Hips, Heart, Head: Stimulating spinal and energetic awareness

An interesting exploration is to work to line up the back of your hips, back of your heart, and back of your head in every single yoga posture for the duration of your practice.

This movement meditation has a ton of cognitive, proprioceptive, and energetic benefits - however done repetitively over time will also grant you a more subtle and delightful access to the energy within your inner body and spinal column.

This practice is very supportive and healing to the mind, while stimulating the governing vessel meridian, bladder meridian, core, and Shushumna Nadi.

Try it if you feel called, see if it makes a difference for you.

🔹 turn inward first, to locate and spend time with your wise and quiet self within. connect to Source within you.

🔹 then expand your awareness back into your body from a focused, breath-aware, intentional and caring place.

🔹 feel the back of your sacrum, back of your heart, back of your skull line up with each other, use a wall at first if you need it (you can also use the centerpoints of these 3 places if you have access to internal sensation).

🔹 begin your yoga practice finding this alignment in every pose. Some poses to try out are:

• table-top pose

• downward facing dog

• standing mountain/ tadasana

• cobra pose

• warrior 2, side angle, triangle

• crescent lunge

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To add a little more power, leverage, and peace to your yoga practice, add the following additional steps:

🔹 seek to understand others before seeking to convince them of your perspective - so that you can give to others the experience of respect, compassion and interconnectedness that our world so desperately needs right now.

🔹 as best as possible, fill the environments you move through with kindness, sparkle, and love in spite of differences. This is a tall order these days, be sure to do your practice regularly to replenish a sense of patience, awareness, discernment and strength 🤗💕

🔹 make sure you are registered to vote and that you properly research who is running for office locally, what their interests are, who is endorsing them, and props on the ballot - so that we can have the best chance for a better future than what we’re seeing now.

Breath and love,
Fully in the shock and struggle with ya baby cakes,
Natasha.