kirstengumraw:

Perfect angel overlook, watching over Machu Picchu

anacostiayogi:

Don’t know who this is but l love the pose!

18-15n-77-30w:

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myyogaon:

Four-Limbed Staff Pose, Chatturanga Dandasana

How-To:
1. Perform Adho Mukha Svanasana, then Plank Pose. Firm your shoulder blades against your back ribs and press your tailbone toward your pubis.

2. With an exhalation slowly lower your torso and legs to a few inches above and parallel to the floor. There’s a tendency in this pose for the lower back to sway toward the floor and the tailbone to poke up toward the ceiling. Throughout your stay in this position, keep the tailbone firmly in place and the legs very active and turned slightly inward. Draw the pubis toward the navel.

3. Keep the space between the shoulder blades broad. Don’t let the elbows splay out to the sides; hold them in by the sides of the torso and push them back toward the heels. Press the bases of the index fingers firmly to the floor. Lift the top of the sternum and your head to look forward.

4. Chaturanga Dandasana is one of the positions in the Sun Salutation sequence. You can also practice this pose individually for anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds. Release with an exhalation. Either lay yourself lightly down onto the floor or push strongly back to Adho Mukha Svanasana, lifting through the top thighs and the tailbone.

Benefits:
This pose will strengthen your shoulders, arms, and wrists. It also causes you to engage your abdominal muscles and will strengthen your core. This pose will invigorate you, and fill you with power and confidence as you move through your vinyasa.

(see previous “healing through yoga” entries here!)

thesumofmypartss

wwwashleyalbrand:

Melt your heart.
It took me many years to create this shape with my outer body. I practiced years & years consistently & gently to allow this shape to evolve. The greatest & most rewarding part of this asana is not what it looks like but how it feels. I don’t mean how if feels while doing it either, I mean how I feel now that I have softened my heart enough to do it. Since I don’t love to blog I will make this brief. If you are on the path of the flying yogi & are working towards creating these gravity defying poses, consider starting a conversation with your heart. A seated posture works best, with your eyes closed. Breathe gently into your heart & place one hand on your heart checking in. How can you soften your ideas about who you are now because of who you have been? How can you relax your belief system & soften into new ways of feeling & seeing? Can you trust this moment? You are being supported by the mother, relax & surrender to what the universe is showing you right now. When u are upside down, physically relax or melt your heart down towards the earth. Towards our planets mother. Soften. She is holding you, carrying you. Surrender to the sensations & breathe deeply as you offer your heart to the mother.
Om namah shivaya
Love
Ash

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Bryant Terry’s 5 Thoughts That Will Change the Way You Eat
By Bryant Terry, oprah.com

The vegetable-loving chef—look for his new book, The Inspired Vegan, this month—talks about grow­ing up in Mem­phis, his mean col­lard greens, and the perks of med­i­ta­tion.
1. Your val­ues should drive what you…

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