Naturalpath

“One of the first poses that I would recommend is actually a series of poses. It’s called a Sun Salutation. And there’s a variety of ways that one can do a Sun Salutation.

“The effects of a Sun Salutation are generally to just get you connected with the feeling of breathing and moving in a coordinated manner. It’s a really good way to begin the process of creating a little internal heat in the body so that what’s needed to be burned away on an emotional or a structural level can begin to be burned away.

“Taking your practice outdoors into nature as the tradition originally began, is an amazing way to balance your own healthcare, your own internal system, and to begin to generate the ability to feel the rhythms of the planet and to feel the rhythms of nature, so that the desire to help the planet begins to naturally arise. Because what we develop and care for in ourselves, we naturally want to act on that.

“And so by taking a practice which most of us do on a Tuesday night at 6 o’clock on the way home from work, which is in a yoga studio with a bunch of other people – maybe it’s a hot, sweaty practice and you’re using it as a way to check out of your life - look at that. There’s a way that you can shift that.