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Finding Freedom in your Body: A Series to Find your Yoga Like Water

Us yogis spend years of our life getting the discipline and getting ourselves ‘trained’ to get on that yoga mat. After a few years of practice, you may find that your yoga mat is where we are conditioned to feel our freedom, our sense of spaciousness.

But these feelings, when confined to the mat, when confined to this small plastic rectangle in our living rooms, or yoga studios, are so disconnected to the rest of our life.

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Finding Freedom in your Body: A Series to Find your Yoga Like Water

Us yogis spend years of our life getting the discipline and getting ourselves ‘trained’ to get on that yoga mat. After a few years of practice, you may find that your yoga mat is where we are conditioned to feel our freedom, our sense of spaciousness.

But these feelings, when confined to the mat, when confined to this small plastic rectangle in our living rooms, or yoga studios, are so disconnected to the rest of our life.

We love how yoga makes us feel, both physically and mentally.

But again, after decades of practice, and I don’t know about you, but the very thing that you first found on the mat, the feeling of spaciousness and grace, can so easily be lost. Yoga is such a wonderful, liberating practice, but at the same time, the shapes can be so linear, structured and somewhere in the hard lines of the traditional practice, we can easily lose our zest for yoga.

This is a challenge for anyone who craves a feeling of lightness, happiness, and childlike playfulness.

This is a challenge for those of us who want to explore movement, movement for joy, movement because it makes us feel alive. With this challenge, we learn how we can feel much more coordinated and efficient in your movements. We learn to feel stronger, more supple, more spacious. We can stop burning off energy where we don’t need to use it. And then we can return to our mat, to our regular practice with a new found lightness.

SIGNS

Dan takes four key concepts or “SIGNS”: Spaciousness; Integration; Grounding; and; Spontaneity and explores them through mindful movement and play to upgrade your practice and the feelings you have in your life.

Feeling Stuck

Many of us spend so much of our lives feeling ‘stuck’ in some way, be it emotionally, mentally or physically. Our yoga can often reflect this ‘stuckness’, when it is as rigid as our mindset, and our yoga is held in fixed and repetitive patterns. This is reflected in our posture, locomotion and the way that we store tension in the physical body. Many of us are lacking space, integration grounding and spontaneity of movement. This series, created by Dan Peppiatt, Founder of Yoga Like Water, will help you to rediscover and reconnect to these ways of moving. You may well find that when your body finds freedom, your mind follows!

Finding Freedom

This Finding Freedom in your Body challenge is an effort to break us out of those cycles and leave us with no option but to explore other, new and unusual ways of interacting with our bodies, literally unlocking or freeing it. Using a range of new and adapted techniques we use fun exploration to become free. Try to avoid using the first or most obvious solution to each problem when it arises and see if there is another way to work around it.

“Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.” ― C. JoyBell C.

What to Expect

There are 11 videos to enjoy with tutorials, insights and new ways to move. You can sign up for the challenge and get a motivating email for 11 consecutive days with extra tips and advice. Or you can get started right away by clicking on the class links below. You can do the classes in any order, although they will make more sense if you follow 1- 11!

Let us know how you get on during the challenge and share your journey with us on social media using #MovementForModernLife + #MoveMoreLiveMore.

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