Find your inner stability when you feel depleted and uncertain
When did you last feel like a superhero: strong, confident, capable, and vibrant? Try this short standing yoga practice to awaken your inner hero! This practice uses standing and balancing poses with a stable Superhero stance to get you anchored in your body and help you feel more vibrant.
When something unexpected or challenging happens in your life, you might feel as if you have lost control over what’s going on. What can reliably help is connecting to your breath.
Olga thank you for continuing to support
So many of us in trying times
The quality of our lives can in some ways be defined by the quality of the information we receive from the world around us and within us, through our bodily senses. At its essence Yoga could be defined by the quality of the relationship we have with our own bodies, and our capacity for choice on how we receive this information.
There has been to some extent a marriage between Eastern and Western attitudes that has resulted in ‘mind over matter’ approaches being absorbed into Yoga. This risks the meditative base at the heart of Yoga practice, where the body should be as much a guide to the mind, as the mind is to the body.
Some modern philosophers question our capacity to make real choices, but this disregards the wonderful ability most possess to choose where and how we direct our attention.
The mind and the body working as a synchronicity, and the removal of the dominating ‘will of the mind’ from the equation must by definition involve a choice made through a facility that does not have its root in our intellectual consciousness.
Yoga at its heart encourages the exploration of this paradox. Poses, exercises and techniques evolve but the discipline at the core remains the choice we make on how we direct our attention.
Thank-you Olga, these are lovely practices. Your creativity is an inspiration, Thank-you