The way we receive spiritual energy

Stop focusing on yourself and your problems. When you are in service you have energy, and the highest joy comes from being able to do something for someone. Without conditions. When you act selflessly you feel a huge flow of energy coming through, filling you and people around you with bliss and harmony. You rarely need doctors, psychologists, healers and psychics.
We receive spiritual energy:
• While observing fast;
• Doing Pranayama (breathing exercises);
• By giving a vow of silence (Mauna);
• Walking in the nature, or just being outside, in the mountains, observing the nature;
• Creating some art or crafts which don’t give you any personal gains;
• Praising (worshiping) highly spiritual persons for his/hers deeds and qualities;
• Laughing and smiling from the bottom of our hearts;
• Helping someone (again, not for benefit or profit);
• Practicing modesty and humility;
• Eating food full of Prana (chi/Qi, or life force) eg. unprocessed and/or sprouted grains, clarified butter, honey, fruits, vegetables;
• Sleeping from 9-10 pm till 2 am (nervous system rests only during these hours);
• Having massage therapy or practicing self-massage;
• Pouring cold water on ourselves, especially in the morning. It will be even better if you are standing on the ground barefoot;
• Charity of our time and money.

Love and Light!

Yoga is the path to good health

Yoga is the path to good health.😜

⠀When people talk about health, they mean health of the body usually.👀

Everything affects it: our activity, environment, psycho-emotional state, as well as sleep and rest, food, water, air and, one of the most important factors is movement.💃💃
Many people try to lead a healthier lifestyle, want to start getting up earlier, change their diet, maybe quit smoking and other bad habits, but nothing comes of it.🤔
Whatever changes you plan to improve your health, start with movement first.😊

⠀It seems to me that it is yoga that can give a varied range of motion, opening the most sleeping corners of the body and pulling out the deepest tensions.😍

⠀Many years ago, I felt very bad, emotionally and physically.⠀This was the result of very stressful environment at work, quite severe, and a lack of a supportive and positive environment.😥
The first step on my path to health was my yoga classes.😋
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Gradually, the practice of yoga returned positivity in myself, gave me energy to change everything and became a matter of life, which fascinates me to this day.😍
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I know that yoga is a powerful tool for healing and transformation.🙏
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Not only from my own experience, but also from the example of thousands of people who have passed through my classes for many years of teaching, I see how beneficial yoga practice affects health.🙏
New Year is a good reason to start something new in life, why not to start with yoga?!🤔
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I want as many people as possible doing yoga to become healthier, happier and change their lives for the better.💃💃
Join my classes and bring more movement and positivity in your life )) become healthier and happier))🙏

Emotional health and yoga

All life impressions that our brain accumulates are projected onto our body😊.

The earlier impression, stronger they are reflected on the human body and mental health as well👀

For example, the early childhood events and even the prenatal period, leave a stronger imprint on us🤔than what happened a couple of years ago. 😔

According to Ayurveda – the ancient Indian health science… Information about outside world events is one of the food types that we consume😋sometimes thoughtlessly and without any restrictions 🙄

Our emotional reaction to events is some kind of process ” digesting” these impressions🤔

When people eat poor quality foods, immoderately or in a negative state of mind, the digestion process is disrupted, and health problems arise😩

Likewise, the life impressions must be digested, emotions lived😋then you will be healthy💃💃💃

However, people suppress their emotions often, do not recognize them, because they can be very unpleasant and living while experiencing them can cause pain, makes them suffer🙄

These “emotional” toxins block the body, create constant stress and fuel disease 😢

As a yoga teacher with experience, I see how problems in the body and the emotional state of a person, his perception of the world around him, are connected 🙄

It is very gratifying to see how the students, as the body changes😋 from practice, their eyes become clearer and the face becomes brighter and more relaxed 😁

A healthy person is healthy not only on physical level, but also emotionally, he knows how to enjoy life🎉 and look at the world positively😍

I know for sure that the correct Yoga practice helps us “digest” the impressions of life stuck in us and free the body from blocks, because Yoga is the way to freedom😁

