Dear Yogis and Yoginis,
I hope this newsletter finds you well and that you are discovering good solutions to coping with such dreary rain! If you are in doubt, get on all fours and try a couple of cat and cow poses. Feel free to add sound effects, like "loud mooing for weather dissatisfaction"!
Over the next month, I will be training to become a teacher of Restorative Yoga with the wonderful Judith Lasater. If all of this sounds new to you, I highly recommend looking up Judith and checking out her book Relax and Renew. It's filled with delicious poses to recharge both mind and body. I look forward to introducing more restorative techniques to my teaching and to sharing some of these wonderful tools with you once classes resume in the spring.
Meanwhile, this month come to class to open up the heart and your lungs in preparation for the season of flowers and bees! In the next couple of weeks, I will be focusing on poses that help build the support of the side of the body while making space for the lungs and the chest.
One of my favorite poses to work towards with this in mind is Ardha Chandrasana, Half Moon pose. In Ardha Chandrasana we build a strong connection to the ground and then encourage the rest of the body to open and expand above our standing leg. It's a wonderful pose that works our balance, strength, concentration and patience! We will work towards this standing practice by preparing the side of the body and connecting with intention and purpose to the ground, so that our Half Moon may become increasingly filled with ease and light.
Sending you my best wishes,
Beatrice
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