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Είναι μία από τις καλύτερες Yoga Artist στην Μεγάλη Βρετανία, και συγκεκριμένα στο Λονδίνο. Η Dee Moi κάνει μία από τις πιο δύσκολες μορφές του στυλ με σκοπό να δυναμώσει το σώμα εσωτερικά αλλά και εξωτερικά.

Η empowering yoga όπως είναι γνωστή, είναι μία μοντέρνα μορφή της Hatha Yoga, με στόχο τον έλεγχο της σωστής αναπνοής και οι πόζες που θα δυναμώσουν αναλόγως το σώμα σου.

DIVE……On this little fabulous square and with the rising popularity of Yoga, Spirituality seems to be perfectly packaged, marketed and sold under a plethora of clichés and trite messages on how to live with purpose and seek gratitude in all things. . It annoys the fuck out of me, this nuance that a path sprinkled with gratitude and meaning is a path leading to the emerald city of happiness… Why do we leave out the harsh fact that gratitude is laced with sadness, a meaningful life is riddled with meaningless moments, kindness is a double edge sword and seeing light in everything is as unrealistic as asking a blind man to see…and…sometimes, living with awareness makes you wish you could take it all back and walk along the blissfully ignorant… . Let’s get real. Meaninglessness cannot be avoided. We cannot use spirituality to neatly package our life into something that looks worthy and elevate ourselves to the ranks of those who «know»… We know nothing. Life is beautifully complicated, dark and hard…and today is a great great day to dive into our inherently flawed humanity… #bereal

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SAMSKARA…. . I have come a long way from my broken relationships and I bring the past with me, Its shards pricking me at times when I least expect it, pressing me to remember, urging me to feel. And I do feel it all, all over again, as if it had just happened. It would be a relief to erase the past but what good would that do except to render me into an emotional cripple, debilitated by the fear of feeling, always running away from triggers that might drudge up a memory. Hunted and haunted by my own past. . No! The past happened and it is part of me. It is me… To erase it would be to give it power, and what you give power to has power over you… The truth is that «the past is never where we think we left it» and life isn’t about starting over. Life is about breaking the ingrained patterns we have been repeating, breaking through the unawareness of our perpetuating formula and changing our unwillingness to change. That’s how we break free from the past and move forward into a true, authentic and unincumbered future… . #samskara #yogaeverydamnday #beyou #betrue

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WHEN… When life doesn’t go according to plan. When I’m anxious and filled with a stifling feeling of discord with life and dissonance with myself. When I am afraid of the uncertainty. When I stumble into more dark corners than I had bargained for. When I walk the daily discomfort of loss of control. When love is challenged and it challenges me. When life knocks me down and knocks me off kilter. When all this is going on, I have learned that to deny the truth of my reality adds suffering to an already painful path, but to recognise the darkness of my truth as it is in this very moment empowers me to brave the storm and break my overwhelming reality into manageable pieces. If, like me, you’re going through one of life’s storms and you feel as if the hurricane will never end, breathe in courage and exhale fear. «Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.”.. #bebrave #beyou #betrue #itsoknottobeok

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Come to your practise to feel, not to compete… Begin every day from where you are, not from where you think you should be… #yogaeverydamnday #questforthepress #thisishard

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COMPARE YOURSELF IN 5 STEPS . Intuitively, I used to preach the virtues of never comparing myself to others and focusing on my own uniqueness instead… I’m starting to realise what a load of bullshit that is. How can I live and work amongst my peers without observing their lives and juxtaposing their good and their bad alongside my own!? I’m not the Dalai Lama and I am eons away from enlightenment, so it stands to reason to stop resisting the concept of comparison and to reframe it in a healthier way… Here are my 5 reminders, each time I feel envy creeping up on me! . 1) Instead of comparing the worse about myself with the best I assume about others, I now seek to compare the best about myself to the best I see in others. The worse about myself is not open for comparison, it’s only open for improvement. . 2) By enjoying and celebrating who I am I can start to find peace in enjoying and celebrating who everybody else is. «To each his own» becomes a mantra rooted in inner peace. . 3) I seek to become the best ‘me’ I can be, calibrating my moral compass through every choice that I make. I aim to live with integrity and in line with the truth I project I to the world. No bullshit. Who I am is who the world sees. I have no shame and no guilt, I only have room for love…So when my focus drifts outside of myself, I fall back on the path that I walk everyday and it lift me back up. . 4) I seek to live my own life fully, accepting the mediocrity of my own dreams and the banality of the shit that makes me happy, instead of wasting my time seeking to live someone else’s big dream and big ideas of happiness. . 5) I am aware of any comparison that promotes within me a feeling of inferiority and through this awareness I let envy and jealousy go in favour of reminding myself (ALL THE TIME) of the breakthrough points in my own path. I’ve come a long way, I’m a more truthful and more compassionate person than I’ve ever been before, and there is nothing inferior about that. . My we remind ourselves everyday that our journey is our own and life is not a competition…#beyou #betrue #bekind #belove #bekindtoyourself

