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#BPYCaliChallenge Day 5. Back bend - What does "BE STILL AND KNOW” mean to you? ❣️ . . ✨ It means "this too shall pass." That inner-calm comes not from wishing for what was in the past or anticipating what lies ahead, instead it's being in the present moment and noticing all the things going right and working in my world, right now. ✨ Much easier to write than practice. 🤪 I miss how we used to teach and practice hot yoga packed mat to mat. I wonder when I'll go back to my hometown to see my folks where this #upwarddog pic was taken. A deep breath connects me to presence, and shifts me from worrier to warrior. 🧘🏾♀️ When I'm still and listen, I trust and know everything is already okay...NOW. 🙏🏽. . 💥 AND, I also know this week's yoga challenge has been a gift! The daily inquiry work has invited a welcome sense of #connection, #grounding and #presence. #thankyou #grateful #svadhyaya #namaste . . ✨✨✨ #yogaChallenge #BPYCaliChallenge #whybaptisteyoga May 18-22 Join us in our first Baptiste California Instagram challenge created to build community and connection even though we are apart! Each day every participant will post a picture from the list below and answer the correlating inquiry prompt. Thanks to all the hosts!! @baptistepoweryogasf @warrioryogaturlock @spotteddogyoga_folsom @powerofyourom @baptistepoweryogasv @soulyogasr @baptistepoweryogasandiego @wepoweryoga @brightheartyogastudio • • —————————————— Pose List and Inquiry Prompts: Day 1. Balancing Pose - How is “relax with what is” showing up for you lately? Day 2. Warrior Variation - Where in life can you drop what you know? Day 3. Hip Opener - When do you know that it's time to step out of your comfort zone? Day 4. Inversion - What helps you shift your vision? Day 5. Back bend - What does “be still and know” mean to you? . #backbend #heartopener #urdhvamukhasvanasana #paddleboardyoga #meditation #trust #presentmoment #everythingisalreadyokay #tgif #fridayvibes #loveportangeles #lakecrescent #olympicpeninsula #portangeles #pnwgirl @alderstreetretreat#BPYCaliChallenge Day 4. Inversion - What helps you SHIFT YOUR VISION? ❣️ . . ✨ A wake up call through a jarring incident, like when our tire blew out while driving a few weeks ago, will quickly shift my focus to what matters the most and, bring clarity to shift my vision AWAY from what SEEMED important. When our family was in the car, debating about where to hike, a jolting tire blowout put a halt to our dispute. We shifted to gratitude that we were safe and even close to an exit where a tire shop was open just two minutes off the freeway. #grateful #blessed Our vision shifted away from the disagreement, which we no longer cared about or even remembered why we were bickering! #Yoga, #meditation, mindful breathing, and #drishti in the present moment also help me shift my vision. Paying attention to my body sensations will alert me if I need to shift my vision. When my solar plexus and eyes feel tight, breath uneven and emotions off-center (either seeing red, seething with irritation -or- the opposite, feeling unmotivated, numbed out, unable to get out of bed), I recognize it's time for a shift, to #disruptthedrift ❣️ Mindfulness, paying attention to body, mind, and breath, that helps me shift my vision. 🤓🙏🏽 #namaste . . ✨✨✨ #yogaChallenge #BPYCaliChallenge #whybaptisteyoga May 18-22 Join us in our first Baptiste California Instagram challenge created to build community and connection even though we are apart! Each day every participant will post a picture from the list below and answer the correlating inquiry prompt. Hosts: @baptistepoweryogasf @warrioryogaturlock @spotteddogyoga_folsom @powerofyourom @baptistepoweryogasv @soulyogasr @baptistepoweryogasandiego @wepoweryoga @brightheartyogastudio —————————————— Pose List and Inquiry Prompts: Day 1. Balancing Pose - How is “relax with what is” showing up for you lately? Day 2. Warrior Variation - Where in life can you drop what you know? Day 3. Hip Opener - When do you know that it's time to step out of your comfort zone? Day 4. Inversion - What helps you shift your vision? Day 5. Back bend - What does “be still and know” mean to you? . #inversions #getupsidedown #downwarddog #handstand#BPYCaliChallenge Day 3. Hip Opener - When do you know that it's TIME TO STEP OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE? ❣️ . . ✨ My hips don't lie...they take me out of my comfort zone because my ego can't stand that I'm uncomfortable in "and not good at" #hipopeners . All of the pigeons, lizards, cow-faced pose, compass pose (#fuggedaboutit 🤪!) - my lie shows up "I suck at yoga." 🤦🏽♀️ When ego or fear steer my decisions, and keep me from an opportunity to move from stuck to unstuck, that's when it's time to move out of my comfort zone. Is it true my hips are tight? Yes, and no. Initially, I might SEEM tight AND with time to stay, breathe, and receive, my body allows an opening, through letting go of needing to look like I've got my shit together. 