Yoga Tips

• Make yourself comfortable - feel free to come early and warm up slowly if you like
  
  
• Yoga should always be pleasurable – if you feel pain or unusual discomfort, reevaluate your position and modify to your individual needs
  
  
• Do not feel you have to do everything or hold a pose longer than you feel is right for you
  
  
• Stretching is not a forceful event – it is actually relaxing, releasing muscle tension, elongating, slowly, very slowly let gravity do the work. Enjoy the stretch!
  
  
• Never force or rush a yoga pose, slow and easy
  
  
• Protect your body, joints and muscles from injury by listening, honoring and respecting your body
  
  
• Yoga is noncompetitive, nonjudgmental. Do not judge others or compare yourself to others, you are unique and an individual, blessed to have your unique capabilities and unlimited possibilities.
  
  
• Sense of balance needs practice to retain
  
  
• Concentrate on “cans” what you can do, not what you “can’t” do, then build from there, a little at a time
  
  
• Breath and relax whenever possible.
  
  
• Use the wall or support when you feel the need.
  
  
• Try to keep your mind focused on the moment.
  
  
• Before or after class ask me questions, give me feedback, tell me your thoughts and suggestions.
  
  
• Enjoy life because it is grand!
  
  
• The single biggest investment we make in life is the investment we make in ourselves.
  
  
• Our bodies are machines, unique though since the more energy we use today the more energy we have tomorrow – the more we challenge our muscles the stronger they become – them more we stretch our muscles the more elastic they become – the more we discover about ourselves the more we want to learn – as long as we honor and respect ourselves along the way.
  
  
• Read – Watch –Learn – Listen -
  


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