Danielle breaks down spirituality and what it means both mentally and physically for her. She discusses awareness, feeling emotions, and helps us recognize what we're feeling when assessing spirituality.
Danielle Jokonen is a shaman and the creator of Yad yoga. She talks about how to connect with your spirit. Getting present to your body gets you access to your mind and heart. It's about also connecting with nature. Have a blessed rest of your day.
Hello, my name is Danielle Jokonen, and I am a yoga teacher. I am a shaman, and I am the creator of Yad yoga. And yad stands for your own determination to take practice up or also to dial it down, to move with intensity or to sit with a still mind in meditation. And here today, I am going to talk about spirituality and what that means to me and maybe a little insight on what it can mean for you. Spirit is thinking about something bigger than yourself, being able to step into your soul. And to me, spirituality really does mean that to be able to think something is at play bigger than my body, in this life, in my mind, and it resides in my heart.
It's a connection that I'm so passionate about is first get connected to your spirit. And sometimes it takes like a journey to get there. And a lot of times it's like, how do I get in tune with my spirit, my soul? And at first it can start with the journey into your body. So really getting physically present with your body and becoming aware and present of your thoughts, things that you say, things that you don't say. And then being able to drop into your heart and in your heart is your soul and is your spirit.
And in that space is a lot of faith, is a lot of trust, is a lot of guidance and really just truth, like true inner knowing of what is best for you on a soul level that is actually right for you on your path and to help you connect to your guides, to your other angels, to help you along your path, to allow you to become your best version of yourself. And it's about also connecting with nature. So we call that getting right with nature, because nature always is doing the right thing for itself. Even in times of destruction or even winter months where you think everything is cold and the leaves are gone and the grass is gone as part of our seasons, it's part of life, right?
It's a part of nature, is to accept all seasons and to be in the space of trust and faith that everything will always work out for our highest good. So connecting with your spirit is to be able to get into your body, be aware of your thoughts, drop down from your mind, thinking into your heart space, to feel, to really feel all of our emotions, the range of the emotions, the pain, the grief, the sadness, the joy, love, bliss, being able to really feel all the emotions on that spectrum. Because it's not bad to be sad, but if you're robbing yourself from feeling the pain or the sadness, you're equally robbing yourself and feeling the full spaces of joy, bliss and happiness.
And a lot of times we don't know how to step into that space. Like, how do I feel? How and what am I feeling? So sometimes to even get there, that's why I talk about getting present into your body. And getting present to your body gets you access to your mind, mind gets you access to your heart, and your heart gets you access to your soul and your spirit. Where there is a lot of trust and faith and like surrendering and really believing in something bigger than yourself is that play in your life for you.
And sometimes what you think to be true may not be true for you. And being in that practice, a consistent practice of knowing when you know and standing strong in that and also being open. Oh, maybe, I don't know, maybe there's another shift in vision here. Maybe there's a bigger possibility for me here that I don't even see right now that my spirit is actually trying to line me up with right now. So trust, faith, surrender. Tap into your body, get present to your thoughts, tap into your heart and in that soul, it's in your heart and your spirit.
It really guides you to live your best life possible. So that's what spirit means to me. And it's in all things, all the time. It's when the wind blows, you can hear it. Guides telling you insights for your next step or next aligned right. Action birds when they're chirping in the morning, the sun rising, the sun setting, really just listening to the stillness and the quiet. And that's when spirit speaks. So tune into your spirit and see what you get access to in the still moments. Getting present to your physical body, being aware of your thoughts, feeling into your heart space.
Just inviting in wisdom, guidance from spirit. Let me know what you get access to. Can't wait to hear from you and continue. Just be open to expanding your spirit. Have a blessed rest of your day.
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