Are You Interested in Yoga?

Written By Leanne de Groot
 

Body Fuel Yoga blends the ancient principles and practices of yoga with mobility and meditation in a way that is both completely authentic and relevant to the lives and needs of modern people.

My practice of yoga helps cultivate internal peace, clarity of mind with a greater sense of self-awareness and consciousness, stronger, more flexible, and supple bodies that are less prone to injury and illness.

Sometimes I feel like the Yoga mat has become a sort of impulsive New Age status symbol. Suggesting that if you practice or attend yoga classes that you are automatically fit, environmentally aware, and enlightened. For my clients, it is about getting curious back and forth in their own bodies and how they can move their bodies in ways that feel freeing, opening, and healing. Oftentimes I will throw in some thought evoking questions to ponder throughout sessions, as I am just a curious person by nature and love to invite people into that same celebration.

My passion for yoga recoils when the word “Yoga” itself is attached or imbued into the diet industry. I’ve attended classes where “yoga” is practiced solely for its calorie-burning effects, over the meditative benefits that can be taken off the yoga mat and into the real world to build resilience, gratitude, and empathy.

If you are curious enough, you can gradually become the best-equipped person to understand the unique mechanics of your body and how to alleviate sore muscles and mental and physical chronic pain.

Please don’t wait till your flexible or have the right clothing that adorns the Yogies on social. If my style of mobility and meditation is right for you, now is precisely the right time ♥︎

 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

https://www.bodyfuel.org
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