Welcome to July!
Our dear friend and fellow yoga teacher Lia Hall is heading west to Seattle. She will be sharing thoughts on yoga love from the west coast once she is settled in. Sending her love + prana.
Samskara or habitual patterns was our June focus. We discussed a seven step process that can help bring awareness to any patterns that you would like to shift in your life or simply bring awareness to. You may explore these steps in this Yoga Journal article by Bo Forbes 'Stuck in a Rut?'
Bo Forbes is a yoga teacher + psychologist. She makes this important point on change: "Intellectual insight that does not travel beyond the mind seldom translates into change. Because the body houses our emotional intelligence, it might not assimilate the insight. Yoga acts through the medium of the body, taking vidya (awareness)to even deeper levels."
This month we practice : Meditation
Dhyana* - is the Sanskrit word for meditation or mental concentration in thought/vision/knowledge
We will practice sitting meditation for 10-15 minutes at the end of asana practice this month.
- Shamatha (Mindfulness)
- Loving Kindness
- Mantra
