Enjoy the last week of 2019 Mindful Yoga with a Sumer Solstice Practice.

Yoga, including the Ayurvedic approach to wellness and inner balance, gives us an opportunity to align with the Summer yang season and balance the Christmas rush. Summer energy is light, warm, high vibration, often we need to balance our fire element and pitta dosha with cool and calm.

The  ‘standing of the sun’ – a great turning point in the sun at the height of its powers and the earth’s yearly cycle, a time to Honour the Sun and Welcome Nature, a time to take a moment to look back at our own unique journey – what can we let go of for the year/ no longer gladdens our heart, which seeds have germinated/what can we nuture, develop, take with us through to the future – what lights our inner sun. A yoga practice for the summer solstice, focuses on balancing sunlight and shadow, light and dark within ourselves, worshipping the sun.

 

Our inner true self, our feelings our inner plants and flowers, sensing our connection to nature, allowing yoga to reveal our true essence.

Ending with a cooling simple Savasana /relaxation – being aware of the body, then breath and mind, grounding, open to the light, inhaling at the heart , exhaling at the belly, ‘resting in the abiding stillness and silence of your own Being’.