🙏🏽 #letthatshitgo #namaste . . ✨✨✨ "Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together." ~ #BKSIyengar . . ✨✨✨ #yogaChallenge #BPYCaliChallenge #whybaptisteyoga May 18-22 Join us in our first Baptiste California Instagram challenge created to build community and connection even though we are apart! Each day every participant will post a picture from the list below and answer the correlating inquiry prompt. Hosts: @baptistepoweryogasf @warrioryogaturlock @spotteddogyoga_folsom @powerofyourom @baptistepoweryogasv @soulyogasr @baptistepoweryogasandiego @wepoweryoga @brightheartyogastudio • • —————————————— Pose List and Inquiry Prompts: Day 1. Balancing Pose - How is “relax with what is” showing up for you lately? Day 2. Warrior Variation - Where in life can you drop what you know? Day 3. Hip Opener - When do you know that it's time to step out of your comfort zone? Day 4. Inversion - What helps you shift your vision? Day 5. Back bend - What does “be still and know” mean to you? How to play: 1. Follow all hosts 2. Follow each day's pose by posting a photo or vid on your feed - be sure to tag #bpycalichallenge and all of the hosts in each post! 3. Help us spread the word by re-posting this flyer and by tagging some friends to play along 4. Spread love and encourage other participants and HAVE FUN! #yogaeverydamnday #whybaptisteyoga#BPYCaliChallenge Day 2. Warrior Variation - Where in life can you DROP WHAT YOU KNOW? ❣️ . . ✨ I can drop anywhere I think I'm so right, I make others wrong. 🤦🏽♀️Loading the dishwasher - scrub the dishes before you load? Put utensils up or down? (I have strong opinions here!🙈🤪) Being opinionated isn't right or wrong. When I am attached to my truth so firmly that a rigidity and closed-mindedness creates an energetic posture of "us vs them", that's when I need to drop what I know. To be in relation with others with compassion and empathy is possible when my mind is flexible and my heart tender. It's a challenge for me, since my spicy, fiery, passionate, latina nature can come across as condescending and feel like an energetic shove. #imsorry Ugh, that's when I really need to drop what I know! 🙏🏽 #namaste . . ✨✨✨ "We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness." - #ThichNhatHanh . . ✨✨✨ #yogaChallenge #BPYCaliChallenge #whybaptisteyoga May 18-22 Join us in our first Baptiste California Instagram challenge created to build community and connection even though we are apart! Each day every participant will post a picture from the list below and answer the correlating inquiry prompt. Hosts: @baptistepoweryogasf @warrioryogaturlock @spotteddogyoga_folsom @powerofyourom @baptistepoweryogasv @soulyogasr @baptistepoweryogasandiego @wepoweryoga @brightheartyogastudio • • —————————————— Pose List and Inquiry Prompts: Day 1. Balancing Pose - How is “relax with what is” showing up for you lately? Day 2. Warrior Variation - Where in life can you drop what you know? Day 3. Hip Opener - When do you know that it's time to step out of your comfort zone? Day 4. Inversion - What helps you shift your vision? Day 5. Back bend - What does “be still and know” mean to you? How to play: 1. Follow all hosts 2. Follow each day's pose by posting a photo or vid on your feed - be sure to tag #bpycalichallenge and all of the hosts in each post! 3. Help us spread the word by re-posting this flyer and by tagging some friends to play along 4. Spread love and encourage other participants and HAVE FUN! #crescentwarrior #anjaneyasana #yogaeverydamnday #whybaptisteyoga#quoteoftheday#BPYCaliChallenge Day 1. Balancing Pose - How is “RELAX WITH WHAT IS” showing up for you lately? ❣️ . . . ✨ When I relax with what is, #breathe, set my #drishti, and pull into midline, I experience the calm and the grounding I need so much right now. It would've been easier for me to post one of my go to balance poses like half moon or crow pose and instead I played in #eightlimbpose #astavakrasana and asked myself "why not?!" 🤪 It felt a little clunky and messy at first then when I literally leaned into the space of uncertainty, I thumped onto the floor. 🤣 I reset, tried again, focused my eyes, anchored to my breath, hugged into midline, relaxed with what is, then BOOM! 💥Balance & ease.🙏🏽 When I relax with what is, I shift from impossible to possible, from struggle to play. And, I'm a #hellayes for that!! 