Private yoga for ease of mind, better posture, and increased core strength.
08/16/2021
Quick check in, y’all. What’s helping you feel balanced + sustained right now?
For me at 8:30am on a Monday in August:
Water ✅
Coffee ✅
Edie 🐈✅
Neutral Pelvis ✅
Relaxed Neck ✅
Engaged Core ✅
Palli & Gupta Mudra ✅
06/21/2021
Happy International Day of Yoga
I started practicing when I was 15. The feeling I got from practicing was reminiscent of how I felt when I was little girl, about 6 years old, looking out into space during quiet moments and thinking about what it means to be a human, to be in relationship, and to be alive. I wouldn’t have used those words as a six-year-old, but that is the best way I can describe it now that I am 30. This process of connection, curiosity, and inquiry has been a consistent thread throughout my years of meditation and asana practice, and it is an honor to hold space for other people to practice, as well.
According to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, there are eight limbs of yoga: Yama (ethical ways to live in relationship), Niyama (ethical ways to be with oneself), Asana (posture practice), Pranayama (restraint or extension of breath), Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (meditation), and Samadhi (absorption). There are specific branches of yoga, there are styles, there are schools of thought that differ from one another, and there is so much history. I have personally spent a lot of time and energy focusing and strengthening a few of the limbs of yoga and still have much to learn and incorporate.
This holiday, we can use this opportunity to understand the roots of yoga and understand what is being celebrated. If you’re interested in learning more about yoga, I recommend learning from and of Yoga Is Dead podcast and of Tulsa’s only BIPOC yoga studio
LYT Shoulder Sizzler Day 1 |
I love the impact this intentional twist has on my shoulder stability and breath (think: bigger, global breaths).
Try this:
Standing up, reach your arm out in front of you (as if to say stop).
Rotate your body relative to the arm, keeping the arm still and the chest open.
Try in twisted crescent lunge - rotate your ribs relative to your arm - hug your shoulder blade on your back - hold the top of the arm for feedback.
Don’t collapse - stabilize and feel the shoulders sizzle 🔥
Check out the hosts for more hot tips for your posture practice: .heimann .byrachna
Need to reset your posture?
Grab a wall 🙏🏽
Bring your skull, shoulders, and sacrum on the wall. This is called the Triple S in the 🔥
Engage the lower abdominals (almost like you could zip up jeans)
Lengthen the back of your skull. It may feel like you’re looking down.
Stay here for as long as you want to really feel what it is like to be upright. Walk away from the wall and see how that feels.
Come back to a wall any time you want to reset your posture.
04/05/2021
03/18/2021
What's updog, you ask?
Let’s get into it in a two-hour weekend workshop.
And while we're there, let's also get into all the foundational movement elements involved in the vinyasa, including forward folds, chaturanga, downward facing dog, cobra, and upward facing dog.
Join me in-studio Saturday, March 27, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at Updog Yoga. There are only 10 spaces available.
Use the link below to register. Let me know what questions you have - excited to share with you.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=696691&stype=-8&sTG=28&sVT=13&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000015
03/08/2021
Did you know...
Nearly all of your favorite standing balance poses can be gentle-fied and practiced on the floor?
It’s true!
Join me for gentle yoga (Wednesday) at 10:30 am Eastern (9:30 central, Tulsa peeps) as we gentle-fy this pose.
Register here: https://www.francescacervero.com/online-classes/
Can’t join live? No worries. The audio recording will be sent to all who register. See you in class!
I started my internship last week!
My mentor invited me to furnish my office with photos and trinkets (still debating if I should bring my lil space heater).
So far, the only thing I’ve brought to the office is a wooden block.
Initially I brought the block to prop up my iPad and help my desk posture. So necessary! Bonus that the block also comes in clutch when I need to open my back and chest during my screen breaks.
Would you like to see other ways I use a yoga block during screen breaks?