{"id":282131,"date":"2021-05-11T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=282131"},"modified":"2021-05-11T17:37:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:37:56","slug":"crystal-love-bringing-forth-illuminated-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/pt-pt\/journal\/crystal-love-bringing-forth-illuminated-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Love: Bringing Forth Illuminated Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Explore\u00a0Crystal Love<\/a>\u2018s offerings on Wanderlust TV:\u00a0Purifying Barre & Core<\/a>,\u00a0Quick FIIT<\/a>, Core & Soar<\/a> and the new additions to her Posture Lab<\/a>\u00a0series!<\/em><\/p>\n

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What is Posture Lab?<\/b><\/p>\n

I created posture lab as a way to offer more time and space to dive into functional alignment. It’s a series of variations of movement targeted to strengthen your Core & Soar<\/a> workouts and guaranteed to take your weekly live practice to the next level. <\/span><\/p>\n

Each posture lab session will help you break the mental and physical barriers that may come with quicker transitions in a weekly practice, and they might even give you the fitness burst you are looking for\u2014in under 20 minutes! Each posture lab is quick enough to fit into the busiest schedule and can be easily mixed and matched with any practice in my library as warm up or review.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You’re a<\/b> trauma-informed <\/b>750+hr KYIS (Kripalu Yoga in Schools) <\/b>Registered Kripalu Yoga Teacher, but so much more than just that. Your teachings on Wanderlust TV are based on mindful movement. <\/b>What inspired you to create these signature sequences beyond asana?<\/b><\/p>\n

With so many options for improving physical wellbeing, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. People don\u2019t have to adopt a \u201cgo big or go home\u201d type of approach to changes in physical wellbeing.\u00a0 I combine effective strategies with cutting-edge mindset tools, movement and breath-coaching for anyone on the sacred path to improving one\u2019s life\u2014mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Drawing on the roots of humanity, my sequences are designed to support you in holistic and alternative, lifestyle habits that honor the wisdom from Native lineage, and from my teacher; Swami Kripalu. <\/span><\/p>\n

My job when I\u2019m coaching is to show you that we share cross-structural resilience within communities. There are four archetypes that can be fostered and strengthened within each and every body: the warrior, the healer, the visionary, the teacher. My sequences foster my own connection as a survivor, a sense of resilience and sense of hope found among indigenous peoples, my native bloodline. They support change, healing, transition and rites of passage. These are practices that we access within our own inner nature; which is openness and non-attachment, wisdom and objectivity, power, presence, love, gratitude, and acknowledgement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your activism in the #MMIWG2s #nomorestolensisters movement is another way you take your practice beyond the yoga mat. Can you share more about the movement and why it is important for you to share about it with your community?<\/b><\/p>\n

By humanizing this fight, the goal is to create a global connection and support network for Alaskan Native and Native people\u2014advocating for all women\u2014reminding us of the resilience and power of women as a unified, collective.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"CrystalLove-1\"As a social justice movement, it\u2019s about both honoring my lineage and Native traditions, while also dismantling years of oppression, my own experience as an adopted Native child, survivor of human trafficking, rejection, denial, sexualization and fetishization (Pocahontas) from adults as teenager because of how I looked. <\/span><\/p>\n

From a trauma-trained educator\u2019s perspective, I feel it is my responsibility to bridge the gap for trauma care access; to mitigate oppression, defend and protect womxn and children (all ages, all ACEs, all races) and build communities based on humanness. The impacts of invasion, colonization, settlement and forced assimilation continue to have multi-generational impact on everyone.\u00a0 Crossing barriers to address access and care as preventative, holistic, and alternative healing is what is needed across the globe. I don\u2019t think we are in community if we do not cooperate with each-other, across Nations, to mitigate systemic racism, hate and violence. <\/span>My approach helps to create more access and trauma care within the healing industry\u2014especially for trauma survivors living in marginalized and BIPOC communities.<\/p>\n

24% of profits the Loveinmvmt Living LLC. <\/span>Immersion<\/span><\/i> 4.0 Program are donated to one of the following member tribe affiliates or organizations in support of families and Alaska Native and Non-Alaska Native families that include: Menominee Indian Tribe Reservation in Wisconsin, San Bernardino County, CA, Fairbanks, Alaska – H\u00e4n Gwich\u2019in and Oglala Lakota Tribe, New Mexico and British Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve recently overcome a physical injury that impeded your ability to get on the mat. What was it like to overcome that obstacle in a socially-distanced pandemic? Is there something you learned in your rebound from that injury that feels different in this time?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

When we remember who we are, we bring our illuminated authenticity to shine bright. It is the action of bringing oneself forward.<\/p>\n

Life asked me from an early age to choose only parts of my true self in order to survive. Along the way, I have learned that nurturing all parts of my true self brings a greater resilience, more opportunities, and more quality to the relationships I have with myself, others, nature; with life in general.<\/p>\n

Respecting one\u2019s physical body can be a struggle for many. Much of the self-abuse in our physical body develops out of the pain of our emotional self. Overall wellbeing requires that we take care of the vessel we live in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I found that my injury allowed me to cultivate a greater sense of clarity, strength and healing within my home and the experience that I know of myself. Indigenous people believe that when we have come home to who we are, we sit inside our “Sacred Hoop”. My approach to my own personal practice, and when I\u2019m coaching, is about reclaiming personal agency by revitalizing and restoring personal desire and joy from the truest part of my heart. <\/span><\/p>\n

This became a daily practice for me to foster love and the sacred ways of strengthening resilience from within my body from the power of my breath and restoration. This practice, and the sitting in these places of pain physically and emotionally, showed me areas in my body where unresolved emotions and feelings were hiding\u2026 past trauma, stored emotion, \u201cissues in my tissues\u201d moment-to-moment and hour-by-hour brought me surrender and the releasing of fears to grant access to forgiveness and healing. Over the years I have learned that in order to sustain the strength and resilience of my body I must support my change and healing with integrity. The biggest part of my practice is having courage and not worrying if I am not strong enough. When I lean into my own ritual, during times of transition, I return to the place where I find peace. The place I remember sacred is an experience I can make for me and only me. That brings so much healing and for me it actually expedited my recovery time by 3 weeks!<\/span><\/p>\n

Other than your own offerings, which Wanderlust TV classes\/teachers would you recommend folks to try at home?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Wow! So many! Okay, these are just a few I tried to categorize..\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Goal Setting or Speakers:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n