I hope you'll join me in my new online studio. But mostly, I hope that you are able to slow down just a bit this season. And may you create even a little more space for yourself - for rest or for what every nourishes you, brings you joy, restores your energy, or simply invites you to relax more into a sense of ease and wellbeing.
Read MoreAs Sharon Salzberg teaches:
Read MoreIt doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years—we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. —Sharon Salzberg
Viktor Frankl wrote, "What is to give light must endure burning. Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
The bottom line is: the more we practice on the mat, the more our practice is there for us in the challenging moments of our lives. Ultimately, our time on the yoga mat is the 'pre-game'. Our real practice begins, when we step off our mat.
Enjoy the summer and stay cool. Let go of stress with this simple yet powerful practice. After just five minutes, you’ll feel relaxed, refreshed, and ready to focus on your day with renewed clarity. Watch now.
Read MoreEnjoy the summer and stay cool. Let go of stress with this simple yet powerful practice. After just five minutes, you’ll feel relaxed, refreshed, and ready to focus on your day with renewed clarity. Watch now.
Read More“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe Me.’ Look what happens with a love like that, it lights up the whole sky.”
Join me and Yoga Journal for this FREE one hour practice integrating a mindful slow flow and deeply restorative relaxation practice that will invite us to savor and receive the sun's vibrant healing energy.
Yogis have long practiced aligning with the life giving force the sun, Surya, and expressing reverence for it’s gifts of beauty. In this profound yet simple sequence, we will pause for a deeper clearing stagnant energy making more space for your inner radiance and creative energy to glow and flow.
Props Needed: 2-3 blankets and two blocks. And a pillow.
(If you don't have yoga blanket - large beach towels would be great)
