We can spend oh so many hours sitting at a computer! Here are some stretches that I’ve used today to help show my spine some love while I live the office life 🌿Cat-Cow (Marjaryasana-Bitilasana): inhale as you look up expanding your chest and opening your shoulders, exhale as you crouch inwards looking down towards yourContinue reading “Stretch in your home office”
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Balasana (Childs Pose) + Variations
Balasana is a beautiful posture for calming and centring the mind and body, it relaxes us deeply and relieves stress. It stretches the hips, thighs, ankles, and releases the spine and shoulders. Instructions: Kneel in Vajrasana (Kneeling Pose). Inhale and lengthen the spine. Exhale and engage abdominal muscles then fold forward from the hip jointsContinue reading “Balasana (Childs Pose) + Variations”
Breathe in the Sky
Go outside and stand with your feet hip-width apart and flat to the earth, your body centred. Look up to the sky as you take a slow deep belly breath in. With your lungs full pause and take in the view. As you exhale slowly bring your gaze to the ground. Keep your hands onContinue reading “Breathe in the Sky”
What is Sivananda Yoga?
Sivananda yoga incorporates some of the more spiritual aspects of yoga and is ideal for people seeking these teachings within their yoga practice. Sivananda Yoga is a systematic and precise approach to classical Hatha Yoga, and is one of the few schools that still follow the traditional and authentic yogic disciplines. It is based onContinue reading “What is Sivananda Yoga?”
What is Hatha Yoga?
Hatha yoga is a branch of yoga primarily concerned with mastery of the body, it is generally practiced more slowly and with more static posture holds then found in other yoga styles. However, Hatha yoga encompasses much more than the physical practice, traditionally Hatha yoga offered a total life philosophy, incorporating how we related toContinue reading “What is Hatha Yoga?”