Have you noticed how your emotions block your body?! 🤔😁

How to deal with back pain and joint problems during menopause?⠀

During the period of hormonal changes, problems with the spine and joints are aggravated, there are back pain, movement restrictions.⠀

The only way to maintain spine strength and joint mobility is to keep moving.⠀It is good to walk… however, often it is after walking that the knees and lower back begin to hurt. It means that the legs are not working properly and the load is on the spine.⠀

Learn how to make your leg work – and you will walk easily, the lower back will not hurt, because the cause of back problems is in the legs.⠀

Tension in the lower back, stiffness in the upper back and shoulders creates tension in the neck.The causes of Cervical spondylosis should be found in the upper back and in the arms. Give the right movement to your arms – mobility will appear in the upper back, the neck will be free and it will become easier for you to keep your head high, which, by the way, is important when walking.⠀

In yoga there are many postures for the spine and joints, but you need to understand how to do all these poses correctly. After all, details and performance features are of great importance.⠀With wrong practice, you can easily provoke an exacerbation of spine problems, inflammation of the joints and just cause injury.⠀

In the online course “Yoga in Menopause” I show many exercises for the arms and legs that help maintain joint mobility and keep the spine healthy. For the health of joints during menopause, nutrition should be adjusted, I will talk about this in the lesson – lectures within the Course.⠀DM for more details))

Movement is life, and menopause is the age of freedom and independence. 

Love and Light!

How to remove the belly and maintain a figure in menopause?

Often, when menopause occurs, women have a fat around their waist and the stomach begins to bulge( especially lower part), even if the woman is not overweight.

It is quite natural that with age we have more fat, this is a reserve of hormones. The problem is that fat not evenly distributed.

Many women begin to perform vigorous exercises, try to pump their abs, however, during menopause, this leads to problems more often in lower back and prolapse of internal organs.

What should you do?
* to maintain harmony and health you need to change your diet.
* it is important to release tension from the lower back, when it is compressed or the stomach sticks out, as if there is not enough space for it.
* you need to maintain good posture, moving crown of the head up. With age, the body sinks noticeably and the internal organs go down.
* to maintain good posture, you need to open your shoulders and move crown of the head up. However, if the shoulders are too stiff and you dont feel the shoulder blades, this will not work. You will need different exercises for the arms to get to the top of the back and release the stiffness of shoulders.

As soon as you begin to properly operate your limbs and build the axis of the body, you will begin to look slimmer.

In my online course “Yoga on menopause ” I show and explain in detail simple and affordable exercises for women to correct posture and abdominal position, and you will look slimmer even while maintaining the same volume😜

For those who want to loose weight, as a part of course, a lecture how to change your diet and daily routine will be provided, that with menopause you dont gain weight.

Yoga on Menopause

How to practice yoga on menopause?

When menstruation is fully stopped and level of hormones low (as in menopause), than you need to do some changes in your yoga practice, considering changes that are happening.

Body is losing elasticity slowly, the fluids circulation is disturbed, dryness and fragility of tissues appear, the risk of injury and inflammation increases.
It means, that power approach to practice can be harmful.

Of course, you shouldn’t lie all the time, but efforts should be moderate and awareness should be maximum.
With age body collects tension and tight zones become more tense in menopause. For example, if there was a stoop than it will become more stoopy 😜if your legs were “X” or “O” shape, it will become more curved.

The main principles of yoga practice in this period:
– first of all, legs and arms work, more of neuro muscular coordination movements, support coordination and limb strength;
– from our legs we are making our hips compact, spine and pelvic floor are lifting up, to reduce prolapse;
– from arm work we open shoulders and chest, stretching the neck muscles and support good posture naturally. That is important for a blood circulation in the head;
– in every pose we are creating structure, that our body doesn’t lose that structure with age;
– using props to help our body to work better and deeper, or the problems that already exist in our body will aggravate;

Correct approach to the yoga practice revive the mind and body, allows to push back of the onset of old age for a long period of time.

