Sharing my space with my buddy!
yogaatalex
With my eyes I see a window to the sea….with my spirit I feel the freedom of the moment!
Make the time to find peace!
In the silence of the morning, just before the sun rises is a time when your thoughts have not yet started to zoom around your brain.
This is the perfect time for meditation and light yoga, so you can start each day fresh with a clear mind and a limber body.
I like to finish each day with the sunset to remind myself to bring closure to events, thoughts and decisions of the day.
I am lucky to see the sunset while my evening yoga class is on and I feel this creates a significant impact on the body and mind connection.
The sunset re enforces the need to let go of the stuff each day brings even though some altercations or actions though the day have made us uncomfortable or angry or fearful.
As humans we are organic and our bodies will absorb peoples words and actions everyday. If you let this build up within you, it creates a stressful environment mentally and physically. We must learn to let go of all events daily, this is why it feels so good to unwind the body through yoga so the mind follows and both become relaxed and calm.
We are reminded that our wellbeing is of upmost importance and nothing is more vital than health and happiness.
Love yourself and set yourself free through yoga.
Namaste !
Yoga makes me Happy!
Get in the swing!
This time of year is all about caring for yourself, so lets make us some good clean energy!
Healthy food and moving our bodies will create clean ,healthy energy, this is going to make us feel good.
When we feel good ,we are happy, we are emotionally stable, we are content .
So veggies, salads,get those antioxidents in for glowing skin, shiny hair, proteins to grow new cells of every kind .
A happy body will give you the energy you desire that positive vibe of goodness oozing from your smile!
Of course Im going to say part of feeling good is moving.
Feeling your body moving in a flowing motion accompanied by your amazing breathe, is the final key in unlocking your world of knowlegde about what you need to function at your most vibrational level.
The path or journey of self realisation is really about loving everything you are, so by following only two rules most of the time
1. Eat healthy and 2. practice yoga. will bring you there.
Open your heart
Stretching your chest muscles, opens the heart chakra and gives the body a feeling of release and freedom.
By using the arms you can open or close the upper body.
Here are three movements to open your minor and major pectoral muscles.
1. Take your hands behind your back, innerlace the fingers and draw your shoulder blades together, you will feel the chest muscles opening and spreading energy through the front of the body, take some deep exhales.
2. Move your arms one at a time in circles backwards, like you were doing backstroke with a single arm and breathe deeply.
3. Take your right arm and straighten it above your head then bend it at the elbow and drop it down your back, have the palm of your hand facing to your back and creep the fingers as far as you can get reaching towards the bottom of the shoulder blade.Then take your left hand and reach behind your back and try to link hands ( if you have a gap between the hands use a strap to bridge the gap until this gets easier to do. Once you have the hands holding the strap or your hands linking draw the shoulders open and breathe.
All these stretches done regularly will improve your wellbeing and make you feel happier and less anxious as well as correcting your posture.
Recognise stress and let it go!
New Addition to Yoga at Alex
Introducing Ruby the new addition to Yoga at Alex, she is just as enthusiastic about Yoga as I am. She is on the mat ready to go,without any encouragement.
Animals have a strong instinct to stretch and keep their bodies supple and strong. Animals will stretch each time they get up from lying down which is perhaps exactly what we humans need to do.
Downward dog pose is Ruby’s favourite stretch and I can easily see how beneficial it is to the spine, muscles and it shows a definite mental release.
She smiles while she stretches which is quite obvious and makes the pose contagious, as with any yoga pose there is a certain release and a smile will appear if not on the lips ,it is certainly in the heart.
Yoga helps us rejoice in the small things life has to offer, which in my opinion is the doorway to a happy life.
So Enjoy your downward dog and feel lucky to be able to feel the magic of yoga!
