https://www.breathemovegrow.ca/blog daily 0.75 2020-09-08 https://www.breathemovegrow.ca/blog/aging-well-3-ways-yoga-keeps-your-body-ready-for-lifes-adventures monthly 0.5 2020-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1599534244572-TBB0NCOT8HSH8JS629CD/woman+holding+a+sparker+candle Blog - Aging Well With Yoga: 3 Ways Yoga Keeps Your Body Ready for Life’s Adventures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1599536328328-0KX7WZO1H8XFJ0SMAO4I/Sanctuary-28.jpg Blog - Aging Well With Yoga: 3 Ways Yoga Keeps Your Body Ready for Life’s Adventures - Strengthening Pose Tips To keep your body primed for those demands of daily chores and fun adventures you want to keep your body constantly challenged on a moderate level. It’s better to build a little every day, than be a weekend warrior and exhaust your body. Poses to try for full body Strengthening: Downdog, Warrior 2 and Plank help you maintain and build balanced full body strength. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1599536441281-L3VJBKF0J1RZA920GZ2A/DSC02340%2B-%2BCopy%2B%25283%2529.jpg Blog - Aging Well With Yoga: 3 Ways Yoga Keeps Your Body Ready for Life’s Adventures - Flexibility Pose Tips When stretching keep your stretching range of motion at about 70% of your full range. Stretch too far, too fast and you will lose all your progress! Your body needs to feel safe while stretching to allow you to increase your flexibility over time. Poses to Try for Flexibility: Lunges, Side Bends and Eagle Arms all help us improve and maintain the flexibility we use in daily life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1599536999245-0RG6VL963BY4Y5EH001U/Tree%2BPose Blog - Aging Well With Yoga: 3 Ways Yoga Keeps Your Body Ready for Life’s Adventures - Balancing Poses Tips To build safety and security in your balance practice start with a wall or a chair close by. Go slow and let your nervous system learn that you are okay to be calm and confident in balance. As your confidence grows you can add in movement, eye gaze challenges, and binds to keep the challenge bar moving forward! Poses for Balance Improvement: Warrior Three and its variations of airplane and spiral give you lots of arm movement to play with as your confidence grows. Tree pose is an excellent balance pose to start with using a chair or wall for security. https://www.breathemovegrow.ca/blog/how-to-get-started-with-mindfulness-photography monthly 0.5 2020-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1594353017025-ENULFRWLH1CROJ3MJERA/woman+practicing+mindfulness+photography+on+a+beach Blog - Mindful Photography: Improving your Mental Health with a Camera Struggling with meditation? Try mindful photography to gain multiple health benefits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1594427487157-U3G9EDQEQ9BIL3RLNLP2/image-asset.png Blog - Mindful Photography: Improving your Mental Health with a Camera Health Benefits from Practicing Mindfulness Photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1594428107247-MUEEX9L6CO8NFFMYRXNK/Untitled.jpg Blog - Mindful Photography: Improving your Mental Health with a Camera - What details do you see? Is there texture? Does the colour change shades? Is there a background that makes the colour pop? Does the background make the colour fade? Change your position and take the same photo from a different angle or with a different light. How did this change your photo? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1594428606525-BP2T3WL18LWFC2OSUCS7/Photo+tip+%232+Get+Closer Blog - Mindful Photography: Improving your Mental Health with a Camera - How does the picture change when you include only the bottom of the item? How does the picture change when you include only the top? What happens when you fill the whole frame with the subject? Reflect on the different emotions the same subject can portray when photographed from various distances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1594429000344-XENH14BDTI8R7L5D02Z4/Photo+Tip+%233+Add+Whitespace Blog - Mindful Photography: Improving your Mental Health with a Camera - Surround a subject with open space of one kind of texture or colour . Play with altering the amount of white space. A lot, a little... Try the same subject with different white space if the subject can be moved. Be creative! 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Unfortunately, so are shin splits, tights hips and aching calf muscles. This is how yoga can help you relieve the pain…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1589862474453-AS814CIVS5MINUQQKVXT/Woman+in+yoga+Lunge+in+an+outdoor+park. Blog - Summer Fitness Switch Up: 3 Yoga Poses to Help You Hurt Less - Crescent Moon Lunge Sanskrit Name: Anjaneyasana If you are running, cycling or doing a lot of neighbourhood strolling on the pavement Crescent Moon will be your new best friend. This pose helps opens the hips, lengthen your side body, stretches your quads, increases balance and warms up the shoulders! Try a few lunges in the morning as a slow wake up to your day before running off to capture all those feel-good summer vibes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1589863078363-U76SE80IRKSCSV3UW01P/Man+gardening+in+a+squat+yoga+pose Blog - Summer Fitness Switch Up: 3 Yoga Poses to Help You Hurt Less - Yoga Squat Sanskrit Name: Malasana Have you ever tried to garden with not allowing yourself to squat? It’s pretty hard! Getting low to the ground is a requirement when weeding and sitting in the dirt on your butt doesn’t always work out that well. To keep your lower body strong and stable for your food and flower growing adventures, try practicing this yoga pose a few times a week. Your leg, butt, low back and core will thank you! Next time you’re squatting in your garden try bringing your yoga outdoors. Close your eyes, feel the sensations in the air and appreciate the sounds and smells of the summer season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1589863372147-7W5URLC9JL4O93JB4H7O/Older+Asian+woman+in+a+yoga+tree+pose Blog - Summer Fitness Switch Up: 3 Yoga Poses to Help You Hurt Less - Tree Pose Sanskrit Name: Vrksasana More hiking brings new and different terrains to venture over. Large rocks, clumps of field grass, and the mini sand dunes that line our beautiful South Saskatchewan River can all wreak havoc with our balance. Yesterday I almost tumbled into