Bindu Wellness Manifesto
Day-to-day stress and lack of mindfulness causes lack of connection to our bodies, feelings of depression, anxiety, and isolation. When we are checked out during exercise, we aren’t in tune with proper body alignment, our breathing, or whether we are pushing too far (or not working hard enough). The result is injury, chronic pain and stress, the inability to manage a healthy body weight, and depression and anxiety over our physical appearance (and mental state). Bindu is a Sanskrit word meaning "point;" in metaphysics, Bindu is considered the point at which creation begins and becomes unity. Bindu is about presence, sustainability, and quiet. Bindu Wellness combines aspects of yoga, meditation, psychology, nutrition, and therapeutic movement to enhance your life – at the cellular level, physical level, and in your relationships and work. Presence (not perfection) – through the techniques learned in yoga, meditation, and psychological principles, we actively choose to apply presence to our movement patterns (when exercising and in daily movement). Overtime, the presence learned through physical movement starts to merge into other areas of life including food choices and eating, communication in relationships, how we spend our time, and conscious choices in the larger environment. Sustainability - we make choices in our movement, health, and relationships that can be easily maintained and fit into the flow of our lifestyle. We don't push or overexert ourselves physically, mentally, or spiritually. We also don't play small or let go of strategies that that enhace our well-being. We value our energy as precious life force and relax and rest as needed. We also expand sustainablity efforts into managing our energy in relationships and how we utilize resources and goods in the environment. Quiet - regular practice of sitting and experiencing quiet is key to creating mental focus, clarity, and inner peace. Practicing quiet is balancing for an over-stimulated nervous system and leads to health, abundance, and inner guidance. When we enter silence and stay in silence, we come into direct contact with the sacred, the place of our Higher Self: the part of us that is connected to all of consciousness, holding the answers to all our questions, the solutions to all our problems.
