🔥Open for power practices to get you fired up | | | | | | Inner Fire: Yoga to Ignite Your Flame | | | Are you ready to feel passionate about your life, right now? If you’ve been feeling lethargic or in a rut, here are three ways yoga helps you stoke your inner fire. 1. Improve Your Digestion: Yoga and pranayama techniques can literally stimulate your internal organs, which helps your digestive system operate at ideal capacity. 2. Boost Your Mood: A high-energy yoga practice releases endorphins, which are the “feel-good” hormones that give you a natural buzz. 3. Build Your Confidence: Yoga can help by stoking the fire in your belly or “tapas” with dynamic classes that boost your healthy ego. This week's classes are powerful practices that energize you and leave you feeling fired up and ready to conquer the world. If you've been bogged down, feeling dull, or uninspired, this week's classes will reconnect you with your inner flame. | | | | | | | Announcing the Winners of our Free 1-Year Memberships | | | | | Big thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate our 16th birthday! Here are the lucky winners from the giveaway: 1) Rachael 2) Judy 3) Jennifer 4) Sarah-Jane 5) Sara 6) Debbie 7) Lorna 8) Tammy 9) James 10) Val 11) Michael 12) Christina 13) Beverly 14) Claudette 15) Sharon 16) Heather | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | YOGA TO IGNITE YOUR FLAME! | | |
| | | | | | | FEATURED POSE: HALFWAY LIFT | | | Halfway Lift (Ardha Uttanasana) This therapeutic posture will stretch your hamstrings, tone your upper back, and rejuvenate and lengthen your entire spine. Benefits: -Helps maintain healthy curvature of your spine -Lengthens spinal muscles, hamstrings, and calf muscles -Strengthens back, core, and thigh muscles -Helps prepare your body for deeper forward folding postures Modifications: -Place your hands on two blocks positioned in front of your feet to allow for more length. Press down slightly into the blocks as you lift your chest and lengthen your spine Chakras: This posture activates the Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana), which governs intimacy and creativity, as well as the Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura), which governs confidence level and personal power. Practicing this pose can help one feel more connected and confident, and also help tame the ego. | | | | | | | | | | | | | THANK YOU from the bottom of our ♡ for being a YogaDownload member and for your continued support!! | | | | | | #GoYourOmWay #NamasteAtHome | | | | | | |