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.
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!
How to Make Your Personal Yoga Practice a Habit You Don’t Want to Break
When the desired habit is Personal Yoga Practice (PYP), that means choosing the context that will trigger the habit. This is one element of why zoom yoga classes can be so great: it used to be that only going to the yoga studio would trigger this activity, because that’s how we did it. Now, when you can take a live yoga class in your own home, wherever you choose, you can actually make a bridge from class to PYP simply by yogaing in the same location.