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OWN THAT SHIT… I have a predisposition to stick myself in a perpetuating cycle of self-doubt and playing small… I yearn for balance but I’m quite an extreme person, often oscillating between motivation and procrastination, extraordinariness and mediocrity, happiness and sadness… Real life is full of unsteadiness yet I am often shit scared of falling. I tell a story of strength and empowerment but I often avoid discomfort and block fear. When my not-so-together life is questioned by people who seem to find it impossible for someone «so strong» to not act on the shit that scares me, I tend to justify myself with a diatribe of spiritual talk about self growth… . Why am I so hard on myself? I want to tell the world, and mostly myself, that sometimes I make bad choices and know full well that I’m making them. I own my life, that’s for sure! and I move through the joyful and the painful and honour who I am in this very moment. Balance is to be straight with ourselves, to be empowered by those things that scare us, to be at ease in the most difficult of circumstances, to be true no matter how fucked up the truth is!… #beyou #betrue #bereal

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WHAT DO I EAT!?… You have all been asking me what my diet is. Now that IG added the «story» feature, I started sharing what I eat with you every day. I post one daily home-cooked recipe on my «story», It’s usually either a lunch or a breakfast recipe, complete with the ingredients and the calories per serving. There are also vegan protein shakes and smoothie recipes, plus naughty treats we all deserve to have… . Follow my stories here in IG for daily food tips, exercise drills, yoga sequences, and pointless videos of me and my friends being complete idiots… . If there is something you want me to share with you (food, exercise, beauty tips, body parts 😋…) let me know and I will add it on…#healthyeating #everythinginmoderation

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Good morning world!…Today is a great day to believe…#believe

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LIVE AND LET GO… We spend far too much time holding back for fear of humiliation, shame and failure. . We let our ego dictate far too many moments in our life. Our ego is a master manipulator, it moves the goal post each time we reach a goal. Let us not succumb to its desire to control us. Let us not allow it to move us away from our soul’s intentions. . Let us get emotionally honest and tune into the feelings we don’t dare feel and the dreams we don’t dare have. . Let us travel on, perfectly imperfect as we are, unafraid to fuck up and willing to forgive ourselves. Let us not trouble ourselves with the pursuit of love or the impossible task of letting go. Let us live. Life will teach us how to love and let go… . #beyou #betrue #belove #believe #theshitthathappenswhenyouletgo

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I’m in Lebanon teaching this summer, come join me on the mat at one of these beautiful spaces… Here’s my (belated) schedule… . 18, 20, 25, 27 July…Intermediate course workshops @Trainstation – 6:30 to 8pm. . 10 august…Inversion and arm balance workshop @terrebrunehotel – 11am to 1pm . 29 July. 6, 12 August…vinyasa flow (open level) @terrebrune hotel – 11am to 1pm . 18, 25 July. 1, 3, 8, 10 August…Vinyasa flow (open level) @MamaUrth – 8:45 to 10:15 am . July 28…Inversion and arm balance workshop @Mamaurth – 9 to 11 am 23 July…Inversion and arm balance Worksop @unionsquareyoga August 11th…@ 6:30 Vinyasa flow (open level) August 6th… @6:00 Sun & Moon badass flow taught with Danielle Abi Saab at sunset on the rooftop of Station. 26, 28 July…Vinyasa flow (open level) @sarvamyoga – 6:00- 7h30.

