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Jul. 01, 2011

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ABOUT YOGUE Hi, I'm Insiya. Journey with me as we live slow, scatter beauty and tread lightly on the planet.

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The sky has darkened, the mornings feel as dark as

The sky has darkened, the mornings feel as dark as the evenings and it has been pouring rain the last few days. Winter is here and you can feel its insistence.

I’ve been noticing how much the power of ritual can help us manage how we feel right now. And how beautiful it is that when you consider most rituals from around the planet, when it is dark, we focus on bringing in light…

This week, Ananda Lion and I participated in an advent spiral walk, a ritual that we know from his time at a Steiner school in Santa Cruz. It is so special and such a peaceful counterpoint to what can be such a busy time of the year. I wrote about it on my blog. Head over if you are feeling like a good read. Yogue.ça

Other rituals we have been enjoying:
Simple home cooked meals (black bean tacos are a fav)
The ritual of travel: this was A blitz in and out of vancouver to drop off my parents who are now in hot Mumbai!!! The skyline has cccchanged so much!
- A visit to the Lamborghini dealership in vancouver for ananda since he wanted to photograph the cars (does anyone else have a car mad child? He started an ig account called @thatonecarspotter_ 😄)
- home made chai for a community of special women. We had a gift exchange last night and I am feeling so loved! Also, I made a cup of chai this morning from the blend of spices and it was amazing. I think I am on to something!!! 💖

More soon. Happy Tuesday.

#rituals #intentionallife #viclife #mindfulliving #growth #exhale #insiyafinn #yogateacher #breathe #healinsiya #healcancer

Hello friends!!! Felt inspired this morning to sha

Hello friends!!! Felt inspired this morning to share some of my thoughts from the past six weeks. It feels like I am at a turning point now and I really want to share what recovering and moving forward can look like. I hope this offers some inspiration and support to any of you going through a hard time.

Happy December - can you believe it is already here?

With love and the potency of presence.

Insiya :)

Ps. With love to my friend @stephaniesnyderyoga for reminding me of the potency of our ability to “begin again.”

Pss! Also checking that this video runs to the end!!! It’s over the 90 second reel timeline!!! 😀
#namaste #yogalife #yogalessons #cancerrecovery #positivemindset #presence #growth #healinsiya

My internal world has been full of questioning lat

My internal world has been full of questioning lately… the ones that keep coming up are: who am I? What do I want to do - with this re-birth into life? Where am I going? What is my purpose? What do I want to create? The questions that emerge when everything under our feet seems like quicksand, when life has seemed contracting and you finally begin to see new openings and light.

I’m allowing space for those answers to emerge, supporting myself w a mindful art course with @bccancer and a weekly women’s circle. BecUse I need to. The emotional whorl is here and real; and while I know it has been a lot I don’t actually realize it until things come up and I feel all the feels.

The body I am in feels different, it is and it will take time to regain my strength and movement ability. And yet life continues and I feel its press: the pull of many roles I bear as a woman, a mother, a daughter, a wife, a teacher, an entrepreneur… and it can feel like a lot!!!

But then, there is a walk w the sunshine or moonlight on the horizon a meal that celebrates our senses and I remember that I have to stay on my path and begin again…

Photo sprinkles L to R:
1, 2: holiday sparkles w mum and dad
3. The most delicious lunch ever @belovevictoria
4. Turmeric, ginger, coriander and fennel: what I made to help me move through a sticky cold this last week.
5. Making herbal salves w @andreapenagos.wellness and @iye.herstories 💖🌱
6. This branch was so beautiful
7. Lion made a tiramisu (I halved the sugar it was still v sweet)!
8. An appt at BC cancer - I’ll have check ups every 3 months. Each time I see my oncologist I remember how far I have come
9. Today: a walk in the sunshine w my little guy.

Always counting my roses every day. Have not been writing much recently and need to commit to writing everything down about this last 15 months before I forget… still receiving messages from others encountering cancer and so happy that my story can help give inspiration and hope. Thanks for being here.
💖💫🙏🏼

#family #growth #exhale #breathe #yogateacher #healcancer #healinsiya #insiyafinn

The roots of where I come from ie. India have alwa

The roots of where I come from ie. India have always been an integral part of my practice and study of yoga and Ayurveda, even though my family is Muslim - yoga has always been both and integral and secular practice for me - yet connected deeply to Hindu philosophy - as is Ayurveda. Also so much of what I have learned I also owe to committed teachers and lineage in the west. As someone who has experienced this sort of transnational identity - of space, place, race and more - from living and moving and being in so many countries - i cherish and hold the threads that connect me to meaning and illumination. And I am committed to sharing those threads with lightness of heart and depth of experience.

Super honored to announce that I will be sharing Ayurveda and more @sedonayogafestival this March 2024. If you are considering it say yes. It will be a weekend to cherish. @theblissologist will also be there bringing his incredible Blissology yoga teachings.

And a host of amazing teachers.

Hope to see you there. Ticket prices on a super sale until tonight. Head over to @sedonayogafestival for more. 💖🙏🏼💫

#yogafestivals #yogateacher #growth #ayurveda #modernayurveda #healing #health #india

Happy Saturday!!!

It’s cold and I awoke this morning feeling like

It’s cold and I awoke this morning feeling like I was coming down w a flu. But going outside is always my medicine and the sunshine put on its A game tonight…

One thing I am focusing on right now is how to heal myself by tuning into the rhythms of nature / to our circadian rhythms… this is at the heart of Ayurveda. Happily a lovely yogi sent me a book called “the rhythms of wellness” by Alberta teacher Jaki Daniels, which offers a Chinese medicine perspective on bio rhythms. 🙌

Here’s what is helping me these days:
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🌞Getting sunshine when it’s strongest - these days I walk our dog at around 3:30 or 4 pm and soak up whatever light I can.
🥣making lunch my main meal and dinner lighter - this helps our digestive fire to work harder when it can (ie during the afternoon)
Winding down before 10 pm (trying)!!! But I notice how much better I sleep before getting that second wind of energy.

Lots more about this on my blog if you are interested. Look up « Dinacharya » @ yogue.ça and it will honestly transform your days.

Saw my surgeon today which was a reminder again of where I was a year ago and where I am today.

Grateful for a little space of light and sending out as much peace and love as I possibly can. The world needs it. We all do! 💫🙏🏼💖

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