17:30
Coffee with almond milk
1 packet trail mix
1/2 medallion goat cheese
There’s a lot of things you can do to toughen up your wheel/backbending practice!
From wheel ….
1. Do this pic.
2. Walk your feet to the midline of your body and straighten your legs. Your chest should push closer to the back of the room.
3. Do wheel pushups. Bend the elbows and touch your forehead to the mat then straighten the arms again.
4. Drop your elbows to the mat. (You might want some help here. Have someone hold onto your hips or just be ready to roll onto the side and fall?).
5. Walk your feet a little closer to the hands and see if you can point one foot towards your hands (like lift the foot off the mat to do this) and then see if you can touch that shin to the mat (essentially knee to mat). Then come back up to wheel and try the other one. If you get both knees to the mat, I’ve seen people kind of “roll” up to camel.
6. Walk your feet a little closer to the hands and hop up into a handstand then to down dog.
7. I remember someone submitted a fun wheel pose where they turned around clockwise on the mat where their hands were where their feet were and the feet were where the hands were. Then they rotated around counter clockwise. Challenges the perception and awareness! And is challenging for the body too.
ETC ETC! Fun transitions.
Wheel itself is difficult. … So watch your ego. Never do a yoga pose that is beyond your capabilities! If you’re fine in supported bridge pose … that’s COOOOOLLL TOOOOO
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
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World Records: World's Oldest Yoga Teacher Might Also Be World's Happiest Person(via @Jezebel)
“I am going to teach yoga until I can’t breathe anymore. Then it’s going to carry me to the next planet. I love yoga. It brightens my day, and it makes everybody smile.”
For a while, we thought that 91-year-old Bernice Bates of Florida was the world’s oldest yoga instructor, but it turns out the Guinness Book of World Records has just given 93-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch the official title.
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Snacks
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Knees to the chest; Heels to the bottom.
When lifting off for handstand, do this for the leg that hops.
You will float up effortlessly.
You can also do knees to the chest; heels to the bottom, when hopping up with both legs. This takes more strength in the core (and I can’t do it yet).
Advice comes from Kathryn Budig on Yoga Journal.
kick up into a handstand!
Good to know!
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the Universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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- Joseph Campbell
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so youthinkyoucan….98…99..100 !
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Found this great video full yoga class! I can’t wait to try it tomorrow morning, let loose and get more flexible.
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