Blue Bellies – Yoga Basics

We have these sweet little lizards in Northern California where I live called Blue Bellies. They hold a lot of magic, including possible the future cure for Borellia Burgdorferi, Lyme disease. And I love them just for being. The skitter along old wood rails we use in the garden, they scale walls, and of course they do Blue Bellies, the yoga push-up I teach in my classes. Blue Bellies are a gentle, strength building alternative to cataranga and plank pose. Women, men and kids of all ages love the way they too can work their upper arms, strengthen their abdominals and increase stamina without compromising their low back, wrists, or other joints. See my video tutorial below. You can insert them into your sun salute, or even do them at the wall. Practice Blue Bellies often and enjoy the benefits of powerful Blue Belly Lizard Medicine!

Freeform Dolphin

Free your dolphin and awaken your heart! Awakening the shoulders is a main pastime for yogis, particularly men. For women building upper body strength is part of the awakening process. Breathing and subtly liquifying dolphin pose with freeform movement can allow energy blockages and static contraction to dissolve. It matters not if you kick up into pinca myurasana, forearm balance, but if you do the weight will change dramatically. In the full inversion you want to have subtle upper body movements so that you can remain stabilized in the shoulder girdle. However, you can continue to feel the movement of energy and freeform through the legs and play with variations like scorpion. Come down when you are still very energized, and bookend the practice with down dog so that the energy can move past your elbows and ground.  Enjoy the new buzzing and heart chakra opening from this freeform practice!