Asana and Reading for March 2011
Winter is starting to leave us with the warmer spring creeping into the days. Spring is a time of new beginnings and rebirth.
In this month’s yoga sessions, we will focus on techniques to bring rebirth into the body and mind with detoxifying asanas (postures) and breathing. Yoga is very good for detox as it targets the three main systems involved in toxin removal from the body: the circulatory system, the lymph system and the digestive system.
This month’s sequence contains a series of poses focussed on detoxing the body. Twisted poses wring toxins and tension out of the core of the body, while the Downward Dog pose brings the heart above the head, helping blood and lymph circulation.
Some of the twisting postures we will be doing are: Twisted chair pose, twisted lunge, spinal twist and seated twist.
In pranayama, we will practice Khapalabati breath, a breath seen as an excellent way to detox through the lungs and increase our lung capacity, helping us to get more oxygen into the body and release more carbon dioxide.
I leave you with our reading for March, a quote by Robert Fulghum which reminds us that life is not always as complicated as we think it is.
| Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandbox. |
| These are the things I learned. Save everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and sing and dance and play and work some every day. |
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