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Don’t you just love it when your yoga practice goes into overdrive? You get all of these yoga breakthroughs. You start seeing huge progressions during every practice. You get the mental and spiritual growth that comes with all of that stuff. It’s pretty much what every yogi strives for. It’s almost hard to keep up with it all. Perhaps there’s an executive assistant you can hire when you’re having one of those bomb yoga weeks.
These past couple of days, my spirit has been switched ON in a big way. A lot of the things I’ve found challenging since my month with Ana, seem to be coming a little easier. When I started teacher training, I had some huuuuge ego issues. I had never really noticed it before, because I was in classes with people who were about at the same level. So, I must have just competed with myself. But when I got into that lovely room filled with all of those beautiful and talented yogis, something switched on. I found that seeing how much more advanced they were was absolutely killing me. I would beat myself up for not being able to do what they could do. I thought I was some sort of a hack. Even after I got out of training, I compared myself to these other new yoga teachers. They were all so great at it, that there was no reason for me to try to compete. I wasn’t a yoga teacher compared to these folks. I was an intermediate student at best.
But if these past few days have taught me anything, it was how to release that feeling and be powerful in my teaching career, my practice, and my every day life. When I’m freshly out of a two hour yoga class in Denver, my spirit is so delighted that I can’t help but spread my confidence around.
Today, I held Scissors for longer than I’ve ever held it. Yesterday, I practiced for two hours with my eyes closed, and I was asked by the best yoga teacher in Denver to assist her during one of her workshops. Two days ago, I got into queen pigeon by myself for the first time. It’s been day after day of awesome growth, and while I’m trying not to become attached to it, I’ve really been appreciating it. Yay for yoga breakthroughs!
I’m a huge fan of scissors now, and suggest you go ahead and give it a go. Do about 5-10 sun salutations to get warmed up for the balance and get into it!
What’s your latest yoga breakthrough?
Hey there yogis! You know how much we love our bandhas, right? If not, then it’s time to recognize. I love a good bandha. I could throw a Bandha party and everyone would come because my enthusiasm about them is catching. Bandhas create a binding, contracting motion, and there are three major Bandhas that you can incorporate into your practice. There’s Mula Bandha, where you contract the root of your pelvis into a root lock. There’s Jalandhara Bandha, the throat lock. And then there’s Uddiyana Bandha. Uddiyana can be translated as “belly flies up,” and that gives you a pretty good idea of the motion of this particular Bandha. If you combine all three Bandhas at once, it creates The Great Lock, or the Maha Bandha. Maha Bandha is a pretty intense lock, and releasing it releases a ton of energy.




Hey there small space yogis! Thank you for joining me today. I hope you’ve had an amazing week so far and I really hope you’re enjoying this lovely winter Saturday morning.














