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Tapas: The Hard Stuff
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January Class Themes:
Freedom from Pain. Skill in Action. Evenness of Mind. This is Yoga... Svaroopa® Yoga.
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Monday & Tuesday Pre-Natal Yoga
Key Principle: Release your spine and create more internal space for you and your Baby! Be more comfortable in your Self | Wednesday
Upper Back Release Developing Cat and Cow Key Principle: Open your whole spine and your arms and legs become stronger.
Freedom from Pain
Upper Spine Release teaches us how to use the Svaroopa® yoga principles of release to open the second tightest point in our spines- directly behind the heart. When the base of the spine and ribcage are tight it causes us to over-use the waist and neck areas, making them hyper-flexible and weak- susceptible to all sorts of injury and pain. By releasing the whole spine we begin to support the weaker areas of our spine and bring balance back into our movement. This is Freedom from Pain.
Skill in Action
Normally we use our back muscles for everything, sort of dragging our heavy limbs along with us. When we open the spine our arms and legs naturally become stronger and more effective. Be can begin to rely on the natural dynamics of our bodies’ physical strength, allowing our core to stay open and flexible. This is Skill in Action.
Evenness of Mind
As we practice our Upper Spine Release poses we become increasingly aware of our whole spine and each individual vertebra of the spine. Awareness is the magic ingredient that leads us to greater health and deeper understanding of our Selves. Opening the spine behind the heart immediately calms the mind. We can sink into the patient curiosity that we call awareness. This is Evenness of Mind.
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Deeper
DIVE DEEP into yourSelf
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Standing
Strengthen your Bones Key Principle: Take your yoga with you.
Freedom from Pain
With this theme we learn that freedom from pain does not rely on rolling around on the floor. We get up and begin not only using standing poses to release the spine but learning how to settle into the support of our own bones to maintain an open spine. We begin to truly get a sense that we can work, play and live without strain or effort. This is Freedom from Pain.
Skill in Action
By developing our ability to settle into our bones and maintain an open spine we learn tha we can do “hard” things, even “hard” poses, without tightening up. In fact, in Svaroopa® we can actually use these “hard” poses to achieve some of our deepest and most powerful releases. As we learn essential principles that allow us to carry those changes into our everyday way of doing things, those “hard” things actually become easy and rewarding. This is Skill in Action.
Evenness of Mind
Taking your yoga with you means taking your bliss with you. Settling into our bones allows us to come into a natural state of deep inner balance. Our sense of Self becomes unwavering and we find that even in the ups and downs of everyday life we can make choices that arise from integrity and our own Self-knowing. This is Evenness of Mind.
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