Monthly Archives: February 2021

‘Weight’ Time!!! (3/1-3/6/21)

Greetings from YFL!!! Happy March, Spring, and St. Patrick’s Day!!! This week’s yoga practice will emphasize weight bearing in the form of hand weights, and of course, your own body weight!!! Our Sanskrit focus is ‘So Hum’, or I am _______? The hand gesture or mudra is the classic Jnana, or position for ‘Universal Knowledge & Support’. This week’s Yin practice will serve to open and release the hip joints, or ‘Happy Hips’!!! Our meditation focus is ‘I am ____?’ The music for your meditation time is Tom Barabas’ CD, Nuages, and the song selection is ‘Clouds’. The March newsletter should be on your email desk sometime tomorrow (3/1/21)!!!

PROPS:

Weights (1 to 2 lbs.) optional, block

YIN-bolster, block, blanket

Wed: Virtual Yoga w/Deb-‘Weight’ Time

Sun: Sunday Meditation w/Deb

It will be another great week, and new month at YFL!!! As always, we can’t wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

“Never think that what you have to offer is insignificant. There will always be someone out there who needs what you have to give”.—Anonymous

Classic Hatha Week=Power + Flow (2/22-2/27/21)

Greetings from YFL!!! It is ‘Classic Hatha’ week, which will emphasize the balancing of power, and flow!!! Our Sanskrit focus is ‘Karuna’, or compassion for ALL. Our mudra (hand gesture) is the ‘Grounding Mudra’, one hand to the heart, and the other grounding into ‘Mother Earth’. This week’s Yin practice will emphasize the range of motion of the spine, or ‘Spinal Bliss’. Our meditation focus is ‘Compassion’, and the music for your contemplative time is Piano Meditation’s, ‘White Dove’.

PROPS:

Classic Hatha: block, strap

Yin: bolster, block, blanket

WED: Virtual Yoga w/ Deb (Classic Hatha)

SUN: Virtual Meditation w/Deb (Yoga Nidra)

It will be another great week at YFL, and as always, we can’t wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

“May your day be blessed, your morning bright, your evenings filled with far and sprite. May you dine on joy, feast on hope, bathe in the graceful Light of love”.—Ramblings of the Claury

To ‘The Wall’, and Beyond!!! (2/15-2/19/21)

Greetings from YFL!!! Happy President’s Day!!!  It is time to return to ‘The Wall’ & Beyond!!!  This week we will use the wall as our magical tool of alignment, focus, and power!!! Our Sanskrit focus is ‘Sankalpa’, or your ‘Intention’, ‘Resolution’. I challenge you to create just one intent each time you meditate, practice, or as you start your day!!! Our mudra (hand gesture) is the ‘Openness’ position for the hands. This gesture promotes an ‘opening to the window of your soul’, and helps clear the bronchial tubes and makes breathing clear, and more efficient. Our meditation focus is ‘Clarity’. As you listen to this week’s music selection, Yoga Relaxation’s ‘Music for Meditation’, allow the connection to, and flow of your breath,  summon clarity of mind, body, and heart. This week’s Yin practice will serve to balance ‘The Chakras’.

PROPS:

Wall Practice: Wall (We provide!!! :-)), Block

Yin Practice: Block, Bolster, Blanket

Wed: Virtual Yoga w/Deb (Sukha-Stirrha)

Sun: Virtual Meditation w/Deb (The Trinity of Sacred Energy-God Gland (Pineal), Belly Gland (Vagus Nerve), and the Mind’s Eye (Third Eye).

It will be another great week at YFL, and as always, we can’t way to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

“Look, I want to love this world as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to and know it”.—Mary Oliver

 

Triple ‘R’ Week-Rest, Renew, and Restore (2/8-2/13/21)

Greetings from YFL, and Happy Valentine’s Day!!! Remember, if you need a gift for that ‘special someone’, we have gift certificates available!!! Contact Deb @ yogaforlife06@verizon.net. This week we focus on the three ‘Rs’-Rest, Renew, and Restore, thus, it is Restorative Week!!! Our Sanskrit focus is ‘AUM Shanti Ananda’, or to connect in the bliss of peace!!! Our mudra (hand gesture) is for ‘Vitality’, or ‘Staying Young’, and it also promotes cleansing of the lymph system. Our meditation focus is ‘Love’, and may be focused upon, while listening to ‘Kiran Murti’s’, ‘Indian Dream’.

This week’s Yin practice will focus on balancing the ‘Heart Chakra’, or ‘Anahata’. It will include the sounding of the ‘Crystal Bowl’ for this chakra!!!

PROPS:

Restorative: Bolster, Blanket, Block

Yin: Bolster, Block

WED: Virtual Yoga w/Deb (Restorative)-YouTube Channel

SUN: Meditation w/Deb (Yoga Citta Ananda Niroda)

This week at home, work, and play do at least ONE THING everyday that makes you happy. It can be as simple  as listening to your favorite song!!!-Deepak Chopra

It will be another great week at YFL, and as usual, we can’t wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb