Yoga with Sabrina

What an amazing trip to the Japanese countryside. I had no idea this existed! So unspoilt and breathtakingly beautiful. Totally switched off from my London life 😄

What is your ‘secret’ holiday spot ? 😍

50th plus a PB. Big thank you for the support to my hubby and my running team 🏃🏼‍♀️💃🏽🍾

I’m so in love with downward dog splits at the moment. Weaving them in all the time with the suns and B series. Now that I am working long hours at the desk again, it really helps my hanstrings to warm up properly and stay supple!

Really happy to be subbing a class Next Saturday 9.30-11am!!
We will definitely be doing downdog splits .. and much much more !! Come and join us ❤️

‘Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind’ (~ Bernard M. Baruch)

I’ve only been back at work again for two months but have started to feel it already ! 😢 One thing I noticed immediately was how much wearing high heels impacted on my calves (sooo tight) and my lower back. The longer hours sitting arent helping that either. So I’m trying to dig into what I learned over the past couple of years on my yoga journey and help my body recover more qu**ky: lots of abs like elbow to knee to support the lower back, taking it easier on abckbends and focussing more on mini backbends that strengthen rather than bending as much as possible, and twists that feel sooo good after a long day at the desk. And finally chest opener and archer for the shoulders. I also love seated sidebend in shoelace at the moment.
And during this mini break to Hamburg I will take it easy 😊

Forrestyoga doesnt just strengthen the abs, it teaches how to connect deeply into belly and pelvis. Since I learned how to expand the breath into the hidden areas of my core, my period pain is gone !

The journey continues...
I used to be obsessed with inversions and getting better at forarmbalance, handstand etc but didn’t have a major breakthrough and got quite frustrated with it. So I stopped doing them for a while. Not having practiced any inversions in my yoga recently, I expected it to be awful being back at it today. But it was actually pretty good and a lot of fun too.
I’ve noticed something similar before: that I wasnt advancing at something by going for it every day and obsessing over it but as soon as I eased off a bit I actually made some progress! There’s a lesson here I reckon, friends 😉

‘Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life—you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion.’ (~ Ray Dalio, Principles)

As I am transitioning from the yoga world back to the finance world I am currently immersing myself in ‘s book ‘principles’. Yoga (meditation, mindfulness etc) has really changed my life in the past couple of years and it is my wish to take as much of the techniques and lessons learnt with me back into the world of finance. Ray - who is the founder of the biggest and most successful hedge fund in the world- is a strong believer in truthtelling, finding your purpose, making meaningful connections and being very frank with oneself to achieve maximum potential. It sounds a lot like Ana Forrest’s teachings (evolve or die’) and draws a path for me for how to take the most possible of my last chapter with me into the next. 🙏🏻💕

My current favourite way to practice ; inspired by => turn hands around so the fingertips point back towards you and gently start pressing fingers and then palms into floor (or grass in this instance 😊) to give wrists and inner arms a delicious stretch 😋

Beautiful morning practice in dad’s garden feeling the breeze on my skin and working into hips and hamstrings.
Have a lovely Sunday everyone ! 💝