Nurture Your Energy: 3 Poses to Embrace Winter❄️

With the onset of Winter "water" energy, we suggest these 3 poses to inspire your daily practice. These poses will nourish the kidneys and help transform fear into serenity and💙self-love.

Child's Pose opens the back body and releases fear.

Sink back towards heels and extend arms. Focus on in and out breaths and relax and release worry. 

Seal increases circulation along back body, opens torso, and energizes and nourishes kidneys.

Lie face down with legs extended and feet on the mat. Place hands beside your ribcage, fingers spread, elbows close. Inhale, press into your palms, and lift your chest, keeping hips and legs grounded. Engage your core, extend through your head, relax shoulders, and look forward without straining your neck. Stay for 3-5 breaths then sink to mat, turn head to one side and feel your connection to sacred ground. Repeat when ready.

Waterfall💧enhances circulation, increases sense of trust, and promotes calm🪷.

Begin lying on your back with your feet flat on the mat and knees bent. Press down firmly into your feet, lift your hips up, and slide a block (low side) underneath your sacrum (the hard, bony triangle of fused vertebrae at the bottom of your spine)—fully supporting your pelvis. With the back of your head, shoulders, arms, and hands on the floor, palms face up, bring one knee at a time toward your chest and lengthen both legs straight up (bend knees, if needed).

Once the legs are up, circulation flows easily down legs, reversing the effects of gravity and relieving tired leg muscles, and allowing your heart rate to slow down. To release, bend both knees and place both feet back down on the floor. Press firmly down into your feet to lift the hips up and slide the block out from underneath your sacrum. Take a few breaths lying flat with the knees still bent before rolling to one side to get up.

These poses compliment the rhythm and season of Winter and the impact of these changes to our body, mind and spirit. Winter is a time of deep rest, reflection, and nourishment. It invites in the flowing energy of water, the🔷color blue, balancing fear and observing serenity. It's wise to keep our low back covered, indulge in warm teas and soups🍲and encourage rest. We practice poses that support the seasons, so lets say goodbye to winter blues and keep the body warm. Join us in class and see what all the buzz 🐝is about.