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Your foundation for strength starts here. With YogaEasy and Emily! 🌟

Strong Start is a structured, beginner-friendly strength training program. You’ll learn foundational movement patterns, understand key strength-training principles, and build confidence with 4 progressive, repeatable workouts practised over 4 weeks.

📌 Save this note about Brahmaviharas for later.

Brahmaviharas, a set of four virtues or qualities that hold great significance in various Buddhist traditions. These qualities are often referred to as ‘divine abodes’, as nurturing them within ourselves can lead to a state of mind akin to that of the divine or heavenly realms.

The Brahmaviharas consist of loving-kindness (Metta), compassion (Karuna), empathetic joy (Mudita), and equanimity (Upekkha).

🪬 How They Are Practiced 🪬
In traditional meditation practice, practitioners work to radiate these states outward in all directions. They generally progress in stages, starting with directing the feeling toward oneself, and then expanding outward to loved ones, neutral people, difficult people, and eventually all sentient beings.

Sitting for too long is the main cause of tight hip flexors. Whether your posture is perfect or you’re slouched over, extended sitting will shorten your hip flexors 🫠

We’re here to help tho! Comment HIPS and we will send you our top 10 postures for tight hips 💌

🌀 Balasana (Child’s Pose) is meant to be a calming, restorative pose. A chance to draw inwards, to get your breath back or to use as a rest in place of poses you are skipping – but for many people it just hurts! Here are a few variations and modifications to change it from aargh to aaahhh…

☝ I get sore knees and ankles
If the front of your ankles doesn’t stretch so much, or if the tops of your feet are sensitive, try using a few DIY props. Take a blanket or towel and roll it. Place it on your mat so that your ankles can stay bent and rest on it.
☝ My head and hips are miles off the floor
If you have a stiff back or tight muscles, Balasana can help with flexibility. If you’re uncomfortable and straining in the pose, you’ll tighten up more. Use props like a cushion under your head or hips, or rest your forehead on your fists.
☝ Arms forwards or backwards?
If your hips lift in Balasana, you might feel like tipping forward, putting excess weight on your head. Moving your arms forward, instead of alongside your body, can help counter this and add a stretch to your shoulders, making the pose more active.

📌 Our thigh bones and hip flexibility vary, making a wide-legged Child’s Pose more comfortable for some than a knees-together one. Try both. The wide-legged is good for pregnant women and those with rounder bellies, and can feel less claustrophobic.

Which do you prefer?

If you are feeling the need for love, Metta Bhavana is the perfect practice for you at this moment. Comment METTA and practice it for half an hour with Tashi 🫂❤️

Not all lower back tension is the same, and the fix isn’t always another forward fold 👇

📌 When we sit rounded for hours, the deeper tissues of the lower back are already in a slow, passive stretch. More of the same doesn’t solve the real issue here. A backbend, even a gentle one, signals to the connective tissue to return to its natural length, and that’s often what actually brings relief.

The curriculum from our 200-hour Teacher Training is now available as standalone modules, so you can go deep on the areas that matter most to your teaching, without committing to the full program 🧿🌀

Whether you’re looking to improve confidence in a specific pose category, explore a topic you haven’t fully covered yet, or fill a gap in your training, there’s a module for it.

All modules are 20% off until June 23rd. Use code LEARN20 at checkout. Link in bio 💌

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