Luna's Blog
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Eka Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana
26 Oct 2019Eka Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana | Eka Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana (One-Legged Down Dog) and a bit about modern yoga history.🎈Did you know that this asana is an American invention?🎈Based on the foundation of the more traditional Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog.🎈Downward Facing Dog is one of those…
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Chanting
29 Aug 2019Chanting | “Chanting isn’t about music at all.❤️It’s about engaging in a practice designed to bring you more fully into yourself.💙What’s being chanted is what’s called in India the ‘divine names.’💜We’re calling out to our own true selves, our own inner nature… calling out to that place inside of us…
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Tension
26 Jul 2019Tension| Tension is not rigidity.💛In the body and mind we have necessary and unnecessary tension.💛Every asana should be held with the right amount of tension. 💛This takes practice…When in the asana scan your body to find where you need to add tension - by elongating the spine, straightening the knees,…
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Urdva Dhanurasana
14 Jul 2019Urdva Dhanurasana | We LOVE this adjustment in Urdva Dhanurasana.🎡This adjustment makes the asana possible for students with stiff shoulders.🎡It’s also wonderful for flexible students since it’s elongating the entire spine.🎡The lower back, which tends to take most of the bending action in deep backbends, now gets a relief as… -
Energy
02 Jul 2019Energy | Energy does not die, it transforms.♻️A chaotic state is part of any change.♻️Any shift of energy must transform through chaos in order to reach structure once again.♻️What might feel or seem like chaos might just be a change in form - a metamorphosis.♻️In this transition we tend to…