Radiate Bliss

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• 10 Benefits Of Home Practice: Instant stress relief and more...

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• Yoga Flow: Radiate Bliss

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10 Benefits of a Home Practice

1. You can tailor your practice to fit your mood. If you’re tired, do the restorative practice. If you’re feeling strong, choose a strenuous one.

2. You can practice daily. Even if you’re juggling a hectic schedule and think you don’t have time to practice, take a deep, cleansing breath and think again. Yes, you might not have time to go to class, but you can still roll out your mat at home for 10 minutes. Or 15. Or 30. Your body and mind will thank you.

3. You can set your own personal goals. Maybe it’s a 21-day challenge. Maybe it’s working your way up to a difficult pose. But practicing toward your goal, not a teacher’s, is a great motivator. And once you reach it, you may just realize that you are capable of more than you’d thought.

4. It can provide instant stress relief. If you’re in the middle of a conflict at home or at work, vigorous practice can clear your mind. If you wake up already feeling exhausted by the day in front of you, it can create fortitude.

5. You can be yourself. When you’re at home, you don’t have to worry about striving to please a teacher or impress your fellow students. The only person you are performing for is yourself. Even though we all know yoga is not intended to be competitive, it can be hard to maintain your inner focus when your neighbor in class is opening into a gorgeous backbend that feels totally out of your reach. The truth is, actually achieving that backend is not important. Working with your own backbends, at your own pace, is.

6. There are no distractions. That means you can focus on how your body is feeling and your mind is reacting. Without your teacher’s voice guiding your every move, you can more easily go inside and witness what is happening in your body, emotions, and mind. You’ll feel what your body craves or rebels against, hear your mind’s chatter, and become aware of your current mood. You’ll develop more inner awareness. As you do, you’ll get better at tailoring your practice to meet your needs, and over time, become your own best teacher. As a yoga teacher Mark Whitwell says, “Doing yoga at home is profoundly different from doing it under the direction of someone else in the class. When you’re doing someone else’s yoga, you’re not doing your own yoga. It’s a huge evolutionary step to learn how to practice for yourself.”

8. You can focus on perfecting specific poses. Home practices allow you to work on poses that challenge you for as long as you like—in privacy. Just learned a new pose? Home practice is where you can refine it or make adjustments to help you get where you want.

9. It’s portable. You can take your practice on the road. Rodney Yee, who teaches yoga around the world, has a faithful routine for when he’s on the go. “I’ll start my practice with a template of familiar and satisfying hip openers,” he says. “Then, as my body wakes up, I’ll listen to what is happening inside and decide where to go next. Some days it’s twists and backbends or pranayama and restoratives; other days I’ll go straight to inversions.”

10. It’s free! Going to a class taught by an experienced, hands-on teacher is a wonderful way to learn and perfect your practice, but most of us are on a budget, right?

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The International Mineralogical Association had confirmed it as a new mineral by the time the discovery was announced in a press conference on September 9th. The crystal was discovered by researchers at the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology who used X-ray refraction to find the 10-micron-long crystal.

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🧐 DID YOU KNOW?

In Ayurveda, a disease is known as disharmony (or imbalance of energy flow) between mind, body, and soul. This means that your body, its organs, your mind, and your mental makeup all play a role in diagnosis and treatment. This way it tries to treat the root of the problem rather than the organ or part of the body that is affected factoring in how the medicines will affect the person as a whole.

Yoga Flow- Radiate Bliss

By combining stretches, core activation, and deep breathing, this sequence will release tension so you start your day feeling refreshed and radiate positive energy!

AS YOU PRACTICE Allow yourself to pause and explore these heart- and hip-opening stretches as you build-up to the peak pose, an exciting variation of Ardha Chandrasana (Half Moon Pose). This will help connect you to your core and root you down so you can expand outward with stability and strength. Meanwhile, breathe deeply throughout the sequence to further awaken your sense of vitality and inner purpose.

1. Tri Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana (ThreeLegged Downward-Facing Dog Pose) Begin with hands shoulder-width apart and feet hip-width apart. Actively reach your heels down as you lift your sitting bones up and elongate the spine. On a deep inhale, lift your right leg. Keep your shoulders squared.

2. Anjaneyasana (Low Lunge) Step your right foot forward and place your back knee down behind your hips. Place your hands onto your front knee, and sink your hips, drawing your belly away from your front thigh and pressing your shoulders back. Gently rock forward and back.

3. Ardha Ustrasana (Half Camel Pose) Turn to your left, pivoting your back shin. Place your left hand alongside your sacrum and your right hand on your front knee. Engage your core to lift your sternum, and elongate the inseam of your right leg.

4. Ardha Hanumanasana (Half Monkey God Pose) Turn toward your front leg, and straighten it. Lengthen your spine over your leg, with your fingertips on the floor. Bend your elbows (not your neck), and hinge from the hips to fold deeper. Keep your hips square.

5. Cat-Cow Pose Bring your right knee back in line with the left, coming to all fours. Inhale and lift your sternum, sitting bones, and chin. Exhale and tuck your chin, round your spine, and tuck your sitting bones. Breathe, and explore your fullest range of motion.

6. Tabletop, variation Extend your right arm forward and your left leg back. Keep your hips square to the mat by dialing your outer left hip down and your inner left thigh up. Engage your core, and elongate from fingertips to the sole of your foot. Hug your muscles toward the midline.

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