Hey is a copy of the text postings on IG for the original series.
Day 1
2016 Surprise, Yin Resolutions! Rolling out another New to Full moon offering starting today. Happy 1st #newmoon of 2016! Thinking its time for you to get on your #yinresolutionsstarting today. Start with shoelace here, or a crossed leg seat on the earth. Your hips will tell you what is possible. Let this shape embrace the qualities of adaptability and flexibility that are not just body things....they are living practices to help you navigate this world with ease. Let this pose teach you the value of both shifting and knowing when to...but also when to be still and embrace discomfort in the process of change. All things pass, haven't you noticed the days are longer already? Love to hear your yinnie insights from each shape, yin truths need to be shared. Tag up #yinresolutions with your pose thoughts. Be share to rock both sides of this shape for a few minutes each side. Try a pillow under your butt for height if you need or pad under your ankles. Adaptation, you will find a peaceful for it to work.#yogaeverydamnday #yogachallenge#yinyoga #daily #yinsights
Day 2
Day 2 of this 15 day New to Full Moon Offering. #yinresolutions for certain with this pose. Bend one knee and bring the foot somewhere along the opposite inner thigh. Fold forward along the long straight leg and hold for a few minutes. Take this shape as an offering, a Bowing to new beginnings sprouting from the compost of last year. A bow to nature in her honour of cycles and her ability to never hold a grudge. This shape will offer diversity to each form, some will feel it in their lower back, some hamstrings other in the bend leg. Remember yin doesn't have a final outcome or destination of perfection. The shapes are there to wake you up to the beauty of you and the deep call of inner balance and your power to participate in your healing and growth. Like that last series, these images are from our yin training in #Jamaica. We still have a few spots left for our 2016 yin training and retreat, peep my site. #yinnieslikeitslow#stopdropandnap #yinyoga
Day 3
Day 3 of our#yinresolutions is this side body loving shape. Yin is all about the shifting and making the shape work as the medicine that frees your form. For this shape you might add props under the bend or straight leg, or under the elbow. Work to find the lengthening quality of the side body, long holds will change that state of the #fascia. Steady your breath and have#patience. Feel the connections physically between your deep parts and your surface parts and how time changes everything. A #yinyoga quality in a way is both being pulled apart and being part together. Find a balance in your deep knowing and set 2016 in a way that serves your higher callings. #yoga#yogachallenge #doitnow
Day 4
Day 4 of our#yinresolutions. This one is potent but simple. Can be done standing or seated. Interlace your fingers, point up with the index and thumb touching (think mudra) and lengthen up. From the length, arch over to one side. Do your best to relax your shoulders and breath into those side ribs. Change the lean forward or back of your armpit until your side body says 'this is it' stay in this yucky sticky spot! What is #yinmedicine. Going to the places of unknown or discomfort and spend time here. Learn to listen to your body's insights and requests via its language of sensation and recultivate a response and not a reaction. Rethink the ways in which you can free up your form. Spend some time on each side. Grab opposite forearms if the fingers are outta reach. Find the place for your neck where you feel you are letting go of the old tension and drawing new energy and life in. #yoga #yogachallenge #yinyoga#dreadlocks #dreadlockedyogi#dailyoffering
Day 5
Day 5 of these#yinresolutions. We started on the new moon and will complete on the full moon. Join us for new beginnings. Today's offering is #hamstrings versus anything you can use to stretch. #flexible life is subjective, so let go of what you think it should look like and move mindfully into a version that honours where you are right now. Life is a progression and change is constant. Spend time reflecting on the path you have walked as you love up your Hammies. Play with how much your bend your knee, which direction your toes point, your fold or not over your leg. TIME. I have actively practiced#yoga for about 14 years and this space and range of motion as been a decade in the making! Give up on the external appearance of the space and focus on the inner world. These images from a series in #Jamaica last year. A few more spaces left in our #yogaretreat and training. Come! #patience #time #bow#dreadlocks #dreadlockedyogi
Day 6
Yinnies! Less excuses for this one of our #yinresolutions. This one can be done in your chair, on your mat or anywhere really! Take your right ankle to your left knee. If you are on your back, try placing the left foot on the wall, or grab the left thigh. Breathing while feeling will give you the info in your hips to decide if it's more or less sensation that is needed. Stay for some time and feel. You can also do this one sitting in a chair. Commit to small efforts to create change, just a small daily thing will make a massive difference over time #yinyoga #yinsights.