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ES1 = SPEAK UP…ES2 = SHUT UP… There are two kinds of EMOTIONAL SAFETY. One is to feel accepted and to express ourselves honestly and without fear. The second is about protecting ourselves from rejection and the painful emotions that come from the fear of speaking up. ES1 is an affirmation of our self worth, it is a direct path to love and self-love. It brightens our light so that we may shine our truth honestly and lead the way for others to do the same. ES2 is a shrinking of our self worth and trading our personal truth for one which is not our own. It is a direct path to loosing faith in ourself, loosing the love we have for others and dimming our light so that we barely glow in the darkness that progressively engulfs us. I’m on a quest for ES1. I’m not there yet but I’m getting closer. I am dedicating all my actions to bridging the gap between my emotional safety and my emotional integrity. Emotional integrity is when I know my self worth and I know what I deserve. When I love myself and do not seek the validation of others. When I have clear emotions (positive and negative) and am able to identify them, honour them, and express them… My Emotional integrity can only thrive in a safe space where I am heard and my feelings are honoured without the looming presence of criticism and justifications… My Emotional safety is knowing that the sharp put downs of others are their own hang ups and their sharp accusations are their truth and should by no means cause a wave of unworthiness within myself. Emotional safety is knowing when to stand back and let someone else’s truth wash over me. I know my truth. I know my worth. I know myself (including the dark, flawed and confused parts of me). I will not hide in the shadow of someone else’s truth and I will not mute my voice for fear of getting hurt. Great love can only exist in a world with no fear. The quality of life is so much more beautiful when we speak the truth of our emotional integrity and by doing so, learn to harness a space for our own emotional safety…#speakup

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KNOWING IS NOT ENOUGH… If I acknowledge my issues and honour them, my awareness of that which is broken liberates me from the overwhelming weight of the things left unsaid. If I accept the god-awful task of looking down the barrel of the worst part of me and come face-to-face with the truth about all the things I have done badly, the fog of lies will disperse and I will find the courage to make amends. If I can find a compassionate way to act in line with my truth, I would break away from the suffocating space I occupy with my own inner bullshit. Still! None of that «knowing» is enough… My truth asks of me to walk down a path I am not prepared to follow, so I stay away from its course and placate myself with the «I have no choice» bullshit…but in truth, no matter what our truth may be, we always have a choice. We just don’t always have the balls to make it. It takes balls to be true. It hurts. It sucks and it asks of me to do so much more than just knowing. It asks of me to do. 2016, I’m done with the knowing, I’m now ready to start doing…#beyou #betrue #do

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Lick your hand Lick his hand Can you taste that? Smell the air Smell her hair Hear that sound? Touch his neck Sense your breath Sense his breath See where you are right now? Get out… Get out of the pool of your emotions, your thoughts, your feelings and place your feet into your reality, in the room where you are right now. See the people who love you. Touch those who share your life. They are real and they are here, with you, aren’t they?! What are you afraid of? Are you relying on your insecurities, your past experiences, your fear of abandonment, your reluctance to feel more pain? Are you relying on what’s inside your head instead or what’s in front of you? Notice! What’s in front of you? We are the only specifies who can notice ourselves noticing… Notice…#notice . SEATED TWIST variation for day 30 of #GetYourOmBack… @fitqueenirene @robinmartinyoga @yogaone1 @sweatybetty, I see you and you’re beautiful :)… #playwithdee #deefightsback

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WHO CARES… I used to walk into any space and wonder if people liked me, now I walk into any space and wonder if I like them!… The most important work you can achieve in your limited time here is to know that no one is worthy of your love and affection more than yourself. And the miracle that follows from this unconditional self-love is love towards humanity at large, for it is in the heart of self-acceptance that we accept the flaws of others without finding the need to judge them or change them… Be who you are. Love what you are. …and the world will suddenly make a whole lot of sense… . PARIVRTTA UTKATASANA – day 14 of the #GetYourOmBack @sweatybetty July challenge… Follow @fitqueenirene @robinmartinyoga @yogaone1 and me ☺️, tag your pic for a chance to win awesome prizes and a 5 days yoga retreat in France… Ps: Yes! I actually carried my #sweatybetty outfit to a bar and got my friend to take a pic in a public toilets… #theshitwedoforsocialmedia #playwithdee #deefightsback

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Another hotel room. Amsterdam this time. I’m no longer running away, I’m no longer searching for answers, of that I’m certain, I am simply sinking into acceptance instead. It’s surprisingly soothing, this whole #acceptance thing! Do you not find that the idea of something you dread is far worse than it’s reality?…you know what I mean?! It’s a bit like recoiling from the idea of a cold shower only to realise that it’s rather refreshing… When we fight something, we make it stronger. When we wish that things didn’t fall apart, we suffer. When we live in the past chapters of our life, we are stuck. When we accept that reality must flow it’s course whether we like it it not, we accept. When we accept, we move forward. When we move forward, we start to heal, to believe, to see colours again, to realise our worth…To breathe, to live, to be grateful… #accept #letitgo

