Showing posts with label rest days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rest days. Show all posts

Jun 28, 2013

The Yoga Comics: Guide to rest days



Via The Yoga Comics:
Ashtanga yoga practice helps us to cultivate more awareness and sensitivity within our relationships with the earth, others, and ourselves. One way we grow this balance of gentleness and strength is by giving equal effort to holding on and to letting go to when we do and not do our asana practice. We diligently hold on to our asana practice on most days and we softly let go of our asana practice on rest days.

Some examples of typical rest days are:
  • Taking off moon days and Saturday (or Sunday) gives us time to spend with our families.
  • Taking off fever days allows us to give our full strength to heal when we are sick.
  • Taking off ladies' holidays honors and nurtures our bodies' natural rhythms.
  • Taking off 6 weeks - 3 months after giving birth to allow the body to rest, heal and regain strength.
If you are wondering if you should practice, ask your teacher.
Here is also a useful post of the topic of when not to practice:
http://aylibrary.blogspot.com/2012/08/should-i-practice-if-by-elise-espat.html


Cartoon by: Boonchu Tanti
Editors: Jessica Walden and Elise Espat

Jun 18, 2012

{Moon Day} Tuesday, June 19 New Moon

Next Moon Day: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
No classes, take rest!
Full list of 2012 Moon Days

Why?
From Shri K. Pattabhi Jois via the Ashtanga Yoga Shala:
"That day is very difficult day. Two stars one place (conjunction) is going. New moon also, full moon also. That day very dangerous day. You (take) practice (on that day), anyone can have a small pain starting. That pain is not going very quickly. Long time he is taking. Some broken possible. That is why that day don’t do." continue reading

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