Day 7
Day 7 of your#yinresolutions. This one can be done standing or laying on the ground. Find a place where you can arch into a door frame or try if laying on the ground like a fallen crescent moon. Make sure you do both sides and find space along the ankles to pits. The floor version you would move your upper body over to left and move your ankles over to the left, making a shape for the whole side body. Try to shift into a shape where you feel more along ribs and full side body. Free your lungs and organs with side body space which only comes from time. This shape will remind you to flex with life, bend so you don't break!!#yinyoga #dailydose #doitnow
Day 8
Hello Saturday, stop and squat. For the #yinresolutions to make change we have to do the things that are uncomfortable on the path to transformation. This one can be done against a wall, leaning or your feet on the wall with you on your back. You can decide how wide or narrow your feet are. Add a prop under your butt as a stool if it's hard on the knees. Breath deeply and stay for 2 minutes. Making spacing is like clearing mental, emotional and physical debris, it's time to tidy up. #letgo #release #yinyoga#yoga #yogachallenge
Day 9
Hey rainy Sunday. Try this one to brighten up the day. This lunge variation will give you some side space to sunny up the day. Maybe pad your back knee in this one, your could even bend your elbow and hold the back of your head. Feet hips distance apart for a solid structure, front knee over front ankle and try! Yin has no solid rules of form as its in response to your feelings, mobility and needs. Trust yourself! Bless up this image from my fav hang in #Jamaica. You coming with us? Few more spots left in our training and retreat. #yoga #yogachallenge#dreadlocks #dreadlockedyogi
Day 10
Ahoy Yin Lovers! Today's#yinresolutions offering is a lotus or a cross legged seat. Sit today, find stillness and in a world of moving, shifting and swinging, be still! Spend at good handful of minutes on one side and then reverse the cross of the legs and spend time on the other side. Notice, take this time to travel the breathe around every corner of the body. Sit on a pillow to tilt your pelvis forward if your hips are tight, be mindful of your knees and let go of the things that no longer serve you. Each out breath will release a thought or judgement, like mind cleaning. Find even a moment of clarity. Remember who you really are. #meditation #yoga #yinyoga.
Day 11
This #yinyoga will sort you out! #yinresolutions for the hip's win. Feet together and knees wide. I have my feet lifted here for my open hips but you might need to add something under your thighs for less. Are bodies are all so very different. Honouring our mobility and flexibility is a metaphor to honour where we are in this moment. Each person is opening and progressing on this life path. Stay blessed today and I hope #MLK day inspired you yesterday to live today differently. Remember he said you gotta take the first steps before you even see the staircase.#yoga #yogachallenge #doitnow
Day 12
This wall squat for#yinyoga loving is excellent and adaptable medicine for the#yinresolutions. Doesn't matter high or low with feet or wider or more narrow. Adapt to make it work for you. Yin is more about the alliance you are building with you and your knowing, it's not about the look of the shape. Settle into your intuition And deep listening so you can be inspired to live the lessons of your yoga practice.
Day 13:
Hello day, Bowing to you! It's forward fold for our #yinresolutions to humble out on this pose. Let go of the need to fold over the legs fully. A good rule to remember in yin is it doesn't matter what it looks like, let the shapes guide you. Let go of all these ideas of right and wrong and remember all bodies move and look different. Their beauty is in your uniqueness and take this moment to embrace that. Stay in this shape for many minutes to really marinate. #yinyoga
Day 14:
This one is simple magic. Extend your legs long and lift your chest up as you prop on your forearms. Relax the back body whole breathing into your belly in a steady way. As you exhale, do your best to relax your tension as a metaphor of letting go. Surrender your attachments to who you think you are, so you allow yourself to be who you are slowing becoming. #yinresolutions #yinyoga
Day 15:
Woot! Happy 15 day journey from new to full moon, the first full moon of 2016! This last shape is one to really stir the pot to help liberate the things that don't serve you. In this shape, give yourself permission to growl and groan, swear if you want to! Instead of pushing down the big things that come up, Let them OUT! Give permission to your experiences to be the beautiful compost for this year's growth. Modify this shape by giving height to your hips or take a cross legged seat as an option. Do your best, but let stillness be the boss. #yinyoga love to you all!
