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Emotional Freedom Through Yoga

When the weather and seasons change, we often feel our bodies respond. When it's colder outside, we feel more contained and stiff. When it's warmer, we feel open and supple. But during this transition period, where they may be more rain or flowers blooming, there may be energy and emotions stuck in the heart and the hips that need to move out and around! All you need is a yoga mat, bolsters, and a yoga belt to get yourself on the way to spring cleaning yourself out.

Our hearts are the emotional center of love, joy, gratitude, and peace. However, when we suppress our emotions, they often get stuck down in the hips. And when we go to our yoga mat- we feel it! Here are two poses you can try to get yourself emotionally free today.

Gomukhasana / Cow Face Pose

Here, we will open the hips and the heart together. Start by tucking your left leg underneath your right so the knees are squeezed tightly together in front of you. If this is uncomfortable, simply cross your legs or stack your hips up on a bolster.

Root your sitting bones down into the ground and then reach your right arm up and left your arm back. Reach for the hands behind you or clasp onto your belt for assistance. Take 5 deep breaths here and then fold forward and hold for another 5-10 breaths. Slowly release and either move onto the next pose or practice the other side.

Restorative Pigeon Pose / Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana

Transitioning from Gomukhasana, swing the right leg back and shift the hips so they are square to the front. Make sure the front leg is externally rotated so the knee points toward the front left corner of your mat. For a deep, supportive variation, place a bolster underneath your hips and one in front of you.

Straighten out your back leg and lengthen your spine on an inhale. As you exhale, slowly fold forward. Drape your torso and head over the bolster and give it a nice hug. Exhale all of your stress and old, toxic thoughts and feelings away. Breathe deeply into your hips. Allow yourself to sink and surrender into this supported pigeon pose. Stay for 2 minutes.

Active Pigeon Pose

If you desire a more dynamic practice of pigeon pose, try the full variation. You can still use a bolster for support under the hips if needed. Set the legs up in the same position. This time, keep the torso upright and reach back for your right foot with your right hand. Rotate the arm so that you point the elbow up to the sky and bring the foot closer to your head, eventually reaching back with the other arm.

If this feels out of reach, use one of our yoga belts! Loops the yoga belt around your foot and work on flipping your grip and rotating your arm. Slowly and surely, over time with practice, the belt will make this advanced posture more accessible. The beauty of using props is they can make any pose accessible to anyone!

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What is the Key for Daily Happiness?

Everyone prefers to be happy rather than being unhappy, sad or miserable. And there come numerous occasions in our life when we feel happy. However, all too often this sense of joy fleets as we encounter another challenge in life through unfolding circumstances. The key question, therefore, is how can we daily remain happy despite what happens around us?

Being happy does not mean you have to be cheerful and smiling all the time. 

Happiness is an overall feeling of satisfaction and contentment with your life from within. It is a state where you feel calm, peace and contented. To be able to experience an inner sense of serenity and bliss, the key lies in the way we perceive life and our mindset. In turn, this alters our behaviour and our speech towards others and reinforces this sense of calm.

Keys to daily happiness

●Maintain an obliging nature – help others especially the old and the sick. For example, you could go to the pharmacy for them, run errands, basically provide support for them in whatever way possible.

●Start off the day by remaining and feeling positive – every time you have a bad thought, replace it with five good thoughts. Meditate introspectively on your thoughts, and see how many negative thoughts you have just in one day. Once you do this, you will understand the impact that this kind of thinking has on you, your well-being and on others!

●Internal suffering and misery are brought on by emotions of anger, pride, greed and deceit. These emotions are the very cause of our pain and suffering, so beware of them and do not allow them to linger.

●Spiritual science explains if you cause hurt to anyone through your thoughts, your actions or with your words, you will also in turn get hurt. Therefore, have the intent that you do not want to cause harm to any living being through your mind, speech and body.

●Sometimes you inadvertently hurt someone - even when you have no intention of doing so! If this happens, ask for forgiveness from them – you can do this internally speaking to their soul - rather than face to face. When you repent, any pain that you have caused to others will get washed off and you will feel lighter and the positive vibrations of your intentions will reach them too. And remember, when you have a bad intention these vibrations reach them too!

●If you want to feel happy then make others happy! This is a simple but extremely powerful statement. You must have experienced the joy when you have put someone else’s happiness above your own. For example, when you have supported someone who is struggling at school or at work, how did it feel at that time? It is like when you smile at someone, the likelihood is that they will smile back.

●Having an open mind and a willingness to adjust to situations and the people around us, we can make a huge difference to the way we feel; and it has a great positive impact on those whom we interact with too.

●A balanced life is a very important factor in how you feel: so, eat healthy, take good sleep, be physically active and try to avoid bad sedentary habits. Basically, maintain normality in everything that you do in life.

Mostly, having the awareness of how we are feeling is the key! There may be times when we may not know the reason or cause behind our unhappiness but subconsciously we feel low! However, through mindfulness, we can certainly alter our life to help bring daily happiness in it.

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