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As promised, announcing the 2nd Prize out of 4 prizes to be won with the #myasana yoga challenge which started 5 days ago. . Fierce yoga leggings from @lovezuvi – Made from recycled bottles, who would have thought «green» can be «chic» too. Check out their fabulous range on http://www.lovezuvi.com. Thank you @bellaellafulfor your fiercely gorgeous giveaway ☺️. . Remember, this yoga challenge is for all levels. Each pose has 3 or 4 stages: Stage 1 – Beginners. Stage 2 – Intermediate. Stage 3 – Advanced. Stage 4 – Transition (if applicable) . To win one of the 4 prizes, you do NOT need to do all 4 stages. You just need to practise each pose at the level where you are at. It may be one stage, two stages or all stages. What matters is that you practise. Post your pictures with the hashtag #myasana and whatever caption takes your fancy… The 4 winners will be announced at the end if the challenge on Feb 14th (A valentines present from the #yoga fairies 😉)….#yoga #yogachallenge #myasana #playwithdee #practicedaily #spreadtheyogalove

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I woke up this morning and it took less than 5 minutes to know that things aren’t cool. Underpinning my life’s crazy pace was a feeling of self-reproach… Two years ago, I let my successful career as an artist go and took an entirely different path. I turned down incredible opportunities, ventured down self-discovery lane and saw my income fade away into the distance. I thought I was completely at peace with this new direction, until lately, when a feeling of unease had been creeping in. I see now that I had been numbing 2 very important emotions: Embarrassment & Fear of rejection! Despite telling my peers that I am happy to steer my life away from an ambitious career, I forgot to add «…but please don’t reject me because of the decision I made»… And untill this morning, I hadn’t realised that I was afraid of no longer fitting in. I was worried about loss-of-face and that my somewhat drifting lifestyle would no longer make me worthy of acceptance… . Today, I invite ME to #playwithdee and LET MY SHAME BECOME MY WORTH, let me walk down the path I have chosen with my eyes wide open, and carry on walking happily aware of all the things I dropped and all the things I picked up… I realise today, more than ever, that to expose my fears is to expose my vulnerability and be ok with it. I see now that to accept myself means accepting my fear of rejection without trying to talk myself into a sweet alternative. Perhaps the affirmation of self-worth is a bitter sweet experience and never all together sweet! Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the things we already know. Our intellect may acknowledge the self-love-self-worth theory but to make it work we need to understand that there is no quick fix, no solution, no plan of action to fix this feeling of vulnerability. There is only accepting it and embracing it… A sweet and sour cocktail which takes me straight into the essence of love: self-exposure! By shining the light on my vulnerability, I shine the light on the dark recesses of my mind and come face to face with fears that preoccupy me, I shed the weight of shame, I tap into the very essence of self love and I say «I AM WORTHY»…#beyou #betrue

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Exhausted after teaching a 2 hours arm balancing workshop, I took some time before locking up the studio to stretch my quads & open my shoulders with the help of a wall. This got me thinking about fatigue and asking for help in times of need… So Today, I invite you to #playwithdee and FIND A HAND TO HELP YOU REACH YOUR INNER ROCK… … Life is amazing! Without a doubt. And life breathes inspiration into us just as much as it breathes pain and sadness into us… This incredible journey is full of ups and downs, but when I am on a downward slope, mental and spiritual exhaustion takes over and i become desensitised to almost everything. I forget the good times, I forget my inner strength, I forget the gift of life and I become fatigued. Everything i did and didn’t do starts to build up and spill over, drowning me in a sea of what-if(s) and maybe(s). I feel so lost, oscillating between brief intervals of peace and moments of utter denial and confusion. I’ve been there many times before and I have learned a valuable lesson: When life tires me to the bones, I need a hand to pull me up so that I can lean on myself once more. Certain battles aren’t made to be fought alone. Certain scars cannot heal without a plaster. Sometimes we need someone else’s hope to shine the light on ours. It takes great love to reach up and take someone’s hand, and it takes great courage to realise that we are never alone. Today, ask yourself this question: Am I Ok? Do I need help? Do I need someone else’s love to help me find and gather mine? Today, with all my heart, I hope you would find the courage to lean on someone so that you can find your inner rock, once more, in the midst of a turbulent stream. In our ears (literally) RISE OF ULYSSES – by the Japanese Popstars…#yoga #breathe #beyou #betrue #belove #itsgoingtobeok #ticktuckfuk #embrace

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