Restorative yoga is the yoga of rest and relaxation, the yoga of your parasympathetic nervous system. It is the most yin of all the modern yoga styles, a mere bolster or two away from meditation, still and sublime, yet incredibly supported. It's day 4 of a holiday, that part of your vacation where you abandon your efforts to relax and simply melt into the hammock.
Busi is 57 and not very tall, 5’4 if I had to hazard a guess, she walks with a slight limp, I am not sure why and I have never asked. Busi is hard of hearing, the result of TB medication taken years ago, she wears hearing aids, but still needs to lip read, she cannot hear much yet she still teaches because “this work is important, and people need it”.
February Is the month of love, and here in the southern hemisphere it’s the peak of summer, the height of fiery yang to which the heart belongs. Love and fire. I would like to offer you another perspective to the capitalist take on cupid’s union, a little more devoid of sentimentality: one that is free and truly about freedom.
Rhythm and synchronization are concepts employed in music, linguistics, psychology, biology, and physics. Rhythms of life. Rhythm, the patterning of the universe and central to the human body and experience. The primal beat of the drum and indigenous dance has its evolutionary roots in the beat of the heart. Rhythms are found in language, movement, the way we breathe, think and live. Rhythm is all around us, it’s the base of creation, in the rise and fall of the sun, the shift of seasons, the lapping of the waves and the sounds of nature, the inhale and exhale of your breathe. Rhythm is the language of life.