Tuesday Practice

Centering/Meditation

If you don't have time or space to do your physical practice, just do the meditation. You can be sitting upright parked in your car, sitting at your desk, standing in the grocery line. I just did this meditation while waiting for my students to come back from gym. Ahh... more centered more what's next!

Begin with your hands on your belly. Direct your breath towards your hands so you can feel your belly fill up into your hands on each inhale. As you move your breath towards your belly, also allow your awareness to shift towards your belly. Notice how whatever thoughts that feel agitating, distracting, or uncomfortable when you think about them in your head, begin to feel more manageable when you move them out of your head into your gut/heart. Notice how by simply breathing deeply into the belly, your feel more settled, more grounded, more balanced to move into each moment.

Practice

Down Dog

Shoulder Stretch while bowing forward; feet as wide as mat

Intense Side Stretch Pose both sides (SYJ: Two Straight Leg Pose)--Parsvottanasana

Handstand

Down Dog

Extended Side Angle Pose on right--Utthita Parsvakonasana

Vinyasa

Extended Side Angle Pose on left

Vinyasa

Boat Pose--Navasana

Vinyasa--stay in cobra 5 breaths; focus on lengthening belly forward on each inhale, curling deeper on each exhale

Thigh Stretch--on belly or from low lunge

Vinyasa

Bow Pose--Dhanurasana

Runner's Stretch both sides

Down Dog

Camel--Ustrasana

Lying on back straight leg stretch--Supta Padangusthasana

Savasana

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