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2 weeks agoHolidays Got You Stressed? You Need These 5 Calming Tools.
Use yoga-based breathing, intention-setting, and brief pauses to reduce holiday stress and maintain presence.
Okay, welcome everybody. You can tell it's late summer. Nice to see you all. So, I think most of you, maybe almost everyone has been here before, so you know the drill. We're going to do an hour-long meditation, a guided meditation, and then after that I'll say some stuff and then you guys will maybe have comments or reports or things you want to say, or maybe ask a question.
This 10-minute morning yoga practice is a mix of strengthening, stretching, balancing, and breathing. Because it's more of a strength-based practice, it requires a more than a little effort from you first thing in the morning. And because it's a short practice, it's a little fast-paced to fit a lot into 10 minutes. It includes some dynamic movement and playful corework along with a standing sequence that stretches and strengthens you in all the ways you need.
Rising less than 12 hours after the sun shifts into earthy Virgo, this lunation kicks off the final month of summer with the motivating vibe of new beginnings to come. This is actually the first of two back-to-back new moons happening in Virgo this summer - the latter of which will double as a solar eclipse. The cosmos are giving all zodiac signs twice the opportunity to work with this clarifying and clear-minded energy,