that might trigger trauma.// With awareness, you can find the root of the problem. // Crying is a natural release of bad energy, feelings, and toxins but when repressed, it becomes anger - an explosion of pressure from the inside which has been kept over time. // Hold yourself with such care and kindness to mend the broken parts and let healing take over. It's important for us to think about trauma as a part of us, rather than something to be expelled from us. // Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice.Today's poems: “It is Unanimous” by Hafez"The Trees" by Jericho Brown (The Tradition, book)