This pandemic has certainly been a very long haul which has tested our coping skills to an extreme. Who would have expected us to have to restrain from in-person Yoga Classes for so long? But the amazing news is that we've been finally given the green light to return to our mats in outdoor Yoga class settings! Let the Yoga Spirit take over with full force, join me to get started now!
Injustice and bias based on any grounds; especially extreme forms of segregation such as the loss of life due to the color of one’s skin can leave us all brokenhearted, devastated and short of hope and courage. The intense pain so many of us are enduring makes us all bleed and feel ever so deeply for what appears to be out of tune with the beat of the human heart is just too hard to bear without prompting us to action.
Yoga is a great source of wisdom we can tap on to deal with the difficulty of practicing social isolation. The very essence of this ancient practice can be most beneficial in helping us to deal with our inability to pursue our human instincts to crave to connect with others.
As we all face the new reality in front of us, we all have a different response and ways to adapt to the overwhelming and challenging circumstances in front and ahead of us. Fear of the unknown can often have the common reaction to paralyze us and bring us to a state of sudden panic. Yet, there are other more healthy ways to respond to situations of crisis.
The nature of the mind is one which is constantly and actively busy, sending us messages, recorded tapes so to speak. filled with information about what we are doing, who we are, what we should be doing and constantly reminding us of all our regrets about the past or unfulfilled expectations about the future. Yoga teaches us to learn to control the mind and to step in to be the masters of our thoughts.
Christmas, New Year: The Holiday Season, may mean different things to each of us depending on our personal beliefs, traditions and ideas; however, we all recognize this time of the year as an opportunity to open our hearts to celebrate all which needs to be honored and cherished.
Yoga teaches us to open our hearts and embrace all which comes to us as an opportunity to fertilize our growth and generate sweet fruitful flavors even out of the most sour and bitter experiences of our lives.
Fall teaches us by example that all great things have to come to an end and even the most beautiful and colorful leaves must be shed off the trees rendering them fully exposed to their bare trunks. For many of us this can appear like a painful process of letting go.
Here are some great reasons to engage in Yoga practice during natural warm weather. Summertime brings along the heat and wakes our bodies up really quickly to the practice with many benefits to boot. For many of us we occasionally feel stiff not very flexible in the cold.