3 Adjustments tips

Making minor adjustments to your yoga practice can really improve your overall experience.  If you are feeling pain after your practice, talk to your instructor and maybe they will be able to help give you some tips.  Here are a few things that I recently started working on in my practice and the minor changes have been great.  With all the instructors talking through each pose, the basics are so easy to forget and make such big difference!

• arms/hands
•  distribute the weight throughout your fingers and palm gripping the mat.  Make sure that your muscles are holding you up, not just the skelton.  this has really helped w/my shoulder pain, along with some great should stretching poses!

• Ujjayi breath
  • engage the core, the breath will naturally direct itself to the back of the throat and give you that nice darth vader sound as your breath goes in and out.  Keeping to my breath, allows me to stay calm and focused. 
   
• Bridge
• as you are laying on your back tilt your pelvis and make sure you are engaging the core and lifting while elongating from the knee to the shoulder, feel length in the spine.  Opening the chest and creating space in the spine.

    Hope these tips help, it's just a few.  I am always modifying my practice and making changes to increase the integrity. Maintaining my ujjayi breath, engaging my core, and staying present and active in every pose. Every day is a new journey and path of transformation.

Now it's back to the mat!

Namaste!
~Ruby