Yin Yoga & Meditation | Week 4 - Connection and Integration

"We can always begin again. No matter what happens, no matter how long it's been, no matter how far from our aspirations we may have strayed, we can always begin again." ~ Sharon Salzberg

THE ART OF LETTING GO 

What are the benefits of Yin Yoga & Meditation? 

• Boost immunity as you unblock energy to increase vitality and health.  
• Release tension to experience calm and relaxation.
• Increase your capacity and flexibility on the physical, mental and emotional levels.
• Create the habit of mindfulness.
• Build resilience; with every breath, we can begin again.
• Cultivate a sense of spaciousness in your heart, body, mind and soul.

The Three Tattvas of Yin Yoga Practice:

A tattva is the reality of a thing, or its category or principal nature. 

1. Come into the pose to an appropriate depth ("playing our edges").
2. Resolve to remain still.
3. Hold the pose for a time.

               --Sarah Powers

Remembering these three principles as you practice will simplify everything. 

Mindfulness Meditation 

seated, standing, walking, the practice of your choice 5 minutes

June 22

Supported legs up the wall

5 minutes

"Acceptance looks like a passive state, 

but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world.

That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness."

~Eckhart Tolle

June 23

Supported Butterfly

2-5 minutes

To Come Home to Yourself  

"May all that is unforgiven in you,
Be released.

May your fears yield
Their deepest tranquillities.

May all that is unlived in you,
Blossom into a future,
Graced with love."

John O'Donohue

June 24

Supported eagle arms or embracing wings

2-5 minutes for each side

“Always, the things we hold, the things we water in place, the small moments we open — all are quiet steps that can lead us to some view of eternity. Now I think the magnitude of love, peace, wisdom, and, truth can be known like this. For they are there all along, waiting to be discovered — all vast planes of being like sky, ocean, and mountains, waiting to be entered moment by moment. Clearly by living at the pace of what is real, we can access the vitalities that matter. And though everything conspires to move us ahead of this pace — pain, fear, loss, doubt, anxiety, ambition — we can recover the pace of creation by slowing to where all things begin. 

For entering into relationship with these small and simple things opens the birds call. By slowing down, the wind makes an old tree whisper, and the light makes a broken piece of glass glisten with truth, and a drop of rain somehow makes the eye of a fly as soft as someone tired of running.” 

~ Mark Nepo

June 25

Bananasana 

2-5 minutes for each side

"Some 40 years ago, Ram Dass shouted, Be here Now. Entering the moment is the most direct way we have of doing this. How? By entering each particular before us. How? By slowing our thinking and feeling and seeing and hearing to the pace of creation. How? By preserving and following the breath that joins us to the things around us. Here we are brought into harmony with everything. Such realness opens us to the greater motion of all that we are always a part of."

~ Mark Nepo

June 26

Supported dangling pose

1-3 minutes

"We have little control over our time on earth, other than the degree to which we choose to root ourselves  and stand tall before the wind and rain and sun. As human beings, this translates to being present and staying open. These are the efforts that cause us to ripen. These are the silences which if entered, will sing. Though we can ride currents like a falcon, or stir up everything while tranforming nothing like a storm, we are touched the deepest when we can turn ourselves over to life, like a song to be sung or something planted waiting to grow."

~ Mark Nepo

Belly facing shavasana 

5 minutes

"How we practice is much more important than what we practice. Yoga was never a competitive sport: it is an inward practice designed to build awareness, non-attachment, equanimity, and contentment. We do not use the body to get into the pose, we use the pose to get into the body."

~ Bernie Clark

The art of letting go is a personal ongoing practice for life. With every exhale, we release, let go and create space to live our lives grounded with creativity, will, power, fierce compassion, tranquility, alertness , balance, intuition, connection and awareness. We continually let go through the practice of acceptance of this moment and recognize what is real. Moment to moment day by day. We let go of old mindsets and patterns that no longer serve us or humanity. We let go through integrating all the parts of ourselves, our memories, allowing these facets to participate consciously and powerfully in our ongoing unique and beautiful existence on earth.  We let go of how things used to be by embracing the life before us. How? By inhabiting the breath within us and stepping into the power of now.  We let go as we stay with the ongoing fluid and changing nature of our experience, individual and collective.

Thank you for sharing part of your journey with me here and for allowing the space for me to do the same. It has been an honor and a privilege.

May you be happy, safe, healthy and live with ease,

Tehroma