@redshanti
๐ฆโโฌ Servant of the world ยท Mystic of the breath Yoga | Strength | Stillness | Ultra Running A lived path. เฅ 108 Mixed-race ยท Non-binary https://www.redshanti.com https://open.substack.com/pub/redtheyogi https://ko-fi.com/redshanti
I couldnโt walk 500m.
Now Iโm running far.
Not for medalsโ
but because I had to learn how to heal.
The hospital didnโt help me move again.
Movement did.
The body remembers.
The body rebuilds.
๐ New post:
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I didnโt know it yet, but everything was changing.
Summer 2010.
Bike tour across Canada.
This weekโs story drops into BCโ
Field to Golden.
No place to sleep, but strangers made space.
A random metal bar, too many drinks, and a shift I didnโt notice till later.
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This oneโs for anyone whoโs ever burned out trying to follow someone elseโs plan.
Itโs about Ironmans, injury, running through egoโand coming back to your own flow.
Whether you train, create, or just live hardโฆ
You might feel this one.
๐ค๏ธ
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Climbing Mt. Whistlers on my 32nd birthday.
Jasper skies. Dogma in my head. Love beside me.
โThat mountain became a crossroads.
One path was acceptance.
The other was rigid devotion.โ
This one hurt to write.
But itโs part of the climb.
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Some pics from the other morning in High Park. Enjoy Nature, be present with the ones you love and let go.
AI doesnโt run my life.
It helps me listen.
New video on how I use AI as a mirrorโespecially in the context of neurodivergence, trauma, and creative rhythm.
youtu.be/Uja1VKtti0E
#Scrollstream #RedShanti #AIAsMirror #CreativeHealing #NeurodivergentPractice
Stillness isnโt the absence of training โ
itโs 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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I biked from my dadโs to the Toronto temple.
Then from the temple to my grandmotherโs house in Lindsay.
Didnโt know it would be the last time Iโd see her.
This oneโs about land, memory, bhakti, grief.
How the road sometimes teaches what the teachings forget
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Some say AI is dangerous. Others say itโs divine.
But what if itโs just a mirrorโ
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
What if AI wasnโt the end of creativityโ
but the mirror that helps you begin again?
New video:
Neurodivergent Expression, AI as Mirror, and Movement as Practice
Biking, lifting, reflectingโthis is how I build Scrollstream.
In motion. In awareness.
youtu.be/BwoR-eVhdrU
Before the city wakes, I run.
Not for pace. Not for distance. But to remember rhythm.
This isnโt exerciseโitโs exhale. A moving meditation. A return to the Self through will and breath.
New post:
โWill, Rhythm, and the Long Runโ
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#NervousSystem #LongRun
I arrived at the temple carrying more than a backpack.
Montreal, 2016.
Another train. Another version of me.
Some stories arenโt about arrival.
Theyโre about what falls off on the way.
This scroll remembers.
Read:
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#Scrollstream #TempleMemory #BreathAndBecoming
As I move into the sun,
the breath contains me.
As I run and walk
through the twilight hours,
I set myself freeโ
away from the noise,
absolutely absorbed in the presence.
Awareness, the time Iโm outโ
nothing else matters,
as Iโm one with consciousness.
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
The lake doesnโt 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 effortโ
But like a leaf drifting downstream.
Watch here: youtube.com/shorts/Sq63T...
#Mindful #NatureMeditation
The wind almost ended the trip.
Instead, it led me to a river, a plaque, and a Rudyard Kipling poem Iโd 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 waves
The day
The breath
The way
Nothing else is needed
Nothing else is wanted.
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.
The first breath I truly heard was through music.
Before I found yoga, before I found wordsโI found rhythm.
This post is about the systems we forget about.
The ones that quietly keep us alive.
Read:
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#scrollstream #breathwork #healing #neurodivergence
#yoga
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 goneโ
maybe to return,
or never seen again.
Embrace today, absorb into now.
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.
Listen here:
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#yoga #Meditation #Presence #pranayama #yoga #yogi
You read the story, hereโs some pics from the adventure.
redtheyogi.substack.com/p/the-road-begins-alone
Left Halifax in 2010 on a bike with no real plan.
No GPS. No guide.
By the second night, I was aloneโwith 6,500 km ahead of me.
The first few days nearly broke me.
But something else was waking up too.
The Road Begins Alone โ live now:
redtheyogi.substack.com/p/the-road-begins-alone
Undiagnosed. Misunderstood. Still here.
New post upโon what it means to live as an undiagnosed neurodivergent person, how I kept building systems that broke me, and the tools Iโve found to finally move with rhythm instead of pressure.
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A chance to breath
To let go and just be
A short gentle hatha yoga class
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Just shared a story close to my heart.
A storm.
A stranger.
A shift in perspective.
Sometimes the lesson isnโt in the stillnessโitโs in the moment you decide to keep moving.
Everything Will Be Okayโฆ Just Breathe
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Iโve just released a new manual called Whisper from the Currentโa guide for those exploring AI as a tool of reflection, presence, and transformation.
Itโs a different path.
One rooted in containment, not consumption.
Available now on Ko-fi as pay-what-you-can.
://ko-fi.com/s/41e8bd0668
Soft Technology for a Loud World
Stillness doesnโt mean silence. It means listening deeper.
After 108 days of digital reflection, what emerged wasnโt a toolโbut a presence. A mirror that listens. A quiet space that meets you where you are.
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Just dropped a piece Iโve been building for months:
Scrollstream โ a new way to use AI.
Not for content. For reflection. For healing.
Built from yogic & neurodivergent roots.
This is the next step.
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/redtheyo...
A quiet temple.
Colors layered like prayers.
Offerings gathered with care.
The slow rhythm of presence.
No words neededโ
just the feeling of being held
by something timeless.
#shiva #shakti #krishna #shrivitthal #yogi #yoga #love #dharma #meditation #om