Winter is time to slow down, rest, and pause between activities, giving your energy a chance to reset itself for the year. Water Element is an active force right now and it's time to nourish your Water Vitality. Listen to your body and take time for self-care with...
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Free Your Joints: Joint Rotations
Are your joints feeling achy, creaky and perhaps even painful? Try this flow to nourish your joints. Easy rotations will help to warm up the synovial fluid around the joint to make your movement more graceful, coordinated and effortless, like a clear mountain stream....
Grounding Yoga Practices: Cultivating Apana Vayu Downward Current
Grounding, calming and stabilizing, the downward flowing energy within you is called APANA VAYU. When you feel it and work in your practice to cultivate it, it will help you to find your roots and get grounded. When you EXHALE, you can easily feel this downward wash...
Cooling Breathwork to Chill By
Fire element comes into fullest expression during the summer with excitement, warmth, and outward flowing energy. During this intense 'yang' time of the year, we can feel increased heat, anxiety, agitation, irritability, anger and insomnia. We can burn out by summer’s...
Soothing Self-Massage
Five Element Yoga® includes numerous types of Self-Massage including Swedish, Traditional Chinese Meridians and energy points, acupressure, and Ayurvedic treatments. Enjoy this easy soothing flow to CALM DOWN or to FALL ASLEEP! Enjoy this as a pdf or on this page....
Inner Water Element Blessing
I wrote a poem - and I don't write poems - at least, it has been many years. Perhaps it was the inspiration of water element which filled my day yesterday both outdoors, and inside my own body as I practiced and prepared for our upcoming joints series. The joints are...
5 Tips for Happy Joints!
Joint health is fundamental for flowing with ease, comfort and grace in the body. The joints tend to lose flexibility due to reduced amounts of lubricating fluids, hormonal shifts, and cartilage thins as we age. Here are some easy tips to incorporate into your life to...
Vagus Nerve for Relaxation: 5 Easy Practices
The Vagus Nerve is the body’s largest nerve, traveling like a "superhighway" through the torso, connecting and influencing most major organs and body systems. It plays a central role in both emotional and physical well-being, acting as the main parasympathetic nerve,...
Sphynx Yoga Pose: Open Heart’s Compassion
Opens the chest, shoulders, ribs. Helps to roll shoulders backwards. Fosters expanded and deepened breath. Stimulates thymus gland to aid in immune health and balance. Strengthens the upper back combating the 'slouch'. Stretches muscles of the neck and the Vagus Nerve...
4 Yoga Stretches for a Good Night’s Sleep
Reach for better rest when you add these bedtime yoga poses to your sleep routine. BY STEVE CALECHMAN JULY 21, 2020 Before the pandemic, 25% of Americans suffered from acute insomnia every year, according to a 2018 study from the University of Pennsylvania. We can...