Inhale lift up your right leg, exhale low lunge plant your lifted foot between your hands, and inhale crescent lunge. As you get settled in your crescent lunge, notice how your thigh, hips, and shoulders are feeling. What sensations is your body giving you? What part of the body is stretching? Are you remembering to breathe? Try to deepen your breath a little more. Use the breath to relax the body or a body part.ContinueContinue reading “One Fish, Two Fish, Crescent Lunge, & Prayer Twist”
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Can I Bananasana With You?
Compassion is an amazing quality for a person to have. Understanding, gratefulness, and just a sense of happiness are also great qualities and vibes/energies a person can give off over their day, week, month, and year. I have notices since I have been reiki trained that I can pick up on the energy people give off, their own personal vibe. If it’s a stressed out vibe, I immediately feel it and 9 times out ofContinueContinue reading “Can I Bananasana With You?”
Yoga Date With Me, Myself, and I
Being alone is something that everyone experiences. Some people like it, others hate it. I tend to be one of those people that extremely enjoys being alone. It’s nice, quiet, I can get some work done, de-stress, sleep, talk to my lovely boyfriend (we both work all the time, are in school, and he is the father of an adorable almost 9 great old…….so we’re both super busy and don’t see each other a lot),ContinueContinue reading “Yoga Date With Me, Myself, and I”
Yoga, Warp Tour, & Hashimoto’s Disease
“When life gives you lemons……you make lemonade.” This is a quote/phrase/saying that is said to smooth any rough patches that life wants to throw at us. This is a very yoga type saying, it means try to find the good in all situations. But, sometimes you can’t find any good in a situation and you’re filled with nerves and anxiety. This is how I felt last weekend. Last weekend I met my boyfriend of overContinueContinue reading “Yoga, Warp Tour, & Hashimoto’s Disease”
Restore Your Mind, Body, & Soul
When you (yes I am talking to you) think of yoga, what comes to your mind? Workout, zent out, bending, relaxation, or another word? People go to yoga classes for different reasons, whether it be emotional, physical, or a combination of both. Personally I got into yoga for strictly stress management. I was just starting college, working, and was in a long term relationship at the time. So I felt like I was being pulledContinueContinue reading “Restore Your Mind, Body, & Soul”