![]() Slide your right hand to your shin or a block, and extend your left arm up and overhead. Exhale, tip your pelvis and long torso to the right. Rotate your right thigh until your knee faces the sky, then point your right toes down toward the ground. Slide your hands to your hips to make sure your pelvis is stable. Rise up to balance on your left shin and right foot. Make sure your left knee is stacked under your left hip. SEE ALSO Stefanie Eris, What’s In Your Yoga Bag? Gate Poseįrom all fours, extend your right leg out to the right, heel in line with hip. Inhale deeply into the left side body exhale, come back to center. Draw your right ribs in toward the midline. ![]() Take a long inhale and lift the back ribs up and off of the pelvis, in opposition to your legs anchored to the earth. As you root down into the ground, plug your thigh bones up to stabilize your pelvis. Ground all four corners of your feet into the floor. After several rounds of Sun Salutations, practice the following 9 poses to harness the fire of the summer, burn off excess energy, get grounded, turn inward, and direct your attention toward something new. Yoga gives us the tools to move through transitions, seasonal or otherwise, with grace. Embrace the joy, dreams, and fantasies you’ve concocted over the summer, but as fall approaches, come back down to earth and make those dreams a reality. But if we step back and look at the world with a bird’s eye view, we realize that with each new season comes an opportunity to see ourselves and the world more clearly, from another perspective. It’s tough to trade in beach days for back to school and earlier sunsets. This week’s featured instructor is Stefanie Eris, who taught at Bryant Park last night.Īs summer nears its end (already?!), it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the real world creeping back into our lives. Keep an eye out on my Workshops page as this is a workshop I love to offer during the year and its always being updated with new workshops.Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!īryant Park Yoga is back in New York City for its 12th season, featuring teachers curated by Yoga Journal. I’ve added this sequence as a PDF on my Online Studio under Printable Sequenceson the website, head over there to download your own copy. ![]() Grounding and focusing the body and mind.BenefitsĬhandra Namaskar can also be beneficial for: ![]() This is the perfect practice for the practice of gratitude as can be done slowly and with consideration. Practice this under the moonlight with minimal distractions for the full effects the Chandra Namaskar flow and the energies of the moon has to offer. The side stretches and circular movements of the sequence can be considered to represent the phases of the moon as it waxes and wanes. The sequence of asanas for Chandra Namaskar has many variations, but will often involve moving to the right and left, and facing the long edge of the mat. Another approach is to include both Surya Namaskar and Chandra Namaskar in the same yoga practise to promote a balanced state where you feel energised yet calm It is often practise during the time of the full moon when the lunar energy is as its peak but can also be practise at any time during the lunar cycle. This sequence is best practiced in the evening time once the moon has risen and you can work with the lunar energies. ![]() The yin energy and the energy of the Chandra Namaskar sequence is cooling, calming and meditative. BalancingĬhandra Namaskar cultivates a yin energy (as in the Daoist Principle of Yin & Yang) whereas Surya Namaskar is more yang. The name “Chandra Namaskar” is derived from the Sanskrit, chandra, meaning “moon,” and “ namaskar,” meaning “salutation.” Although less well known than the Surya Namaskar (the Sun Salutations), they complement it perfectly, as they embrace the opposite, interconnected cooling energy. So here’s a little more information if you love it too! MeaningĬhandra Namaskar is a simple sequence which honours and acknowledges the energy of the moon. The Chandra Namaskar yoga sequence is one of my personal favorites and I know many of my students in Southampton would agree. ![]()
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