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Jul
28

Get the Kids Saluting the Sun… The Sundance!

My seven-year-old loves dance, she loves music and she jumps at the chance to practice yoga with me.

So, without a doubt when I came across this lively combination that introduces the Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskara) to little ones I put it to her for review. She’s on the older side for this presentation, as, like I said, she’s going on seventeen seven and she’s already pretty familiar with both Sun Salutes, but even despite her previous experience, she still found this a lot of fun and said she “would toooootally do this all the time!”

Certainly for tots who are a little younger, this is sure to be a winner!

The Sun Dance Kids Yoga/Music Video by Bari Koral Family Rock Band

Category: Blog, health, instruction, Kids, Postures, yoga  One Comment
Jun
08

Shake, Shake, Shake! Utkatasana…

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Chris Carter, Artist

This is a posture I really do like…  oh yes.  In fact, it’s a posture I play with a little to give the old thighs something to really scream about!  As I near the end of my series of Sun Salutation A, I’m already anticipating the bliss in the delicious agony that is Powerful Pose… or to some, Awkward Chair Pose.

It’s a posture that challenges your focus.  Not unlike other postures, there’s a lot going on at once.  Utkatasana requires- no, demands- attention to everything happening in your body, with muscles calling out in unison, in synchronistic pleasure and pain, from nearly head to toe.

I really couldn’t describe it any better than the lovely Shiva Rea does here, so I’ll let her do the honours of offering the posture step-by-step.  I’ve included a little video supplement too…

Credit for watercolour yoga imagery goes with thanks to Chris Carter, watercolour and ink artist.

Category: Postures, Practice, strength  2 Comments