To learn more about yoga practice on menopause, pre or post menopause sign for our new course “Yoga on Menopause “that will start February 1, 2021. For more details DM🙏

Gratitude challenge

Many of my friends, students asked…how to be more positive, happier?! There is no one answer for everyone. What make one person happy will not work for other person. Why?! Simply, because of age, experience, expectations, environment, mindset and many other factors. What will make happy elder person may will not make happy a young one. What will make happy a mother will not make happy a woman who doesn’t have children. However, if we bring in our life attitude of gratitude, that will make changes in every person life, old or young, single or taken, kids or no kids. That’s why, I would like to bring on Gratitude challenge for 30 days. Lately, I do not like the word challenge, as commitment sound more pleasant to my ear, I think life gives as enough challenges, and people become so competitive in everyday life, that they lost understanding of beauty of living a life. However, I will leave the name as Gratitude challenge, as it ,probably, will atract more people, who would like to bring some happier changes in their life.

What do you need?

1. Some free time…we all can find twenty or thirty minutes a day, just by less wondering on the social media or sitting watching TVs.

2. Notebook

3. Pen or if you prefer new technology way…computer or tab.

4. Desire to do it

Each day is a new topic, see below:

Day 1 – About your body

Day 2 – What you find beautiful

Day 3 – A song you love

Day 4 – An accomplishment of yours

Day 5 – A friend

Day 6 – A smell you love

Day 7 – Something that makes you smile

Day 8 – A happy memory

Day 9 – Something you like about where you live

Day 10 – A person in your family

Day 11 – A food you love

Day 12 – An ability of yours

Day 13 – A person

Day 14 – You are looking forward

Day 15 – A life lesson

Day 16 – A person you look up too

Day 17 – A personality trait of yours

Day 18 – An item you use everyday

Day 19 – Something about work

Day 20 – A holiday you love

Day 21 – A technology

Day 22 – Something made you laugh

Day 23 – Your health and wellbeing

Day 24 – A book, magazine or podcast

Day 25 – The little things that make life great

Day 26 – Something in nature

Day 27 – A gift you received

Day 28 – Something awesome about your age

Day 29 – A compliment you have received

Day 30 – Something you are passionate about

How you do it?! Just let it flow natural, be you.

Love and Light!

 

Depression

Our depression starts from confusion. It starts from the wrong decisions. It starts when we dont the exit the exit from current situation. It starts when you stop thinking about yourself, but you think how to make others happy. It starts when you are trying to please others, forgetting yourself. It starts when you afraid to hurt others, unknowingly hurting yourself deeply. Depression is the disease of the 21st century. Everyone thinks it will not happened to them.

It comes slowly, like a shadow. Crawling inside you…without noticing at first. You starting to lose interest in things, such as…what to eat, what to do, where to go. You prefer to sleep over any activities…or opposite…you are too restless. Your sleep is your safe happy zone, where you are happy with and within yourself, where you run away from the situation, from responsibilities, from decisions.

Your eyes look nowhere, they are just staring at things or people. You are holding your tears, because you dont want to show your emotions to others, because you want to make them happy…and if they start to talk to you…you are going more inside your shell. The laugh slowly feels like a fake mask, just that others dont see, what you are going through.

And there is a constant chest rock…so heavy, that you can’t breath fully. You became an emotionless human being, hiding to show what is really bothering you.

The feeling of nausea is your friend…its like constant fear to do or to say something wrong.

You are trying to find a place, just to be with yourself, with your thoughts, however, constant thinking that you can hurt others by your decision…and you stop thinking that you need you…your time…your space.

The loud noises started to irritate you, and you dont even want to explain that feeling. You just living, from one day to another, emotionless. Just one more day.

Thoughts to commit suicide come and go. Thanks you have someone in your life, that you can’t do that to them. However, the thought is coming, time to time.

Constipation is your friend this days, you are holding everything inside: fear, anger, ashamed, irritable, helpless…however, people around you just think you are selfish.

