Archive for ‘Yoga Poses’
Wind Salutation
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Wind Salutation from Yoga on the Beach -
In Yoga class we often honor the Sun, and Moon with a salutation and one day while the wind was blowing 15-20 mph I was inspired to honor the wind with a salutation. Please enjoy it for your personal practice or in teaching others.
In this salutation to the wind your body becomes a weathervane and your breath the wind. Each breath shifts the direction of the weathervane playfully tipping, twirling, aligning. Enjoy!
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Sivasana – Sweet Surrender
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
It was another beautiful morning at Yoga on the Beach today.
Look at how sweetly the practice of Sivasana carried all sentient beings into surrender. Even “Old Man”, our yoga dog, joined us in Sivasana.
Tomorrow is Yoga Rhythms with Don. Come on down and flow through the waves of ocean and sacred music with us. It is so much fun!
Namaste, Nancy
Tags: sivasana, surrender, yoga
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Alternative Sun Salutation ~ "The Movie"
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Well you have inspired us again. Thank you to our students who wanted more visual, and instruction, as well as to Christine for taking the video. Here I am on a gray Sept morning, enjoying the sound of the ocean playing with shells along the beach, doing this alternative sun salutation. This is considered one side, repeat again starting with the left foot stepping back for the completion of one round. Enjoy the strength, balance and breath of this series honoring the power of the sun. Namaste!
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Alternative Sun Salutation
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
With the up coming Global Mala project I was inspired by some students to come up with a version of sun salutation that does not incur stress on the wrists and shoulders. So here it is, a version of sun salutation that opens up the possibility for more of you to participate, and enjoy the practice.
We hope to see you on Sept 19th at 8:00 am, as we share this special day and raise funds and consciousness for Peace. Remember if you can’t make it that day, you can still share in the practice. Start doing a few sun salutations a day, track them on your own, and when you get to 108 celebrate with us! If you’d like to donate with us to the Carter Center for Peace contact Nancy at nancy@yogaonbeach.com.
Namaste and happy salutations!
Nancy’s Alternative Sun Salutation:
Begin in Mountain
Inhale arms over head (backbend if appropriate) mountain
Exhale forward bend
Inhale step back with right foot into high lunge
Exhale lift torso into jack knife arms extended (head and shoulders at hip height)
Inhale into Warrior I
Exhale step forward into Mountain
Inhale Warrior I with right foot forward, left foot back
Exhale step left foot forward into forward bend
Inhale Mountain arms overhead (backbend if appropriate)
Exhale Mountain hands at heart center.
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A Yoga Visitor
Monday, July 20th, 2009
This morning as I was teaching class, seated in a rotation, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. I’m used to seeing birds fly by, hear the sound of the ocean, and have various forms of human life pass by but this morning my eye caught something very different. I quickly focused in and realized it was a rabbit. Oh to the power of our animal kingdom showing up in yoga.
The class was headed in the direction of relieving tension in the spine, and here was rabbit to remind us of just that. If you have not explored this pose in awhile here is a link to remind you of the pose, its benefits and counterposes. Namaste to the Hare.
Tags: Beach, Hare pose, yoga
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