Happy #YogaMonday!
What happens to you when you practice yoga?
Read what happens to me below.
Category: Yoga Mondays
Happy #YogaMonday: Yoga Summer Reading – Yin, Yang, Yogini by Kathryn Livingston
Happy #YogaMonday and Memorial Day!
Today, I discovered a new yoga memoir to add to my summer reading list. It’s called Yin, Yang, Yogini by Kathryn E. Livingston, an author, blogger, and yoga practitioner. Livingston’s memoir discusses how yoga transformed her life and taught her how to surrender and release the past and fear while living and trusting the present moment. I eager to read her book to learn more about her journey and how she faced the death of her parents, anxiety, breast cancer, and her children growing up and moving out of her home with yoga. Click here to learn more about Livingston and her Liv Write! blog.
Are you reading any yoga-inspired books this summer?
Happy Yoga Monday: The Spirit of Mantra
Happy Yoga Monday!
Mantras have been a part of my yoga practice for the past 10 years. Mantra is a Sanskrit word that means mind protection. It is a sacred word, sound or chant repeated during meditation to promote inner peace and facilitate transformation of your consciousness. Last week, I started Deva Premal & Miten’s 21-Day Mantra Meditation Journey to continue the work I have been doing to strengthen my meditation practice. The 21-Day Mantra Journey started on May 14 and offers a free, daily guided session. Click here to learn more.
Do you use mantras in your meditation and yoga practice?
Happy #YogaMonday: My Favorite Yoga Poses Since 1995
Happy #YogaMonday!
It’s National Women’s Health Week, an annual health celebration I have used to recommit to my wellness commitments over the past decade. Practicing yoga on and off the mat is one of my wellness commitments that started in 1995.
I came to yoga as a 30-year-old runner, Type A legal and finance professional, artist, and writer who needed to release stress, stretch my body, and focus my mind. Child’s pose and downward facing dog were my favorite poses. They still are as I live my life as a 49-year-old (approaching 50 in December) artist, author, creativity coach, digital communications professional, and yoga teacher.
Side twists and savasana (final relaxation) pose also became some of my favorites during my yoga teacher training at Flow Yoga Center in 2005.
When you started practicing yoga, what were your favorite poses?
What are your favorite poses now?
Happy #YogaMonday: Creating Yoga Vision Boards
Happy #YogaMonday!
Today’s podcast discusses the power of yoga vision boards in my home yoga practice. Click on the link to listen: http://soundcloud.com/ananda-leeke/listen-to-ananda-leekes-13.
Have you ever created a yoga vision board?
Happy Yoga Monday: The Focus of My Spring Yoga Practice
Happy Yoga Monday!
For the past two weeks, I’ve been using Oprah & Deepak’s Finding Your Flow 21-Day Meditation Experience. Click here to join the Meditation Experience (it’s free)! Thus far, it has helped me develop a better understanding of my third chakra which governs the solar plexus, digestion, power, courage, and determination. Yesterday, I made a Spring collage series I plan to use to stay focused on my third chakra and yoga practice (see photo above).
What are you using to help focus your yoga practice this spring?
Happy #YogaMonday: Yoga Life Philosophy and Lifestyle
Happy #YogaMonday!
Last week I started Oprah & Deepak’s Finding Your Flow 21-Day Meditation Experience. I am using the 21-Day Meditation Experience to deepen my home yoga and meditation practice. So far, it has helped me connect with my seven chakra energy centers and the flow of my Shakti energy (also known as prana, chi or life force) in my body, mind, spirit, heart, and breath. Click here to join the Meditation Experience (it’s free)!
The first seven days of the Finding Your Flow Meditation Experience introduced the foundation of each chakra with powerful affirmations. I used them to as guides for my daily yoga practice. See them below.
Day 1 – Root Chakra
Day 2 – Sacral Chakra
Day 3 – Solar Plexus Chakra
Day 4 – Heart Chakra
Day 5 – Throat Chakra
Day 6 – Third Eye Chakra
Day 7 – Crown Chakra
Today I had an opportunity to share what I discovered about myself through the meditation experience during my Spring coaching session with my life coach and yoga teacher, Yael Flusberg.
One of the things I appreciate and enjoy about Yael’s coaching approach and practice is that she supports her clients in cultivating a holistic, healthy, and balanced lifestyle. It is based on yoga as a life philosophy and lifestyle. Yoga is a Sanskirt word that means union of your spirit, heart, mind, body, and life. I call Yael’s coaching approach and practice the “Yael Flusberg Method” which invites you to define, explore, and integrate healthy attitudes, habits, and self-care practices into your life (business, career, creativity, digital experiences, finances, health, home, leisure, relationships, and volunteer service).
What is your yoga life philosophy?
Do you maintain a yoga lifestyle? How so?
Happy Yoga Monday: My 21 Day Spring Yoga & Meditation Practice
Happy Yoga Monday!
Today I started my morning yoga practice with Oprah & Deepak’s Finding Your Flow 21-Day Meditation Experience. I am using the 21-Day Meditation Experience to deepen my home yoga and meditation practice. It will help me connect with the flow of my Shakti energy (also known as prana, chi or life force) in my body, mind, spirit, heart, and breath. Click here to join the Meditation Experience (it’s free)!
The theme for Day #1 of the Meditation Experience is “Finding Security.” While standing in the Mountain or Tadasana pose, I used today’s affirmation as a mantra: “My security and peace are within.” It stayed with me all day!
What is the focus of your Spring yoga and meditation practice?
Happy #YogaMonday: Practicing Yoga with Gratitude
Happy #YogaMonday!
Today’s podcast discusses yoga with gratitude. It also offers tips on how to practice yoga with gratitude. Click on the link to listen.
http://soundcloud.com/ananda-leeke/listen-to-yoga-teacher
How are you practicing yoga with gratitude?
Happy Yoga Monday: Today’s Yoga Wisdom
Happy Yoga Monday!
Check out today’s yoga wisdom. I share it with my yoga clients during each session.
OM Enjoy OM!
Ananda Leeke 