Sun Salutations

"Regardless of one’s purpose or intentions, carving out the time and space to practice independently can be very challenging".

This thought has been circling in my head for the last few weeks when I realised one week that I had practice more in that week then I had in a month..In the summer I did some damage to my knee, so much so that I had to relax it for awhile. So after years of a daily practice, I had no practice..but after having some Physio on my knee for a few months, getting back into my practice was not happening, and I was starting to feel the effects..so a few days ago I started it up again, but this morning I wasn't feeling so well and I didn't have that much time, and I was thinking 'why bother' just lie in bed for a little bit longer. Then the blog came into mind and the reason for it, to give myself some inspiration. And I remembered what I use to say to my students in courses and trainings..."that even if you have only 10 minutes in your day, do the Sun Salutations, it's an important pracice."

The Sun Salutation is a sequence of twelve positions performed as one continuous exercise. Each position counteracts the one before, stretching the body in a different way and alternately expanding and contracting the chest to regulate the breathing. Practiced daily it will bring great flexibility to your spine and joints, It limbers up the whole body.

The Rig Veda declares that "Surya is the Soul, both of the moving and unmoving beings". The Sun Salutation originated as a series of prostrations to the sun. Traditionally, it is performed at dawn, facing the rising sun. In time, each of the twelve positions came to have its own mantra, celebrating aspects of the sun's divinity.

So Yes I did do the Sun Salutations and even a little bit more....