the still cold May river when the sand gave way beneath my foot. I credit my tree and warrior three yoga poses for my fast reaction in recovering my balance. Where do you find your balanced challenges in summer? Tonight when you are cooking dinner, waiting for that pot of water to boil, add a little balancing to your recipe! Move away from the hot stove and find balance in tree pose for three breath cycles. Giving your body the opportunity to challenge it’s balance on a regular basis will help you become more balanced in those unexpected situations that spring up on us throughout the summer days. https://www.breathemovegrow.ca/blog/3tipsforembracingyouronlineyogaclass monthly 0.5 2020-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6864e1752779163a062b9e/1588400120171-6JR04POLWB1QNB8FBGFI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Tips for Embracing Live Online Yoga Classes - Adapting to online yoga classes during this time of physical distancing may not be your top priority right now. This doesn't mean changing to online fitness is easy. If you’re finding moving your yoga practice into your home is difficult, you are not alone. Has anyone else had Bob Dylan’s song The Times They Are A-Changin in their head lately? Thanks to the early musical influences from my dad this song has been my personal soundtrack in recent weeks. Over the last few months all of us humans have experienced a rapid amount of change. While our situations are different I believe we can build a foundation of understanding with each other by sharing what has changed for each of us. For me these changes have included: * moving my day job into my home, * enjoying coffee with friends over Zoom while missing their homey kitchens, * being even more uncomfortable with my young adult daughter being on her own in the world, * missing my commuting podcast time, and * moving my yoga and handstand practices into my tiny basement suite home. I’ve also had to decide what to do about teaching my yoga and acro classes with no scheduled end date to physical distancing. Do I learn new technology and move my classes online? Do my students even want online classes? My brain was full of a lot of change, problem solving options, and a little bit of fear of the unknown . After a few weeks of adjustment time…aka. time to breathe…. a few amazing people encouraged me to follow my own favourite advice to try new things and move my classes online. Twenty-two brave, adventurous humans decided to join me in moving their in-person practice to an online Zoom environment. A few brave humans even decided to try yoga for the first time ever in this new online world! The last few weeks have made my heart sing! To be back in the yoga and movement space with other people in real time has allowed many of us (me included!) to feel a little less alone. Change however can be a tricky beast. If you have moved your practice online, or are thinking about it soon, here are three tips for embracing moving your yoga practice to the live online space. 1) Be creative with designing your own unique yoga space. Have you ever been to an in-person class and thought, ‘I wish these lights were a little dimmer. This playlist isn’t suiting my right now. I can’t wait until the next candlelight or essential oil practice, when is that going to be?’ This is your chance to make your yoga space everything you, and only you, desire! Before class take a moment to set your stage. * adjust your lighting, * press play on your favourite playlist, * pull out your most comfy yoga gear, and * make a yoga space that matches your personality! Creating comfy space can be done even in small spaces. I practice next to my fridge in my kitchen. I discovered with some lamp light, moving my space heater, and making sure I’ve swept up my dust bunnies (at least the ones I can see from my mat!) I have created comfy little spot just for my personal movement practice. Yes, you may have loud roomies or kids outside your bedroom door, but inside that door your room is your retreat spot! 2) Enjoy the privacy to do what feels good for your body and mind. Not wanting to share you haven’t changed out of your pj’s today? Is your body craving a slower or more heated pracice today? Ready to try that new pose with guidance but also in privacy? With live online classes, you get to connect in real time and benefit from privacy. You get to choose if you want your video screen off or on. There are benefits to both of these options. Embrace the choice of determining your level of privacy or openness for each class. Then get ready to rock your practice in your own style all while connecting with others humans in the virtual world! 3) Be aware the energy will feel different...and that is okay! Live online classes are going to feel different at home compared to in-person class. The energy of others doesn’t transmit the same way across the internet the same way it does in air. We miss out on tactile sensations, the power from group breathing, and the change of scenery from leaving the house. On the other hand, in a live online class you get to create your environment, choose your level of privacy and save time by not having to commute. You know that time you wanted to have a nap after final rest in Savasana and not have to worry about driving home? This is your chance! Final notes… Moving your yoga practice into your home with live online classes does bring change. Sometimes those changes may have you missing your old practice space. That is okay! Take a moment to acknowledge these feelings. It is important to recognize and honour how this time is affecting you. Building awareness of your honest feelings is practicing yoga off your mat (and that is a topic for another day!) As we move through this transition to online home practice I encourage you to dig into your feelings of excitement when trying something new. Embrace the ups and downs of learning the new technology which allows us to be together in real time. Discover your creative self while finding unique ways to turn your kitchen, bedroom or basement into your new yoga space. Every time you move, stretch and strengthen you are improving your healthspan and providing space for self growth. I hope to see you on the mat soon as we breathe, move and grow together in a live, online class! ~Sarah PS. 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