Suggestion:

love yourself

Think about yourself

Forget to make everyone happy

Remember, you deserve to live as you want

Do what makes you happy

Love and Light🙏🙏🙏

Widow humpback (the hump (lump) around your c7)

Widow humpback (the hump (lump) around your c7)its actually collection of the fat in the specific area👀👀👀

What you can do in that situation?!🤔
1. Sleep on hard bed
2. Pillow should be size of the shoulders, no higher than 10cm
3. Do neck massage
4. Do everyday exercise
5. Do physiotherapy
6. Intake of calories should be proper
7. More movement and walking outside
8. Say no to oily, fat food
9. Have grapefruit and green tea
10. Say no to fried food, wheat food
11. If you are not vegetarian, have chicken without skin
12. Have fish grilled or boiled
13. Have grilled, boiled vegetables
14. Massage: bring fingers on the back of neck and push lump to different sides.

Why that happened?🙈🙈
No movement, sedentary lifestyle, sitting on computer all day, osteoporosis, spondylitis, hormonal changes in woman, stress, wrong diet, genetic, high testosterone

What you may feel and look like? 🤔🤔🤔
Discomfort in movement, changes in blood pressure, increased tiredness, stiffness in muscles and vertebrae of the neck, roundness of upper back, slouching, obesity, big chest spasm, chest hypnosis.

Why its dangerous?😎😎
Compression in neck bring bad blood circulation to the head…from that: grey colour of face, no glowing skin, puffiness, dark circles and puffiness under eyes, second chin, disfigured jaw line, many wrinkles, feel tired, sleepy, high blood pressure, hypertension, tachycardia, headaches, nausea, numbness, dizziness.

Pathology that can be🤐🤐: heart problems, problems with urogenital system latent or active, cyst, endometriosis, polyps, UTI, urinary incontinence

What to do?💪💪💪
Reduce weight, give relaxation to muscles that in contraction, be more often outside, active way of life, move your neck more often to find interesting things in life💃💃💃, do massage, physiotherapy, swimming, shukma vyayam.

Some yoga asanas:🙏🙏🙏
Dhanurasana or Bow pose hold at least 20 seconds
Ustrasana 30 seconds
Trikonasana 30 seconds
Garudasana 15- 20 seconds
Shalabhasana
Chaturanga Dandasana
Plank
Diaphragmatic breathing

Most important, find a qualified yoga teacher🤔🤔

Love and Light 🙏🙏🙏

More about Surya Namaskar…

So many confusion come to students with the words Surya Namaskar. Many believe that they are doing classic Hatha Yoga Surya Namaskar, but in reality its just a variations)))

Today, many yoga teachers present different variations of the Surya Namaskar, and many believe that what they presenting in the class is actually the classic one, I was in such class))) those teacher believe in what they are saying, because at the yoga teacher course, thats the way they learn it.

So many variations of Surya Namaskar this days, for example Ashtanga yoga has Surya Namaskar A and Surya Namaskar B; another example is Hatha Yoga Surya Namaskar with the plank. Different schools of Yoga teaching different variations of the Surya Namaskar and even given different names to the asanas.

 

 Surya Namaskar or the Sun Salutation is one of the most well-known yoga routines.  The routine consists of 12 forward and backward bending movements that stretch and flex the spinal column. It’s not that difficult to learn, and great for beginners who are looking to introduce themselves to yoga.

Surya Namaskar asanas as in classic yoga scriptures:

Pranamasana

Hasta Uttanasana

Pada Hastasana

Ashwa Sanchalanasana

Paravatasana

Sashtanga Namaskar

Bhujangasana

Parvatasana

Ashwa Sanchalanasana

Pada Hastasana

Hasta Uttanasana

Pranamasana

The above constitutes one round of Surya Namaskar. Rest for few seconds before starting the second round. Surya Namaskar, like most asanas, is recommended to be performed on an empty stomach. It is generally practiced in the morning before breakfast or in evening.

Practising up to 6 rounds is more beneficial. However, increase rounds gradually and steadily and never go beyond your capacity.

Synchronizing your breathing with the movements of the body is very important. The basic breathing principle is to inhale during backward bending postures and exhale during forward bending postures.

It is recommended that Surya Namaskar be done slowly with complete awareness of breathing. When the exercises are done a little quickly, the gain is more physical whereas if they are done slowly with breath awareness, the gain is more mental and spiritual.

to be continued…

Love and Light!