YOGA IN PRACTICE Season 4
#401 - Love Yourself as You Are
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According to Voltaire, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” Often we do not strive for the good life or the good body or experience but the perfect one, ruining our chances of satisfaction. The practice of yoga can open a path of self-care and awareness, help us learn to appreciate the good in ourselves and let go of striving for perfection. In this episode we embrace who we are right now.
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According to Voltaire, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” The practice of yoga can open a path of self-care, help us appreciate the good in ourselves and let go of striving for perfection. In this episode we embrace who we are right now.
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In this episode we let go of striving for perfection and embrace who we are right now.
#402 - How to Get Going
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Some days we feel stuck or bored, as if we are simply muddling through life. A word to describe this feeling is languishing. To shift out of our daily ruts we need motivation. A good way to start is to reflect on what matters to you most, provides you with a sense of well-being and grounds your energy, then go do that. This episode shows us how to challenge ourselves while practicing chair yoga.
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Shifting out of our daily ruts requires motivation. Start by reflecting on what matters to you most, provides you with a sense of well-being and grounds your energy, then go do that. This episode challenges us while we practice chair yoga.
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Making change requires motivation. This episode challenges us while practicing chair yoga.
#403 - It’s Not What You Do, but How You Do It
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We all have unique gifts and talents as expressed through our lifelong accomplishments. These gifts are meant to bring joy, satisfaction, and meaning into our lives and the lives of those around us. It’s not about what you do in life but how you do it. It’s about how much passion, love, and care you put into what you do that truly matters. Consider this as we begin a gentle yoga practice today.
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We all have unique gifts and talents. It’s not about what you do in life but how you do it. It’s about how much passion, love, and care you put into what you do that truly matters. Consider this as we begin a gentle yoga practice today.
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It’s not about what you do in life but how you do it. Consider this in a gentle yoga practice.
#404 - The Delight of Freedom
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How many of us have felt tightness in our neck and shoulders because we spend too much time looking down at devices or slumped over at a desk? In time, that forward action of our head and shoulders can lead to all sorts of discomfort and even injury if we do not address it. Good alignment is good therapy for injury, and when we feel more freedom in our body we are able to enjoy our life a bit more.
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How many of us have felt tightness in our neck and shoulders because we spend too much time looking down at devices or slumped over a desk? Good alignment is good therapy. When we feel more freedom in our body we can enjoy life a bit more.
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Good alignment is good therapy. More freedom in our body helps us enjoy life a bit more.
#405: Seeking Balance
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We all get into habits, good and bad ones, like a dog that runs back and forth alongside a fence creating a groove. In Sanskrit, these patterns are called samaskaras, and they become more entrenched the longer we continue them. To cultivate better habits we have to bring awareness to what is no longer serving us and then decide to make a change. Slowing down and being aware is a place to begin.
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We all get into habits, good and bad ones, like a dog that runs back and forth alongside a fence. To cultivate better habits we have to become aware of what is no longer serving us and decide to make a change. Slowing down is a way to begin.
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In today’s class we will cultivate better habits by slowing down and practicing balancing.
#406 - Interdependence
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The profound truth is that you cannot be human on your own. You are human through the relationships and connections that you make. This is the African concept of Ubuntu, whereby a person is a person through other people. We are made for interdependence. I need you in order to be me. Our class today will remember this deeper truth by moving from the periphery into the core using twists and backbends.
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The profound truth is that you cannot be human on your own. We are made for interdependence. I need you in order to be me. Our class today will remember this deeper truth by moving from the periphery into the core using twists and backbends.
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Our class today will move from the periphery into the core using twists and backbends.
#407 - Reset Your Emotional Circuit Breaker
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Our psyches were not developed to respond to everything that is coming at us right now. Being so connected these days to the world’s news is overloading our emotional circuit breakers. Take a few deep breaths and ask yourself: What is mine to do and not to do today? What is mine to say and not to say today? What is mine to care about and not to care about today? Remember that someone will always care.
