Memorial Day Weekend! What a fabulous time, long weekend, and enjoying family. friends and springtime.

Oh yea, AND Yoga! This weekend, do a yoga practice for you, find a class near you or tune in to your body and just practice what you need.

Most importantly RESTORE yourself.

Legs up the wall Pose
Shavasana: relaxation pose
Reclining Butterfly, all good ones to help you relax and restore.

bring joy to your weekend with all that you do! Peace and Light, Denise

Pilates and Yoga CLASSES!

Hi Everyone, I am so glad to be back at my places of work. Eden Prairie and the Sweatshop!

Classes are going and I hope to see you all there. Summer is the time of year when we do not necessarily want to be inside working out, BUT keep in mind yoga or pilates class is only ONE hour of your time.

Yoga and Pilates is a real testament to the practice and doing it regularly, my recovery has been an amazing up hill gain each day and it is all due to doing yoga and pilates. So keep it in your Summer Schedule! You will be happy that you did.

Namaste Everyone and Hope to see you in classes this week! Denise

Finding our way with Yoga

As some you know I have been recovering from a femur fracture, and I am up and about and back to teaching. My heartfelt appreciation to everyone who subbed and kept in touch with me during the past 2 and half months.

Finding my way mentally and physically has been a path and journey in and of itself, nothing I have felt before. My yoga practice has had to reflect it, I have made it a habit to not set stock on the same yoga practice each day.Instead I would do just what I needed or what I was especially in the mood for which always balanced me emotionally and physically. My practice has been very slow, low key and focused. Rehabbing a injury, specifically the thigh. In the beginning, I did many seated poses, to stretch and keep my soft tissue at ease. With there being no load for six weeks, creativity was at a peak for me. Favorite poses, Staff Pose(Dandasana) and Seated Open Angle(Upavista Konasana) and Navasana(boat). In addition, I did many other things, pilates and meditation. I mixed this practice each day for 6 weeks. Then from there it has changed each day, adding longer holds, standing poses, down dog, and yesterday some flow. All very slow and focused on mind/body how it felt in each moment of my practice.

I many times hear people say they stopped practicing yoga because of an injury or a set back physically, I often feel sad about it. As I know myself and many other teachers in my circle, suggest people come to class and do what they can. It is good to find a qualified teacher who can give you helpful tips for at home, OR find a teacher that will meet one on one, to discuss it with you. Usually one visit to get you started is all that you need. It is amazing, to use the practice to allow your body to be where it is and not where you think it should be. Even without an acute injury, yoga must meet our bodies needs on a daily basis. Through our practice this way, we can honor self, be compassionate to ourselves, and show ourselves love. If we do this our bodies will serve us well.



Happy Yogaing! Namasate' Denise