Luna Yoga

Balance is not something we find. Balance is something we create. Push and pull. Ebb and flow. Creating balance makes us grow. Balancing on tiptoes with eyes wide open because in case you were wondering it ain’t easy (at least not for this girl).


📆Feb. 19-26, 2024

Challenging yourself by growing your yoga practice not only brings new energy to your practice but also allows you to continue exploring what works for you. Pushing your limits on the mat is nourishing for both your body and mind, and you will find it applies to many other areas of your life.

🖤Pose Line-Up :
Day 1: Challenge your flexibility✔️
Day 2: Challenge your balance✔️
Day 3: Challenge your core
Day 4: Challenge your hip stability
Day 5: Challenge your arm strength
Day 6: Challenge your shoulder flexibility
Day 7: Challenge your inner strength- meditative/restorative pose
Day 8: Challenge yourself- Yogi’s choice

🖤Hosts:





🖤Sponsors:
($100 gift card)
(6 month subscription)

🖤NEW CHALLENGE ANNOUNCEMENT🖤


📆Feb. 19-26, 2024

Challenging yourself by growing your yoga practice not only brings new energy to your practice but also allows you to continue exploring what works for you. Pushing your limits on the mat is nourishing for both your body and mind, and you will find it applies to many other areas of your life.

Join us for the next eight days as we challenge ourselves by expanding our practice and take pleasure in the small wins along the way!

🖤Pose Line-Up :
Day 1: Challenge your flexibility
Day 2: Challenge your balance
Day 3: Challenge your core
Day 4: Challenge your hip stability
Day 5: Challenge your arm strength
Day 6: Challenge your shoulder flexibility
Day 7: Challenge your inner strength- meditative/restorative pose
Day 8: Challenge yourself- Yogi’s choice

🖤Hosts:





🖤Sponsors:
($100 gift card)
(6 month subscription)

🖤How to be eligible for a prize:
1. Follow all hosts and sponsors.
2. Like and repost this post. Tag some friends to play along too!
3. Post daily tagging all hosts and sponsors using on your posts.
4. Keep your profile on public so we can see your posts.
5. Share the love and support each other!

Taking it to the wall for a gentle fold. Activating some deep 360 diaphragmatic breathing to make space in the low back as I welcome some deep stretching in the hamstrings.

(Jan 15-22)

The wall is an amazing yoga prop but it is often associated with modifications or not being able to do a pose without it. In this challenge we want to embrace the fact that using the wall can and should be the end result! Join us for 8 days of practicing/posing at the wall!

At the Wall:
1. Warmup at the wall✔️
2. Inversion at the wall✔️
3. Splits at the wall ✔️
4. Standing balance at the wall✔️
5. Backbend at the wall✔️
6. Mobility at the wall✔️
7. Core at the wall✔️
8. Show us how else you can use the wall✔️

Hosts:






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Backbends! What can I say? I have definitely learned patience and humility from the practice of backbends. I personally do not have a lot of mobility in my spine. That is my anatomical makeup and that’s ok. So here I am practicing embodied scapula humeral function. I am getting a nice stretch in the thoracic spine while the scapula engage in upward rotation.

(Jan 15-22)

The wall is an amazing yoga prop but it is often associated with modifications or not being able to do a pose without it. In this challenge we want to embrace the fact that using the wall can and should be the end result! Join us for 8 days of practicing/posing at the wall!

At the Wall:
1. Warmup at the wall✔️
2. Inversion at the wall✔️
3. Splits at the wall✔️
4. Standing balance at the wall✔️
5. Backbend at the wall✔️
6. Mobility at the wall
7. Core at the wall
8. Show us how else you can use the wall!

Hosts:






Made possible by

Accessing ease through mindfulness. Practicing embodiment with functional breath allows me to have safer entry into this fold. Engaging the abdominal wall allows for support of the spine and less strain on the hamstring.

(Jan 15-22)

The wall is an amazing yoga prop but it is often associated with modifications or not being able to do a pose without it. In this challenge we want to embrace the fact that using the wall can and should be the end result! Join us for 8 days of practicing/posing at the wall!

At the Wall:
1. Warmup at the wall✔️
2. Inversion at the wall✔️
3. Splits at the wall✔️
4. Standing balance at the wall✔️
5. Backbend at the wall
6. Mobility at the wall
7. Core at the wall
8. Show us how else you can use the wall!

Hosts:






Made possible by

Splits practice at the wall for that extra support. Bringing attention and awareness to activation of the abdominal wall and external rotation of the back leg allows for protection on the front hamstring.

I find it fascinating how human anatomy is different for every human being. Left legged splits are my friend, right not so much and touch down in middle splits well that’s dreaming.

I have learned that non attachment in yoga is such a large part of mindfulness practice and wouldn’t you know it makes me so much more thankful for this wonderful body I am in.

How about you, how do you practice mindfulness?

