Your Personal Yoga Practice Begins Here
Answering these questions is key to a sustainable yoga practice….
Personal Yoga Practice: the Unexpected Missing Ingredient for Great Results
“You don’t have to have years of experience or teacher training behind you to practice on your own. A few principles can give you initial confidence that then grows as you meet yourself on the mat…..”
Winterize Your Yoga Practice
5 Tips for Winterizing Your Yoga Practice
Yoga between 6am and 10am and practice in a warming fashion: Exert early. This doesn’t necessarily mean HIIT - though it could, in conjunction with an engaged practice. Doing it during this time, takes advantage of the times of day the body is in “build” mode. Daniel Pink in his acclaimed book When: the scientific secrets of perfect timing acknowledges that timing can make all the difference. Use it to your advantage.
Wake before or with the sun: This will help you reset your rhythm so it’s natural to be asleep at 10pm. Aligning your habits with circadian rhythms helps the immune system function properly and be ready to clear out the trash (non-functioning cells) at the time of night your organs are ready for the work. Creating rituals helps your habits stick.
If you can’t yoga early, make it half and half: You need to exert during these months more than ever, your body needs this to keep muscles balanced, to keep fascia mobile and bones strong. But if you’re yogaing after 4-5 in the evening, make the first half the warming, even sweaty part. In the second half, scale it down, moving toward yin or restorative, adding in cooling breaths, longer savanna and meditation. Your sleep with thank you.
I rolled out my yoga mat… now what?
“Sequencing - or “what do I do now?” - is where the rubber hits the road in a physical asana practice. What do you do when you roll out the mat? How about right after that? When do you know you’re done? Do you just pose - pose - pose - pose, like you’re voguing in a club???…”
Principles of Healing Movement -brought to you by yoga
Six principles of healing movement for your whole live - brought to you by yoga.
Increase Focus, Energy, Mood, and Sleep With Late Summer Yoga
For Late Summer yoga asana practice, we continue with a scaled-back intensity of heat in our yoga practice and focus on rest, revolved or twisted postures, and True Core.
Lying down, gentle twists
Revolved child’s pose
Revolved side angle pose
Revolved Triangle
Twisted Angel…..
Early Summer Flavors, Flavor Theory Summed Up
Last week in our guide to the Spring - Early Summer Rtusandhi I gave you the flavors that balance vata, full stop. The problem was that I said those are the flavors to focus on for Early Summer. To review, the flavors that balance vata are sweet, sour and salty. Sweet, sour and salty would help sustain kapha as well, which if we’re basically healthy and have been following the flavors and asana/paranayama/meditation for the seasons is waning. Sour (which includes ferments like yogurt) is also very grounding
Current Research on Yoga
Current research on yoga in several areas with links to free articles where available.
Yoga for Great Immunity This Winter
Whether you’re already a yogi or looking for an adaptable, portable, body-weight movement practice, you can use the shifts of Autumn to inspire and fuel your health routines. …
Questions to Reduce Anxiety in Yoga and Life
3. Non-stealing: We’re used to applying this to our interpersonal relationships, but in yoga, it all begins at home. Are you stealing time or attention from one thing for another that’s actually less important to you? (Hello, multitasking!) Are you compensating for weakness or pain …..
Release stress, strain and pain with simple shaking
Release stress, strain, worry and some pain with a simple series of movements that invite shaking, or trembling in the muscles of the low back, pelvis and neck, as well sometimes as arms and legs.
Transitions as Templates in Yoga and Life: Spring to Early Summer
How to Change Your Routine and Habits in this time:
To cooperate with this process, here are ideas for each area of your routine (dinacharya) to consider incorporating during this transitional time:
-Flavors to focus on….
-Yoga Practice Tips…
-As always….
-Considering a “cleanse”? This is a great time and kitchari “fasts” are ideal. For a span of time from 4 days to 2 weeks, you eat 3 very simple meals a day…
Enjoy the return of energy, radiance and vigor!
Demystifying Asana, Virabhadrasana, Vrksasana-Video.
If you have taken our yoga class or any then you must be familiar with the term “Asana”, it simply means "pose" or "position. It is the asana at the end of a practice, when you just lay still and breathe deeply.
Easy Warrior and Tree Pose Yoga Practice Video
Super simple Hatha yoga practice based on the pose names “demystified” in the previous video. Appropriate for beginners as well as experienced yogis. Modifications and supports demonstrated and discussed. …
Understanding Healing Yoga; Spirituality and Sensory Awareness.
The way I help people experience spirituality in different modalities is through breath movement and imagination exercises also known as meditation or relaxation. I also offer these exercises in an effort to provide a sensory experience.
Feeling sluggish? Spring Yoga can Help
As the spring greens emerge, our bodies respond just like the roots and begin to move our energy and manifestation outward…
Your Yoga November 21
Our practice will again go up a notch in warming practice for morning, building strength and supporting your circadian rhythms. Join one of TWO morning practices! 6am Wednesday Sun Salutations with Miaurachelle and 6am Friday Yoga + HIIT (also Sun Salute based, with accessible, adaptable Sun Salutation cycle and scalable intervals) with Christine.
