Yoga Better

Hard things are hard. 💪⁣
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You only gain and maintain strength by challenging your body.⁣
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• You are heavy.⁣
• Strength takes time.⁣
• Start with where you are. Like right now, today!⁣
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And, as you’ve heard us say before… enjoy the striving. In other words: don’t give up.⁣
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Keep practicing. Keep thinking.⁣
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A little bit goes a long way. ❤️⁣
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To everyone who has a body(that’s you!!): 🙌

Your body isn’t like a pencil. ✏️
It doesn’t wear down from use.
It gets better at what you practice.

This is me at 45 and my dad(turning 79 in a few days).
We can both do full-range squats. Why?

We practice. That’s it.

Can’t do a full squat yet? Totally okay. Go only as low as you can without pain, and keep building from there.

Just don’t wait. Every day you skip it, your body gets better at NOT doing the things you want it to do.

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Start where you are. Future you will say thank you. ❤️

Dancer’s Twist!

This is a great one to do in the morning, right after you wake up, or in the evening just before you go to bed.

**One of the easiest ways we know to ruin your spine in a hurry is to twist while slouching, a.k.a. spinal flexion.

Unfortunately, that describes almost every normally accepted yoga twist.

Though twisting while slouching is akin to poison, twisting through extension is like eating your veggies.

Try it out. Be sweet. Pay attention. Inhale. Let us know if you have any questions.

Things to note:

If you feel any twinges in your knees or back, back off and try again. See if you can change the direction by reaching a little longer through that straight arm before you rotate. Be mindful of keeping the front of your shoulder off the floor.

Bon appétit!

Sometimes life shows up and you get to practice yoga with mountains in the background.

But that’s not (necessarily) everyday life.

Sometimes beauty looks like your legs are burning, your tight are knees, you’re stuck in traffic, or you lost your balance.

Maybe instead of being serious and significant, you could be sweet to yourself. Just begin again.

Because mistakes are going to happen. There’s no way around it.

If you don’t give up, the good news is: You get better.

The only way to get good at anything is to be willing to be bad at it first.
Let it be hard.
Let it feel impossible.
Keep going.

✨ Enjoy the striving.
✨ Feel the significance.
✨ Then let it go.

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Hugs from all of us.

Andrew is BACK!
Tonight and every Thurs this Summer...woot!

We’re all figuring out this thing called being alive for the very 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 time. 🌎✨⁣
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No one 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 knows what they’re doing.⁣
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Not me.⁣
Not you.⁣
Not the people who seem confident.⁣
Not the people giving advice.⁣
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We’re all making our best guesses from where we stand, navigating circumstances we’ve never encountered before. 🧭⁣
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As you’ve probably noticed, life won’t always go according to plan. 🌧️☀️⁣
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People will disappoint us.⁣
We will disappoint ourselves.⁣
Things will end. 🍂⁣
Things will begin. 🌱⁣
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And every time we allow ourselves to fully experience what is here: the joy, grief, fear, awe, uncertainty, and love… we become a little more skillful at being alive.⁣
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We sharpen the tools in our toolkit for future moments that are as yet unknown. 🛠️✨⁣
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Since difficult feelings are part of the deal, perhaps the work is to develop the capacity to meet life as it unfolds.⁣
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To savor, if you will, the flavor of right now. 💗⁣
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Want to invert? 🙃

Want to spend 2 hours exploring some of the most fun, challenging, and rewarding movements in the movement world?

Join us for a 2-hour workshop focused on building safer, stronger foundations for:
• Handstands
• Forearmstands
• Inversions & transitions
• Balance, control, and confidence upside down

This workshop is not designed for total beginners, but it is open to anyone who wants more. More strength, more skill, more understanding, and more play. 💚

Come challenge yourself. Chuckle a little. Learn a lot. Have fun. 🤸

This Saturday, May 23rd, from 12-2 pm, we have our Intermediate Inversions Workshop!

Never wanted to be in a handstander farm stand? Learning as an adult? Worried about getting injured? This is the workshop for you. 2 hours of work for the discerning student of yoga.

Not beginner friendly but if you cannot get into a Handstand, you will still have fun!

In my 20s, I couldn’t do this 𝘢𝘯𝘺 of this and definitely not with kindness to myself. 🤗⁣
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Not because I was lazy but because I didn’t yet understand how to work 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 my body instead of against it.⁣
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One of my favorite things about getting older has been discovering that feeling better, getting stronger, moving with more freedom, kindness and grace is still available… Maybe now more than ever given 𝗡𝗢𝗪 is what we’ve got. 💚⁣
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You do not need to already be flexible, advanced, or “𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘨𝘢” to begin. A little bit really does go a long way and the sooner you start, the better. 💪⁣
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Come move with us:⁣
🌿 Saturdays at 9am at Discovery Green (𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 community class)⁣
🏡 Or at the studio with us at Yoga Better⁣
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