(Jan 15-22)

The wall is an amazing yoga prop but it is often associated with modifications or not being able to do a pose without it. In this challenge we want to embrace the fact that using the wall can and should be the end result! Join us for 8 days of practicing/posing at the wall!

At the Wall:
1. Warmup at the wall✔️
2. Inversion at the wall✔️
3. Splits at the wall✔️
4. Standing balance at the wall
5. Backbend at the wall
6. Mobility at the wall
7. Core at the wall
8. Show us how else you can use the wall!

Hosts:






Made possible by

Do you have tight hip flexors? Often times throughout our daily routines our hip flexors get tight and as a result we experience pain in the low back.

One of my love/hate warm ups is low lunges at the wall. My hip flexors may not love it but my low back always does.

(Jan 15-22)

The wall is an amazing yoga prop but it is often associated with modifications or not being able to do a pose without it. In this challenge we want to embrace the fact that using the wall can and should be the end result! Join us for 8 days of practicing/posing at the wall!

At the Wall:
1. Warmup at the wall✔️
2. Inversion at the wall
3. Splits at the wall
4. Standing balance at the wall
5. Backbend at the wall
6. Mobility at the wall
7. Core at the wall
8. Show us how else you can use the wall!

Hosts:






Made possible by

(Jan 15-22)

The wall is an amazing yoga prop but it is often associated with modifications or not being able to do a pose without it. In this challenge we want to embrace the fact that using the wall can and should be the end result! Join us for 8 days of practicing/posing at the wall!

At the Wall:
1. Warmup at the wall
2. Inversion at the wall
3. Splits at the wall
4. Standing balance at the wall
5. Backbend at the wall
6. Mobility at the wall
7. Core at the wall
8. Show us how else you can use the wall!

Hosts:






Made possible by

How to join:
1. Post for each day and use the tag so that we can find you!
2. Follow all the hosts, and .
3. Embrace the spirit of the challenge! You can use a pole, a tree, or a friend if you don’t have a wall available!
4. Be kind and supportive with other participants!

When shadows come, to steal the light of day. Recall that their is light within. May it guide you and lead the way.

Autumn whispered to the wind, “I fall; but alway rise again.”

Day 1

Hosts:





Sponsor:
- A Liforme mat of your choice

Line up:

Day 1 - Intention: Backbend - Before taking action, we first align with our intention - Share any Back Bending pose, practice, or a ritual to set your intention.✔️

Day 2 - Grounding: Fold - To prepare ourselves for what’s ahead, we ground down to find stability - Any Folding Pose.

Day 3 - Courage: Hip Opener - It takes courage to chase your dreams and come to life - Share your favorite hip opener or other courageous pose.

Day 4 - : Balance - Arm Balance - As with anything chasing a dream takes balance, balance between work, rest, effort and ease - Share your favorite BALANCE pose

Day 5 - Strength: Inversion - You will need to gather your strength for what’s ahead - Share a upside down pose to demonstrate your strength.

Freely resting in this space.
I surrender expectation.
I welcome grace.
Letting go.
Becoming free.
Stepping into who I am meant to be.

Luna




3-10 April

LINE UP:

1. Don't judge. Be an impartial witness to your own experience. ANY FOLD POSE✔️

2. Patience. A form of wisdom, patience demonstrates that we accept what is happening. ANY BALANCE POSE✔️

3. Beginner's mind. Contemplating things with curiosity, abandoning previous expectations. ANY SITTING POSE.✔️

4. Confidence. Develop a basic trust with yourself and your feelings. ANY WARRIOR POSE.

5. Effortlessness. Accept things as they are and as they come without effort. ANY PLANK POSE.

6. Acceptance. See things as they are in the present, without resisting the flow of life. ANY ARM BALANCE POSE.

7. Letting go. Not getting attached to certain things, ideas, sensations and especially to the results. ANY UP SIDE DOWN POSE.

8. Now, apply these 7 attitudes to your lifestyle. ANY MEDITATIVE POSE.

Hosts:

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“I don’t have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I’m as good as anybody but no better.”

Katherine Johnson



While there are many women that have made their mark in the field of technology the one that stands out to me the most is Katherine Johnson. She was one of the first African American women to work as a NASA scientist. Known for her calculation trajectories for NASA missions she was nicknamed the “human computer”. Amongst other pursuits she worked on plans for a mission to Mars. She was later awarded the Medal of Freedom from President Obama.

To me she represents strength, honor, ingenuity, perseverance and aspiration. Just a few of the stepping stones that leads to greatness.




March 1-8

D1- Your favorite Woman Author (standing Asana)✔️
D2 - Your Favorite woman Singer/songwriter (seated Asana)✔️
D3 - Your Favorite woman in Technology (hip opener)✔️
D4 - Your Favorite woman Chef (Inversion)
D5 - Your Favorite woman social justice activist (twist)
D6 - Your Favorite woman leader (heart opener)
D7 - Your Favorite woman athlete (arm balance)
D8 - Your Favorite woman who inspires you. (Yogis choice)

🧘 Hosts:

svetik

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