Reverse Anjali Mudra

Reverse Anjali Mudra

Reverse Anjali Mudra is a way of honoring and expressing your inner and high self by a simple gesture and offering of your thoughts. The joining together of the palms is said to provide connection between the right and left hemispheres of the brain and represents unification.

This posture increases flexibility and strength of your upper back while teaching your body the internal rotation of the arm. The mudra can bring about a heightened awareness and a calming of the mind. Performing anjali mudra is an honouring of both the self and the other as the gesture acknowledges the divinity of both practitioner and recipient

Camel Posture (Ustrasana)

Camel Pose with red satin corset, leather arm binder, and belts

Camel Pose, and back bends like it, can be physically challenging and beneficial. Emotionally, they can create a sense of vulnerability we usually shy away from. Ustrasana, like a camel journeying through the Sahara, requires stamina, endurance, and a commitment to inner awareness.

Camel Pose stretches the front of the body including the chest, abdomen, and quadriceps. It improves spinal mobility as much of the day you are likely to be sitting or slouching and bending your spine forward.

This pose is energizing and thus helps to reduce fatigue, stress and anxiety. Practicing can sometimes bring an emotional response because the heart and throat centers are often protected by poor posture and slouching.

Sometimes Ustrasana is known as the heart opening pose and because of this it is important to stay calm, centred and very aware of your feelings and emotions when practising. It is credited with increased creativity and the relief of anxiety and stress.

Tree Pose (Vriksasana)

Modified Upward Salute Pose enhances the intensity and focus of the stretching

Tree Pose or Vriksasana is the Sanskrit name comes from the words vrksa meaning tree, and asana meaning pose. The Tree Pose strengthens and tones the leg muscles, ankles and feet as well as the groin, inner thigh.

If it is too difficult to straighten your arms above your head, then you can use a leather belt. Make a loop with the belt and slide it around your arms right above the elbow joints. Tighten the belt so that your arms cannot move further than shoulder-width apart from each other. Then lift your arms above your head.

Virasana (Hero) vs Vajrasana (Thunderbolt)

Vajrasana w/ Uttarabodhi Mudra
Thunderbolt Posture w/ Uttarabodhi Mudra

Vajrasana (thunderbolt) is one of the easiest yoga postures to perform and it can be done by anyone without adding stress to other parts of the body.  This posture can be adapted many ways and can even be performed reclined.

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Not having a boyfriend or Dom or Daddy means filling my evenings with my favorite hobbies. So I’ve been writing and reading and going for long walks. It also means a boring blog (sorry folks) and yoga. LOTS of yoga. It feels as if I’m walking around with a big, throbbing neon thought bubble over my head.

Not having a boyfriend or Dom or Daddy means filling my evenings with my favorite hobbies. So I've been writing and reading and going for long walks. It also means a boring blog (sorry folks) and yoga. LOTS of yoga. It feels as if I'm walking around with a big, throbbing neon thought bubble over my head. ...read more  

Not having a boyfriend or Dom or Daddy means filling my evenings with my favorite hobbies. So I’ve been writing and reading and going for long walks. It also means a boring blog (sorry folks) and yoga. LOTS of yoga. It feels as if I’m walking around with a big, throbbing neon thought bubble over my head.

Not having a boyfriend or Dom or Daddy means filling my evenings with my favorite hobbies. So I’ve been writing and reading and going for long walks. It also means a boring blog (sorry folks) and yoga. LOTS of yoga. It feels as if I’m walking around with a big, throbbing neon thought bubble over my head. ...read more