How to Practice Yoga is More About How it Feels + Less About How it Looks

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It’s okay to be enthralled by beautiful images of those crazy gravity defying, twisted gestures and sculptural yoga poses that get posted all over. While those poses can be great fun and challenge to try and achieve, but the truth is that what Yoga looks like on the outside isn’t what matters.

Through the playful, practical mindset and self-care practice that a traditional yoga practice offers, you can develop more control over your life, health and your emotional reality. Be happier using the outline of the 8 Limbs of Yoga practice, which is much easier than you think.

How do you really WANT to feel going forward?

If you want to know when to do yoga, how to feel strong, focused, centered, calm and energized— part of reducing your anxiety lies in understanding the system of yoga and the 8limbs yoga practice all teach us that what’s most important is our connection to others first, then to ourselves. Our physical movement, breath and ability to sit with ourselves completes the way. It’s the method for concentrating on what is, so we can look deeper to achieve the balance and calm we seek.

WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT IS THAT …

  • You're applying the systems of yoga while paying attention to what’s going on inside of you.
    Feeling your muscles engage and your breath moving through your body strengthens all of your body systems while building strength, better health creates power and calm.

  • You're implementing parts of yoga as efforts towards self-care and connection.
    Yoga poses are only part of the picture, there are 8 parts of this practice that work together towards the holistic balance that benefits your life on, and off of your yoga mat.

  • You're strategically organizing your practical yoga practice so it supports the truth of who you are, and what you want. 
    The point of practice is for you to have a deeper and more meaningful relationship with yourself. So stop trying to be someone else, and focus on you.


Personal yoga practice is to be customized—

As a teacher and yoga mentor, my Yoga Lessons + Life Practice highlight the parts of yoga that resonate most with you, and together we apply them to your needs, tendencies and goals.


LET THIS BE THE YEAR YOU—

  • Stop shaming yourself for not being able to do things that don’t matter.

  • Give yourself the gift of more stability by implementing an organized, and practical plan to get you there.

  • Make the time and get support to help you achieve, and be accountable to the changes you really want for yourself now— and for the long haul.

    Let’s design a plan for your life + new year.
    Are you ready to FEEL GOOD?

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Teri Gandy-Richardson