Why Your Core Needs You To Relax & Breathe
Relaxation is an essential ingredient to stabilization. Our system is self organizing around the core center. When we think we […]
Relaxation is an essential ingredient to stabilization. Our system is self organizing around the core center. When we think we […]
This is my yoga today. The yoga of life, death and rebirth at play. The cycles that we have no control over – any more than we have control over our own impermanence. Blame climate change, living in a vulnerable place like a small island, whatever you want; it is easier to accept the trees dropping their leaves, or the new flowers opening as change because we are not afraid. And we celebrate birth in the spring lambs and humans alike, as they go unrecognized as change. But when transition is destruction, we are hardwired for fear and non-acceptance. Yoga is my path to acknowledge that something is dying and, therefore, changing, morphing, transitioning. I recognize it in every savasana.
I often get asked how to start or establish a regular Somatic Yoga practice – what movements to start with, what order to do them in, how many repetitions, and how is Somatic Yoga its different from “regular” yoga. This week we launched a free “Learn Somatic Yoga” video series on YouTube. It is an invitation for you to begin a regular practice. Each video is just one movement, and the videos do not need to be done in any specific order. Choose what sounds interesting!
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