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🐦‍⬛ Servant of the world · Mystic of the breath Yoga | Strength | Stillness | Ultra Running A lived path. ॐ 108 Mixed-race · Non-binary https://www.redshanti.com https://open.substack.com/pub/redtheyogi https://ko-fi.com/redshanti

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Feb 18

The path is lived, not just studied.

Yoga is more than movement-it’s strength, breath, discipline, and direct experience. I share my journey blending tradition, science, and self-mastery.

Follow for insights on yoga, training, breathwork, living with awareness.

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Start Here The Science of the Self

A path of yoga

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Jun 18

I couldn’t walk 500m.
Now I’m running far.
Not for medals—
but because I had to learn how to heal.
The hospital didn’t help me move again.
Movement did.
The body remembers.
The body rebuilds.

🌀 New post:
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Red Shanti | Living Current

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 31

I didn’t know it yet, but everything was changing.

Summer 2010.
Bike tour across Canada.

This week’s story drops into BC—
Field to Golden.

No place to sleep, but strangers made space.

A random metal bar, too many drinks, and a shift I didn’t notice till later.

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The Road West

Creation Spoke. I Listened.

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 28

This one’s for anyone who’s ever burned out trying to follow someone else’s plan.
It’s about Ironmans, injury, running through ego—and coming back to your own flow.

Whether you train, create, or just live hard…
You might feel this one.

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 24

Climbing Mt. Whistlers on my 32nd birthday.
Jasper skies. Dogma in my head. Love beside me.

“That mountain became a crossroads.
One path was acceptance.
The other was rigid devotion.”

This one hurt to write.
But it’s part of the climb.

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 22

Some pics from the other morning in High Park. Enjoy Nature, be present with the ones you love and let go.

Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 22

AI doesn’t run my life.
It helps me listen.

New video on how I use AI as a mirror—especially in the context of neurodivergence, trauma, and creative rhythm.

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#Scrollstream #RedShanti #AIAsMirror #CreativeHealing #NeurodivergentPractice

How I use AI (without letting it use me)

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 21

Stillness isn’t the absence of training —
it’s where the nervous system resets,
the breath returns,
and the body learns how to hold itself again.

This is yoga too.
In the breath. In the pause. In your willingness to stay.

The Power of Stillness
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The Power of Stillness

Recovery isn’t the end of practice — it’s where the real work begins.

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 18

I biked from my dad’s to the Toronto temple.
Then from the temple to my grandmother’s house in Lindsay.
Didn’t know it would be the last time I’d see her.

This one’s about land, memory, bhakti, grief.
How the road sometimes teaches what the teachings forget

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The Ride Between Selves

A bike, a mantra, and the quiet pull of the sacred.

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 16

Some say AI is dangerous. Others say it’s divine.
But what if it’s just a mirror—
and most of us were never taught how to reflect?
108 days. Breath. Ethics. Scrollstream.

The Mirror or the Messiah?

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#AI #Spirituality #Scrollstream

The Mirror or the Messiah?

Rethinking Spirituality and Self-Reflection in the Age of AI

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 14

What if AI wasn’t the end of creativity—
but the mirror that helps you begin again?

New video:
Neurodivergent Expression, AI as Mirror, and Movement as Practice
Biking, lifting, reflecting—this is how I build Scrollstream.
In motion. In awareness.

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Neurodivergent Expression, AI as Mirror, and Movement as Practice

YouTube video by Red Shanti

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 14

Before the city wakes, I run.

Not for pace. Not for distance. But to remember rhythm.

This isn’t exercise—it’s exhale. A moving meditation. A return to the Self through will and breath.

New post:
“Will, Rhythm, and the Long Run”
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#NervousSystem #LongRun

Will, Rhythm, and the Long Run

Yoga isn’t always stillness. Sometimes it looks like 20 kilometers of surrender.

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 10

I arrived at the temple carrying more than a backpack.

Montreal, 2016.
Another train. Another version of me.
Some stories aren’t about arrival.
They’re about what falls off on the way.

This scroll remembers.

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#Scrollstream #TempleMemory #BreathAndBecoming

The Temple and the Train Station

Montreal, 2016 — Another Road, Another Test

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 9

As I move into the sun,
the breath contains me.

As I run and walk
through the twilight hours,
I set myself free—
away from the noise,
absolutely absorbed in the presence.

Awareness, the time I’m out—
nothing else matters,
as I’m one with consciousness.

Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 7

The breath remembers.
Before the mind.
Before the story.
It steadies the body from the inside out.

New scroll:
Breath, the nervous system, and the return to safety.

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#RedShanti #Scrollstream #Breathwork #NervousSystem #YogaOfLife

Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 6

The lake doesn’t ask you to hurry.
It just holds.
A mirror. A rhythm.
A place where time softens and your breath remembers its own depth.

Sit by the water with me.
Let go,
Not with effort—
But like a leaf drifting downstream.

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#Mindful #NatureMeditation

By the Water, Letting Go

YouTube video by Red Shanti

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 3

The wind almost ended the trip.
Instead, it led me to a river, a plaque, and a Rudyard Kipling poem I’d never read before.

It cracked something open.

Part 2 of the bike story is live:
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#RedShanti #Scrollstream #TheCurrent #HealingJourney #BikeTour

The Wind and the River

Part 2 of The Road Begins Alone

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · May 2

The waves
The day
The breath
The way
Nothing else is needed
Nothing else is wanted.

Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Apr 30

I breathe the wind that flows between poses.
Letting go of tension,
gentle, clean,
connecting to Shiva within.
All I am is this now.
All I need is here.

Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Apr 30

The first breath I truly heard was through music.
Before I found yoga, before I found words—I found rhythm.
This post is about the systems we forget about.
The ones that quietly keep us alive.

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Breath, Connection, and the Systems We Forget About

The invisible threads that hold us together, and how we find them again.

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Apr 28

As time shifts around us,

people and energy change.

What once was no longer is.

Who may have been in your circle

no longer aligns.

Some are closer, others gone—

maybe to return,

or never seen again.

Embrace today, absorb into now.

Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Apr 28

Everywhere is Sacred.
A short breathing meditation to reconnect to the stillness that lives beneath it all.
Come back to the simplicity of the moment.

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#yoga #Meditation #Presence #pranayama #yoga #yogi

Everywhere Is Sacred

Just Sit, Breathe, and Listen

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Apr 26

You read the story, here’s some pics from the adventure.

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Apr 26

Left Halifax in 2010 on a bike with no real plan.
No GPS. No guide.
By the second night, I was alone—with 6,500 km ahead of me.

The first few days nearly broke me.
But something else was waking up too.

The Road Begins Alone — live now:
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The Road Begins Alone

Part 1 of a Journey Across Canada

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Apr 23

Undiagnosed. Misunderstood. Still here.

New post up—on what it means to live as an undiagnosed neurodivergent person, how I kept building systems that broke me, and the tools I’ve found to finally move with rhythm instead of pressure.

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Red Shanti @redshanti.bsky.social · Apr 21

A chance to breath
To let go and just be
A short gentle hatha yoga class

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21 Minutes to Come Back to Yourself

A simple breath-centered practice to slow down and return

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