Neutralize the tension
Added 2022-08-16 12:46:20 +0000 UTCExploring the theme of attachment and aversion, practice recognizing when your nervous system gets activated and neutralize through awareness. Begin with a movement to clear and refresh the aura and warm up with cat/cows and hip circles. Practice deep belly breathing in prostration pose and a long-held sphinx, recognize your mental patterns in dragon, and move energy on the back in half happy baby, reclined tree, and side bends.
Props: two blocks and a blanket
Benefits: neutralize the mind, exploring polarity, diaphragmatic breathing, solar plexus, hips, quadriceps, thighs, spine, lower triangle, inner strength and fortitude
Living Your Yoga embodiment practice: “How should it be?,” a Mantra for Daily Living, is a powerful practice. Say it for the next several days (or longer) when you feel yourself caught in either attachment or aversion. It can remind you that things are as they are and that you have the freedom to react or not.
Mantra for Daily Living: How should it be?
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