Hi everyone!
Hope all of your summer is going well. I can’t believe that August is already coming to an end.
August went by in a flash….! My online yoga lessons were good — got to do it at least once a week — and my weekly lessons were going also well despite the dreadful heat we had few weeks back. It still was just great to be outside and enjoy the fresh breeze as we took time to hear our breaths.
We had some time to take a short trip for a week to just “enjoy” some family time outside of our normal-quarantine-day-to-day life.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I am totally happy and enjoying my daily life now — the whole COVID-19 situation has given me more time with family and our little one so I am blessed for that. But it was very special to take a short trip where I didn’t have to do any chores or things around the house and just got to ENJOY my time. Enjoyed some daily espressos (we’ve already found one cafe that we went EVERYDAY), walked over 20,000 steps everyday, the weather was awesome.
Here is another tip for boosting your Immune System:
:: Tree Pose Vrksasana ::
On our short vacation, I wanted to do my crow pose somewhere famous in Potsdam. So….. BAAAAM here it is.
Time to strengthen your arms and abs: Crow pose (Kakasana) – try to fine focus and some strength with this arm balancing pose.
Crow pose (Kakasana) : core and ab strengthener
Benefits: The crow pose/ crane (if the arms are extended) can help with improving your focus, stretches your glutes, quads (front of the thighs), and your wrist (as you are pressing the ground — the palm side of your wrist. ). This is a great way to strengthen your core muscle, upper back, chest, and your hip flexors. Arms, shoulders, forearms, and back of the wrists would get a great strengthening workout here!
Be careful if you have some history of lower back pain, or injury or weak writs. Also, if you are in your second and third trimester of your pregnancy, please don’t do this pose. 😉
How to get into your Crow pose:
- Start by standing in a mountain pose with the feet hips width apart, parallel to one another.
- Come in to a squat with a long exhale with the feet close together but knees wide apart.
- Tilt the torso forward so that the shoulders fit between the knees
- Place the hands on the floor shoulder distance apart and 15cm~ ahead of the feet
- Slowly start to come high on the toes and shift forward until the elbows stack over the wrists
- Keep reaching the chest forward, start to lift the heels towards the buttocks.
- Knees can either grip the outer shoulders or balance on the triceps
- Press the arms as straight as possible while bringing the feet and buttocks towards each other
- See if you can hold for 5-10 breaths. (then release the feet to the floor and rest or come into Chaturanga if you want some more of a workout.)
*Keep in mind that you can do it one foot at a time and keep practicing. And take some time and patience to find this focus. As you’re tilting forward and you feel like you’re falling forward, that’s the point where you’ll find that “spot“.
Namaste <3 Hugs!
*Keep your jaw soft and smile <3*