COURSE

A Star In My Pocket

What if uncomfortable moments don’t have to automatically shut you down in an attempt to avoid pain, but can instead become a guiding star, leading you back to what you love — connection with life and the people you love? These seven short tracks explore an alive way to create inner freedom to choose what lifts you instead of tearing you and your relationships down. Each track comes with a simple written challenge for the day.

Meet your Teacher

Anya Vibeland

Fagerstrand, Norway

Anya Vibeland has been teaching Hatha yoga for over two decades, with thousands of hours spent exploring what helps us bring awareness both on and off the mat. She is also trained in Psychodrama and Rhythm for Evolution — TaKeTiNa — in the United States. Her teaching grows from a lifelong self-study and a natural, deep curiosity about what is going on underneath the surface of our habitual reactions, relationships, and how the Soul can become a real power in our everyday lives.

8 Days

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5 min / day

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Lesson 1

The Introduction

How many ways do we reject the very moment we are in, the people in it, what is happening and even ourselves? After exploring this question, life gave me a whole day to experience it in action. This course grew from what I discovered along the way and from finding more freedom to choose, instead of being run by the protection system.

Lesson 2

My highest Priority

What happens when I consciously choose my highest priority, and what happens when I don’t? In this first track, I share the star I chose for myself: to be present with whatever is here, the way it is. And then, of course, life decided to put me to the test.

Lesson 3

The Suprise

I thought my highest priority would be mostly about how I relate to others when I am in relational interaction. But to my surprise, I discovered that how I am in my thinking mind when I am alone matters even more and actually shapes how I react later on.

Lesson 4

The Judgment Trap

Even our deepest intentions can become another reason to judge. In this track, I catch myself using my highest priority against someone else and discover what happens when I turn my attention back to my own reactions instead of mistaking my judgment for the truth.

Lesson 5

Freedom From Plus And Minus

How quickly I put a positive or negative charge on everything I experience. In this track, I explore what happens when I take away the minus and make the inner room big enough for what is, and discover the freedom of not having to label every experience as good or bad.

Lesson 6

Three Ways Of Rejection

Walking through the forest with my daughter, I suddenly saw three habitual ways I reject an uncomfortable moment: numbing, attacking, and becoming the victim. What happens when I notice them and remember my “star”: the willingness to feel the rawness of what I actually feel?

Lesson 7

A Star In My Pocket

Without a clear intention, I can easily become like a feather in the wind. In this track, the highest priority becomes something much more tangible than a star in the sky; it becomes something real, something within reach that can help me turn conflict into true connection again.

Lesson 8

The Final Lesson

By evening, I was still caught in the battle, trying to think my way back to the spaciousness I had been practicing all day. The harder I tried, the more contracted I became. Then I stopped trying to figure it out and asked: What is true for me right now? The moment I touched the truth, something opened. The battle dissolved, and I found myself back in clear presence with my daughter, with myself, and with life.

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