Welcome to our spring revive equinox yoga flow!
Whether you are in the northern hemisphere or elsewhere, I hope you feel the vibrant energy of this video anytime you choose to engage with it.
Yoga provides a beautiful way to plant the seeds of growth, energy, and motivation, allowing you to weed out what's not serving you. This practice harnesses the restless energy of spring to help you ride the wave of your intention.
What do you personally want to grow? If you're unsure, let this question live in the back of your mind as you move. Remember, growth also requires space, so let's focus on weeding out distractions to make room for new intentions.
Focus and Visualization Techniques
In this video, I'll guide you through a focus practice where we find the top of our head and the point between our eyebrows, creating a vertical and horizontal line in our mind. This visualization helps to find a center of focus within ourselves. Picture it softly, like a floating blue pearl in your mind.
Afterwards, shake it out, perhaps roll your neck or engage in some light movements around your space to prepare for the session.
Introducing Kali Mudra
Kali Mudra involves interlacing your fingers and extending your index fingers to form a steeple, symbolizing focus and intention. Kali is a creator and destroyer, merging growth with the process of weeding—a balance we are aspiring to achieve. This mudra aids in dharana, or focusing on one thing at a time, promoting powerful singular focus.
While maintaining a soft gaze, draw a tiny figure-eight with your fingers, gently engaging your optic nerves. If dizziness occurs, pause, breathe, and reset. Return to the present moment with warmth in your hands, cupping your eye sockets to engage your vagus nerve, which aides in returning to a safe and social state.
Gross Motor Movements to Generate Energy
As we begin, standing wide, we initiate a full body yawn—a signal of safety to our nervous system. Yawning from side to side, stretching, and bending generates energy. Movements like these, aligning with breath, can produce a refreshing shift in how our energy flows.
Engage in larger motor movements with wide squats and C-shaped side bends, promoting a solid foundation through your feet. Allow yawns to happen naturally—these are positive expressions of our nervous state turning secure.
Flowing into Warrior Series
Transition between bending and straightening, leaning forward and back to engage core muscles. Imagine grounding yourself, feeling supported by the earth beneath. Explore Warrior poses, building strength and flexibility with purposeful, flowing movements.
Try rhythmic arm motions as you shift weight, visualizing branches and roots, balancing relaxation with active focus.
Finding Balance with Tree Pose
Tree pose reflects your growth and determination. As you find and hold your balance, allow your branches—arms—to grow in response to the earth’s rootedness and the grace inherent in your movements. Let any notion of energy or tension within yourself guide you.
Settling into Rest and Reflection
As we slow down, we invite you to ground into a resting child’s pose. Picture yourself as a seed, bathed in potential, nourished by the earth. Feel the transformative energy that surrounds you. This symbolizes returning to a state of calm, foundational rest that grounds our practice.
Reflect on elements like water, warmth, and air—aiding circulation and generating prana, or life force. Visualize prana filling a metaphorical deep blue reservoir, expansive and reflective as breath deposits energy.
Closing with Peace
Embrace the practice with gratitude, calling for peace through an Om Shanti chant. Let your awareness settle within, jotting down any emerging reflections on how you feel post-practice.
Consider the peace and insight you've cultivated here, the daily stresses and desires for self-care that can shape participation in communities like The Compassion Club. Inside, members, who are HSP like you, have found self-love and connection as central to their lives.
Thank you for joining this flow and remember to carry its benefits with you throughout your day and week.
Stop Walking On Eggshells!
Gentle yoga to release your stress and shift your mindset about struggle.
If you get your buttons pushed often by other people's issues, you may be hypervigilant. You might feel it in your body as clenching, tension, or chronic pain.
You'll become more grounded in awareness of your body.