🤪🙏🏽😍 #namaste #grateful #possibility . . . ✨✨✨ #yogaChallenge #BPYCaliChallenge #whybaptisteyoga May 18-22 Join us in our first Baptiste California Instagram challenge created to build community and connection even though we are apart! Each day every participant will post a picture from the list below and answer the correlating inquiry prompt. Hosts: @baptistepoweryogasf @warrioryogaturlock @spotteddogyoga_folsom @powerofyourom @baptistepoweryogasv @soulyogasr @baptistepoweryogasandiego @wepoweryoga @brightheartyogastudio • • —————————————— Pose List and Inquiry Prompts: Day 1. Balancing Pose - How is “relax with what is” showing up for you lately? Day 2. Warrior Variation - Where in life can you drop what you know? Day 3. Hip Opener - When do you know that it's time to step out of your comfort zone? Day 4. Inversion - What helps you shift your vision? Day 5. Back bend - What does “be still and know” mean to you? How to play: 1. Follow all hosts 2. Follow each day's pose by posting a photo or vid on your feed - be sure to tag #bpycalichallenge and all of the hosts in each post! 3. Help us spread the word by re-posting this flyer and by tagging some friends to play along 4. Spread love and encourage other participants and HAVE FUN! #balance #armbalance #relaxwithwhatis #yogaeverydamnday #fitover55 #mondaymotivation #positivevibesI'll rise up I'll rise like the day I'll rise up I'll rise unafraid I'll rise up And I'll do it a thousand times again And I'll rise up High like the waves I'll rise up In spite of the ache I'll rise up And I'll do it a thousands times again . ❣️❣️❣️ ~ Andra Day . ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Dancer: @laurenaureus Photo credit: @rachelnevillephoto . . #sacredsunday #riseup #fly #wecandothis #hanginthere #selfcare #selflove #yoga #meditate #pray #breathe #inspiration #beautiful #dancer #angel #wings #quoteoftheday #andraday #amazing #photographyislife #whatififallohbutmydarlingwhatifyoufly
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Day Thirteen SFY Mindful May Challenge – #balance Warrior III with eagle arms (Marin Headlands, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA)
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May 18, 2015
Tagged balance, bay area, flexibility, garudasana, golden gate bridge, instagram challenge, marin headlands, mindfulness challenge, nikon d7000, photography, san francisco, sfy mindful may challenge, SFYMindfulMay, shoulder opener, shoulders, spiritual fitness, spirituality, spiritually fit yoga, stretch, warrior 3 pose, warrior 3 with eagle arms, yoga
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Day Twelve SFY Mindful May Challenge – Supported shoulder and upper back opener on a bolster
Day 12 #SFYMindfulMay #upperback – If you’re experiencing stiffness or pain in your shoulders in yoga poses such as child’s pose (#balasana) or downward dog (#adhomukhasvanasana), in addition to opening your shoulders with the poses with straps I posted earlier, … Continue reading
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Tagged backbend, flexibility, foam roller, helping frozen shoulder, instagram challenge, mindfulness challenge, nikon d7000, photography, sfy mindful may challenge, SFYMindfulMay, shoulder opener, shoulders, spiritual fitness, spirituality, spiritually fit yoga, stretch, thoracic spine, upper back release, yoga, yoga with props
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Day Ten SFY Mindful May Challenge – Shoulder and QL (Quadratus Lumborum) stretch #SFYMindfulMay
Day 10 – On your knees with a cushion, or sitting in a chair, start holding a strap wider than your shoulders above your head, reach up from your tailbone with a long spine and neutral pelvis, then lean to … Continue reading
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Tagged flexibility, helping frozen shoulder, how to stretch you QL, how to stretch your quadratus lumborum, instagram challenge, mindfulness challenge, nikon d7000, photography, sfy mindful may challenge, SFYMindfulMay, shoulder opener, shoulders, spiritual fitness, spirituality, spiritually fit yoga, stretch, yoga, yoga dog, yoga with pets
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Day Nine SFY Mindful May Challenge – Prasarita with shoulder opener #SFYMindfulMay
Day 9 – Start standing in prasarita, wide-legged foward fold, and clasp your hands behind your back or grab a strap, gently pulling the strap apart about shoulder width. Breathe your heart open, shoulders down, root down into your tadasana … Continue reading
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Tagged flexibility, helping frozen shoulder, instagram challenge, mindfulness challenge, nikon d7000, outdoor yoga, photography, prasarita, sfy mindful may challenge, SFYMindfulMay, shoulder opener, shoulders, spiritual fitness, spirituality, spiritually fit yoga, stretch, yoga, yoga dog, yoga with pets
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Day Five SFY Mindful May Challenge – Shoulder opener with a strap
Day 5 – grab a strap, gently pulling the strap apart to create some tension as you bring the strap behind your back. Breathe through the sticky spots as you stretch through your shoulder joints. Softly engage your core and … Continue reading
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Tagged flexibility, helping frozen shoulder, instagram challenge, mindfulness challenge, nikon d7000, outdoor yoga, photography, sfy mindful may challenge, SFYMindfulMay, shoulder opener, shoulders, spiritual fitness, spirituality, spiritually fit yoga, stretch, yoga, yoga dog
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