DAY 16 – MORE HOT VINYASA

Ahhhhh….. Nothing like starting the day with a great, sweaty, hot vinyasa practice.  Breathing, moving and sweating on your mat is the most amazing way to detoxify, lengthen, strengthen and feel completely renewed.  Thanks, Leigh, for a wonderful practice!

Affirmation for meditation:  I am at peace.  I repeated this mantra throughout my entire practice.  Absolutely wonderful.

 

September 5, 2011   Posted in: Yoga  One Comment

DAY 15 – WE’RE HALFWAY THERE!

Greetings, Yogis & Yoginis!  Thank you to all who have committed to this 30-day period of breathing, practice, meditation and growth.  I hope you’re all feeling the effects of what a daily practice brings to your life!  We’re halfway there!

I started my day with a short meditation, then a steamy Hot Vinyasa Class at Charm City Yoga in Severna Park!  Thanks, Monica, for a challenging practice!

Affirmation for meditation:  I claim my own power and I lovingly create my own reality.

September 4, 2011   Posted in: Yoga  2 Comments

DAY 14 – LATE NIGHT MEDITATION

Rod Stryker – Meditations for Inner and Outer Peace.  I practiced the Ujjayi and Unconditional Healing Meditations.  Great stuff before bedtime (hence the late post).

 

September 4, 2011   Posted in: Yoga  One Comment

DAY 13 – SUN SALUTATIONS

I know I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating, again and again and again….

Short on time and not sure what to practice?  Sun Salutations.

Looking for a way to connect movement and breath?  Sun Salutations.

Want to invite some devotion into your practice, and create a meditation in motion?  Sun Salutations.

Do you need a sequence of movements that provides you with a full practice, including backbends, forward bends, hip openers and inversions?  Sun Salutations.

 

September 2, 2011   Posted in: Yoga  3 Comments

DAY 12 – CHANGING OUR THOUGHTS

One of the most challenging parts of practice (for me, at least) is sitting down for meditation.  It’s easy to breathe and move, breathe and move, breathe and move.  It’s easy to let someone lead you through a practice with music playing in the background.  But it can be really intimidating sometimes to sit down and be with your own thoughts, or to concentrate on one thought, or affirmation/mantra.  We’re so busy, we’re so stressed, we’re so overloaded with outside distractions.

Start monitoring your thoughts, and pay attention (REALLY pay attention) to how many of them are negative.  How often do you come back to the same thought, event or circumstance that makes you feel uneasy or unhappy?  We’ve all got the power to get past it, to let it go because it no longer serves or supports us.  We’ve all got the power…..if we just sit down alone, light a candle, repeat an affirmation, then start to surrender.  Not easy, but definitely possible – and worth it!

Affirmation for meditation:  I go with the flow and feel the joy of life.

September 1, 2011   Posted in: Yoga  2 Comments