YOGA FOR PEOPLE WHO BREATHE

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Slow Down and Connect with Your Most Authentic Self

You made it!

At World Peace Yoga we are here to remind you to slow down and rest.

Rest is resistance!
Rest allows for a life of rhythm over rush.
Rest disrupts the fast-paced, go-go-go, competitive, and glorification of busy way of life.
Rest pushes back against the worth in productivity and take at the expense of others mentality.
Rest allows for deeper self-worth, creativity, gratitude, and giving for the benefit of all.
Rest connects you with intuition to create balance between your heart and the intellectual mind.
Rest allows for pause and listening.
Rest connects you more deeply to your breath and body.
Rest allows time for you to feel and be with your feelings.
Rest releases stress, depression, and anxiety.
Rest allows for processing and healing.
Rest allows for self-love and compassion.
Rest allows for greater peace within.
Rest allows for liberation.

Everything we do is with the intention for you to connect with and manifest your most authentic self. We believe the practice of yoga is a form of self-love and self-acceptance. World Peace Yoga works to create a brave space that honors ALL bodies to explore and nourish their physical, emotional, and spiritual self. As a developing, fluid, and ever-transforming studio, we teach a spiritual, holistic approach to yoga with classes, programs, and events that encourage each person to leave a legacy of a life well lived, a life of compassion and love.

Seven Aspects of a World Peace Yoga Class Experience

Intention: having sincere intention to connect with your authentic self
Connect to Earth: asana is a posture, seat, or connection to the earth
Conscious Breathing: the regulation of life force energy through breath work (pranayama)
Intuition: connecting with one’s innate intelligence or sixth sense
Compassion: cultivate love for one’s self and all beings
Service: being of service to one’s self so one may be of better service to the world
Meditation: peace of mind

The only requirement for yoga practice is to

BREATHE.

We believe the practices of yoga are for any living breathing body. The only requirement for yoga practice is to breathe. You don’t have to look, dress, or be any way but yourself. This is your practice, your choice, your consent. You are invited to come as you are, allow for pause, and be open to change. The practices of yoga have the ability to move our lives in a positive way, deepening awareness and mindfulness, and it is important that all are welcome and have access. This is what we mean when we say we offer, “yoga for people who breathe.”

Created and operating in Cincinnati on Ludlow Ave. since 2005, we are a modern yoga studio inspired by ancient wisdom and practices. We allow for evolution and growth, not perpetuating systems of violence and exclusion or old paradigms, traditions, ideologies, lineages, and philosophies rooted in oppression. We allow for fluidity, nuance, and being part of emerging conversations to create a kinder culture and more peaceful world.

At World Peace Yoga we believe in liberation and freedom for all. We do not subscribe to the social construct of race or caste where the white body is considered the superior standard of humanity or where society is divided into descending classes, a social order that oppresses others. We believe that all forms of oppression and exploitation are connected and therefore extend compassion to fellow animals–not consuming them for food, clothing, or any other purpose as a practice of non-violence.

This is a practice. We are imperfect humans. We do our best to continue to learn (and perhaps more importantly unlearn), grow, and evolve and it is an ongoing practice.

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