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Our emotional circuit breakers are overloaded. Ask yourself: What is mine to do and not to do today? What is mine to say and not to say today? What is mine to care about and not to care about today? Remembering someone will always care.
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Reset your emotional circuit breakers. Ask yourself, what is mine to do and not to do today?
#408 - Savoring the Gifts
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To savor something is the act of stepping outside of an experience to assess and appreciate it. Savoring intensifies the positive emotions that come with doing something you love. To relish today’s practice to its utmost, stay as present in the moment as possible, and feel, and even taste, the natural gratitude that arises by simply appreciating the gifts of this life you have been given.
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Savoring intensifies the positive emotions that come with doing things you love. To relish today’s practice to its utmost, stay as present in the moment as possible and feel the gratitude that arises by appreciating this life you have been given.
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To relish today’s practice to its utmost, stay as present in the moment as possible.
#409 - Refining and Evolving
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There is a saying, “Yoga makes the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant.” Yoga, like life, is a process of refining and evolving. The small changes that we commit to each day shift our mind, our vision, our health. One of my favorite mantras is, “I like myself when I try.” When you are on your mat you have ample opportunity to try the possible and to make the easy elegant.
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Small changes that we commit to each day shift our mind, our vision, our health. One of my favorite mantras is, “I like myself when I try.” When you are on your mat you have ample opportunity to try the possible and to make the easy elegant.
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Small changes can shift our vision and health. Say to yourself, “I like myself when I try.”
#410 - A Complicated Journey
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Being human can be a messy and complicated journey. It is our light that makes our shadows, our sorrows that give meaning to our joys, making us who we are. What if yoga as a practice of living fully is inviting us to engage the messiness of our life and not to run from it? Are we able to want the life we are currently living right now? Consider this idea as we move though our practice together.
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What if yoga as a practice of living fully is inviting us to engage the messiness of our life and not to run from it? Are we able to want the life we are currently living right now? Consider this idea as we move though our practice together.
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Being human is complicated. Are we able to want the life we are currently living right now?
#411 - Tend to the Roots
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During the recent upheavals of life I have found it comforting to engage in the nourishing activities of daily life. The basics have kept me grounded - taking walks outside, nestling into a sofa to read or watch a movie, cooking meals, playing with my grandchildren. Tending to the roots of daily life has created an inner resiliency that helps me face future uncertainties. Let’s grow some roots today.
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During the recent upheavals of life I have found it comforting to engage in the nourishing activities of daily life. Tending to the roots has created an inner resiliency that helps me face future uncertainties. Let’s grow some roots today.
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Tending to the roots helps us face future uncertainties. Let’s grow some roots today.
#412 - Strengthening the Back
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One of the most common physical issues people deal with in modern life is lower back pain caused from too much sitting. While sitting, we often collapse our front body and shoulders, over-extending the neck and weakening our back muscles. In today’s class we will work on strengthening the back muscles for better posture. When you enjoy good posture a natural self-assurance arises.
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One of the most common physical issues people deal with today is lower back pain caused by too much sitting. In today’s class we will work on strengthening the back for better posture. When you enjoy good posture a natural self-assurance arises.
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In today’s class we will work on strengthening the back for better posture and self-assurance.
#413 - Breath and Relaxation
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77 percent of Americans report physical symptoms related to stress and anxiety. To calm the noise in our minds we will ease into a practice that enhances the parasympathetic nervous system, aiding our sleep and digestion instead of fueling the fight or flight response. Today’s class will open our ribcage so we can breathe more deeply. We’ll finish with a guided relaxation called yoga nidra, or yogic sleep.
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77 percent of Americans report physical symptoms related to stress and anxiety. Today we will ease into a practice that opens our ribcage so we can breathe more deeply. We’ll finish with a guided relaxation called yoga nidra, or yogic sleep.
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Today we will ease into a practice that opens our ribcage so we can breathe more deeply.