This week in class, we'll use the breath and forward bends to experience calmness and inner peace.
Here are a few tips for finding your calm center:
1. Bring the forehead slightly in front of the chin even when lying down in savasana. This might mean using a pillow or blanket at the end of class.
2. Focus on your exhales and allow them to get longer. Don't force them. By bringing awareness to the out-breath, it will lengthen on its own. You simply allow this to happen.
3. When sitting, keep the pelvic bowl and sit bones heavy as you inhale bring lightness in your heart center. Imagine there is a string on the crown of the head gently lifting it skyward. Be careful to still have the forehead slightly in front of the chin, as if the head is bowing, but without hanging the head forward and pulling on the neck/shoulders. Play with finding the spot of expansion without effort or strain.
4. Listen to soothing music. The harp, such as on this CD, can be very calming.
5. Meditate, such as with this meditation CD.
6. Each inhale focus on the word and feeling of 'peace'. Each exhale silently say 'thank you.' Do this for at least 3 minutes.
7. Engage in a practice with mostly forward bends.
Namaste,
Kris Kramer
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Dr Taylor says: I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be.
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