Yoga at Rainbow

Wednesday 21 June is International Day of Yoga and as part of our celebrations for the day we're inviting you to share your pictures of Ardha Chandrasana (half moon pose). Join in by sharing yours using - with or without props!

Benefits of this pose:
⭐️ Rotates and flexes the vertebral joints, keeping the spinal muscles supple
⭐️ Tones the lumbar and sacral spine, relieving backache
⭐️ Corrects misalignment of the shoulders
⭐️ Helps relieve sciatica
⭐️ Improves circulation in the feet
⭐️ Relieves gastritis and acidity
⭐️ Corrects a pr*****ed uterus

Cautions:
Do not practise this asana if you have stress-related headaches, migraine, eye strain, varicose veins, diarrhoea, insomnia, or chronic fatigue syndrome. Avoid this pose if you are tired. If you have hypertension, do not look up at your raised arm. Look straight ahead.

- from Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health by B.K.S. Iyengar

As always if a pose is new to you, it's best to find a certified teacher who can help you to practice safely and correctly - find your local teacher on our website.

"Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit."

B.K.S. Iyengar

~ Choices ~

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you, as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

"Look how he abused me and hurt me, how he threw me down and robbed me." Live with such thoughts and you live in hate. Abandon such thoughts, and live in love.

In this world hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible.

~ Buddha ~
The Dhammapada

The beginning of humility is to say, "I know nothing, even about the first pose"
~BKS Iyengar

Extreme photo ... 99% could never do this ... but say say, "I know nothing" is always a good start

The beginning of humility is to say, "I know nothing, even about the first pose"
~BKS Iyengar

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