Yoga Bliss–A Vital Component of My Self-Care Regimen
I just got back from a Yoga class and I am feeling especially yummy and blissful. My client and friend, Pattie Cinelli, teaches a fabulous Sunday afternoon Vinyasa Flow Yoga class on Sunday afternoons at Results on Capitol Hill.
She started us out with a nice, long warm-up of deep stretches and careful attention to form. Following the warm-up we moved into a surya namaskar series (sun salutations) and then a nice Vinyasa flow where you use your breath to move from one pose to the next. It was so gratifying to feel the difference in how open my hips and shoulders were from one series to the next.
Pattie is a fabulous teacher with over 25 years of experience as a yoga teacher and fitness trainer. What I enjoy about working with Pattie is that she approaches fitness from a mindful, spiritual place. She tells us to do our Yoga form the inside out and to remember that the purpose of the practice is to quiet and center the mind not to twist the body into impossible contortions.
Now I am home preparing a simple supper of curried fish, steamed corn and Broccoli and as I move through preparing this meal that will feed my physical body the pungent aromas and the anticipation of the delicious, exotic flavors also nourishes my soul. Doing Yoga reminds me to focus in and be mindful of my breath, my movements, my intentions and even my words.
Yoga is just one part of my self-care regimen. I love how it serves so many of my needs all at once. It thoroughly relaxes and centers me, it works my body and it feeds my spiritual connection to the Divine within. When I take this time away from my girls and my life it fulfills and renews me so that when I return I have more to give after having replenished the well.
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