Take a moment to pause, breathe, and simply be. 🧘🏻
Notice the gentle rise and fall of your breath, the sensations in your body, the sounds around you.
Cultivate mindfulness, for it is the gateway to inner peace and clarity. 🌿
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Got to visit a beautiful lavender farm this weekend with my honey. 💜They’re so pretty & I love how they smell. Lavender flowers represent purity, silence, devotion, serenity, grace, and calmness. All the qualities I appreciate and to which I aspire. #lavenderfields #lavender #mindfulness
Practicing yoga offers numerous benefits beyond the commonly known advantages such as improved flexibility, strength, and stress relief.
🧘🏼♀️ Did you know that yoga can improve digestion, heighten creativity, enhance respiratory function, strength the immune system, enhance mental clarity, increase body awareness, and improve balance and coordination? And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! 🧘🏼♀️
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🧘🏼♀️This is your reminder to pause and take a moment to breathe.
✔️ We can get so wrapped up in our to do list and all the things that we’re supposed to be accomplishing. While you’re focusing on your to do list and all the things you’re supposed to be accomplishing, your breath can become shallow. You might even be unconsciously holding your breath. 🍃
So, when life becomes difficult or overwhelming, choose to return to the awareness of your breath. Just take 60 seconds and breathe on purpose.
🧠Breathing gets more oxygen to the thinking brain. When you can think more clearly, you are more present don’t have to be stuck in fight, flight or freeze mode.
😉 When we take time to breathe, we allow ourselves to slow down and respond rather than react.
💡Science shows that breathing slowly and deeply can induce a relaxation response in the body.
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What are you doing to take care of yourself today? 💕
#selfcare #youmatter #mindfulness #mindfulnesspractice
One act of kindness can change someone’s day… imagine the ripple effect of being kind. #KindnessMatters
💛 #kindness #bekind #payitforward #mindfulness #mindfulnesspractice #yogaonandoffthemat
Happy New Week!
Hope you all had a nice weekend and enjoyed the gorgeous weather we had!
Here is your invitation to start your week off with mindfulness. Come and join me on Zoom! 🥰
Happy Tuesday friends!
Hope to see ya on the Zoom tonight at 5:30pm! 🧘♀️
My meditation this morning @thichnhathanh
Let us, together, practice calming and easing: Breathing in, I calm myself. Breathing out, I let go.
May your day be filled with calm and ease. 🌼
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Your strength is how calmly, quietly and peacefully you face life. 🌞 This can be a tall order - especially during a pandemic! How do you face life calmly, quietly and peacefully during a pandemic? Quotes like this can be inspiring and I know from my own experience, that they can also be frustrating because for whatever reason, you're not feeling strong. And from there you sink deeper into the mud.
My dharma (dharma means your purpose in life) is to offer support to others so they can find (or rediscover) their strength so they can live their lives feeling safe, at ease and happy. If you're feeling stuck in the mud and want to find your lotus flower, reach out. I'd love to work with you! 🥰
Take a gentle, deep breath in for a count of 4.
Now slowly breathe out for a count of 6, a little longer than your inhalation. Repeat 3 times.
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Start your weekend off with a Yin class at 4pm today and then on Saturday a 9am Mindful Movement and Meditation class!
Join me on Zoom!
Next time you’re feeling stressed out, anxious, lost, worried, sad or just bored… take time to pause and journey through your senses. 🧘🏼♂️
First, notice 5 things that you can see. Look around you and become aware of your environment. Try to pick out something that you don’t usually notice.
Second, notice 4 things you can feel. Bring attention to the things that you’re currently feeling, such as the texture of your clothing or the smooth surface of the table you’re resting your hands on.
Third, notice 3 things that you can hear. Listen for and notice things in the background that you don’t normally notice. It could be the birds chirping outside, the crunch of leaves under foot or an appliance humming in the next room.
Fourth, notice 2 things you can smell. Bring attention to scents that you usually filter out, either pleasant or unpleasant. Catch a whiff of freshly cut grass outside or food cooking in the kitchen.
Finally, notice 1 thing you can taste. Take a sip of a drink, chew gum, or notice the current taste in your mouth.
🌟 In addition to teaching yoga and guiding people in meditation, I’m also a Mindfulness Life Coach… I don’t promote that often enough. So here ya go! If you feel stuck or that your life could use a little more balance and mindfulness, reach out and let’s connect for a complementary consultation to see if we’d be a good fit to work together. 🧘
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Happy Friday!
It’s a rainy day here in Chantilly, VA which has me wanting to stay inside and keep warm. A perfect day for the quiet practice of YIN. Join me on Zoom today at 4pm for a relaxing practice.
Yes, there are plenty of physical health benefits to practicing yin yoga, but there are plenty of mental health ones, too. Below are some of the most popular, from stretching your connective tissue to reducing stress and anxiety
1. Lengthens connective tissue
Think of your fascia like shrink wrap around your muscles and bones. When this connective tissue is underused, it becomes less elastic which can lead to aches and stiffness. “If you gently stretch connective tissue by holding a yin pose for a long time, the body will respond by making them a little longer and stronger—which is exactly what you want,” Paul Grilley (who helped develop Yin Yoga) explains.
2. Increases flexibility
Elastic fascia and mobile joints lead to better flexibility, which is one of the key benefits to a regular yin yoga practice. Because fascia needs at least 120 seconds of sustained stretching to actually affect its elasticity, yin is one of the most effective ways at improving your flexibility and releasing tension in tight spots thanks to its long holds.
3. Boosts your circulation
By breathing into each pose and targeting your deeper tissues and ligaments, you bring more oxygen into your body and to your muscles. This helps increase your blood flow and circulation.
4. Reduces stress levels
That calm you feel after a yin class is very real—studies have found yin yoga to have a significant impact on lowering stress and anxiety and reducing the risk of depression. Plus, it activates your parasympathetic nervous system, which calms your body and slows your heart rate (rather than the autonomic nervous system, which triggers your fight-or-flight response).
How to practice
Because yin yoga is practiced in a non-heated room, it’s easy to do anywhere, anytime. The key is
Have you taken time to pause today and appreciate your breath? Here's your chance. Set your timer to 2 minutes and then just pause and notice your breath. If that felt good... set the timer for 5 minutes. You're worth it. <3
Yay! It’s Yin Friday!! Hope to see ya on the mat today. 🧘🏼♀️💕✌🏼 #yinyoga #mindfulnessyogawithrobyn
Take time to be right here and in the right now. :-)
Mindfulness
Give yourself permission to pause.
Take a deep breath… feel the energy of your body receiving a nourishing cleansing inhale … and then let everything go with the exhale. Closing your eyes and just repeating slow, nourishing breaths a few times. When you’re ready, open your eyes and notice your surroundings…see if you can land the eyes on a few things you’re grateful for. 🧘🏼♀️🙏🏼💕✌🏼
Join me this Saturday 10/2 at 9am EST for Mindful Movement & Meditation and Mondays at Noon for a 20 minute guided Mindfulness Meditation. My class schedule can be found on my website. Link is in my bio. 🧘🏼♀️🙏🏼✌🏼💕
Join me for a guided mindfulness meditation every Monday at Noon starting in October. 🧘🏼♀️ Link in bio 🙏🏼 #mindfulness #mindfulnessmeditation #meditation
