Dana Hermocillo

I’m back on Saturday mornings at Yoga Shakti! Join me from 8:00-9:30 A.M. for a level 2 vinyasa flow including arm balances and inversions! Start your weekend feeling centered 🙏🏽and strong💪🏽.

Swipe ➡️ for this weeks schedule and zoom information. 🧘‍♀️Hope to see you on your mat soon!
“The ego is the reflection of the true self on the mind. The two appear to be the same, but one is the original, the other a reflected duplicate. The self will always be falsely represented by the ego until our ignorance is removed.”- Sir Swami Satchidananda

@ Huntington Beach, California

Swipe➡️ to see this weeks yoga offerings. Tomorrow, Tuesday August 11th at 5 P.M. meet me in the Zoom room! 😁This will be an intermediate-advanced level practice with modifications offered and opportunities to take the poses further. This class will be offered every Tuesday at 5 P.M. until further notice. DM or comment below with any questions. It appears this pandemic is sticking around awhile longer so let’s build a consistent home 🏠 practice together. 🙏🏽 🧘‍♀️ @ Huntington Beach, California

Exciting news! 😀Yoga Shakti is now offering live virtual classes through the website. Here is my virtual schedule for this week:

-Monday 4:30-6:00 P.M. Shakti level 2 .
-Wednesday 4:30-6:00 P.M. Shakti level 2
-Thursday 5:00-6:00 P.M. instagram live donation based class.
-Saturday 9:30-11:00 A.M. Shakti level 1-2
For all Yoga Shakti classes register on the website and you will have access to the class for 48 hours! All donations from Thursday’s instagram live will continue to go to buying food and supplies for families at Madison Elementary in Santa Ana. Have a great week everyone! 💕

Hi all 🖐🏽I’ve had some extra time and thought I would share some yoga philosophy.

According to yoga philosophy and my interpretation these are the 5 obstacles/afflictions to reaching enlightenment.

1. Ignorance (avidya)-lack of knowledge/understanding. The confusion that material reality is more important than the spiritual reality. This includes having dependence on what will not last. Wx. You can’t take your car with you when you die.
2. Pride/ego “I” (asmita)- we come into the world with a clean slate, but we are tainted by the world. Pride has us judge others by external factors and comparisons. We are not the ego, our titles, our jobs.
3. Attachment (raga)-emotional attachment to any source of pleasure. We are attached to material things/people/experiences, we feel that we own them. Try to choose gratitude not ownership.
4. Aversion (dvesa) -Repulsion that leads to hate or avoiding what we dislike. We should seek for evil doers to reform their actions. We can encourage this by reforming our own deeds and facing the things that repulse us.
5. Fear of death/clinging to life (abhinivesa)-This is fundamental to our survival and the most difficult to break. When we extend this into areas like the ego it can be destructive. Ex. I want my business to survive/thrive even after my death.
“Meditation is the gateway to ending the five afflictions. Meditation is bringing the complex mind to a state of simplicity and innocence but without ignorance.” -B.K.S Iyengar

If you have your own interpretations I’d love to hear from you! Sending love to everyone out there 💕🙏🏽

Join me tonight 6:00 P.M. on Instagram and Facebook live for an intermediate level virtual vinyasa flow. All donations will go to buying food and supplies for families at Madison Elementary in Santa Ana. Anything helps! Can’t make it at 6? No problem, the class will be in my story for 24 hours. No worries if you aren’t able to donate this time. Venmo: Dana-Hermocillo. I’ve also created a Zelle account, dm for more info.