Yoga for Joy and Peace

Description

When: Saturday, January 27, 2024 from 8 - 9 AM
Where: Palisades Yoga Studio
With: Rayna Harris and Jashua Denis
Key Actions: Open Your Heart
Spinal Effects: Enlivening, Axial Extension
Theme: Yoga for Joy and Peace

Description: This 60 minutes yoga class begins with joyful meditation, moves through sun salutation variatins, and ends with restorative practice centered around inner peace, relaxation, happiness. Just as the sun rises an sets each day, this full body practice will guide you through a series reclined, standing, revoled, and inverted poses that while enliven your body, mind, and spirity. Here, we emphaize poses and modificaitons of poses that focus on opening the heart to joy and peace.

Asanas

Supine Stretch

Floor Flow

Half Salutation with a Twist

Sun Salutation with Low Lunge

Sun Salutation with Warrior I

Danding Warrior II and Flying Warrior III

Peaceful Mountain Asana

Shoulder Stretching and Strengthening

Hip and Heart Opening

Twisted Lizzard and Peaceful Pigeon Poses

Bridges and Plows

Śavāsana and Meditation

Asana Outline

Śavāsana

Bananasana (Reclined Crescent Moon) → Jathara Parivartanasana (Reclined Twist) → Viparita Karani (Legs Up)

Cat Cow Rolls → Striking Cobra → Plank to Down Dog

Tadasana → Urdhva Hastasana → Standing Forward Fold → Forward Fold with Twist

Moutain Pose → Forward Fold → Forward Fold Hang

Plank Pose → Sphinx Pose → Prone Shoulder Stretch

Child’s Pose → Malasana → Low Lunge → Half Splits

Lizard Lunge → Lizard Twist → Plank → Downward Dog → Three legged dog → Pigeon Pose

Child’s pose → Malasana → Figure Four Pose → Figure Four Twist → Bridge Pose → Shoulder Stand → Plough Pose → Happy Baby

Śavāsana

Music