Self Love

Theme: Self Love

Opening Meditation: Visualize yourself laying in a green grassy meadow. Your gaze lifts towards the sky as birds fly overhead and clouds shift into different creatures. Bring awareness to the ease of the moment, the peacefulness, and the joy. Perhaps you imagine yourself in your childhood, or at a time of pure happiness. Feel the warmth on your skin, the coolness from the breeze. Feel your body heavy and supported on the earth, the lightness in your heart. Bring your attention to the comforting rhythmic beat of your heart.

Threads:

• Accept healthy, genuine love
• Receive love, compassion, and joy. Give love, compassion and joy
• Cultivate the same relationship with yourself that you wish from others
• Notice the negative thoughts that come up. Acknowledge them tenderly. Then say "I am not my thoughts"
• My body is healthy, my mind is brilliant, my heart is at peace, my soul is tranquil.
• Be inspired by you, not those around you
• "Practice love until you remember that you are love"
• "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Sequence:

• Reclined bound angle post [supta baddha konasana] - set your sankalpa/intention
• Seated:
• Neck rolls
• Basket mudra to heart shoulder opening flow
• Lateral stretches
• Cat- Cow
• Extended Gate with Thread the Needle
• Hero Pose [virasana] - Om 
• Puppy [uttana shishosana] -> Sphynx [salamba bhujangasana]
• Shoulder opening pronal stretch
• Sphynx -> Puppy
• Downward Facing Dog [adho mukha svanasana]
• Sun Salutation A [surya namaskara A]
• Mountain Pose [tadasana]
• Back Bend with palms in Kali mudra
• Downward Facing Dog [adho mukha svanasana]
• Warrior 1 [virabhadrasana 1] right side/left side
• Hug Flow (Inhale arms open to cactus, exhale fold and reach for shoulder blades)
• Mountain Pose [tadasana]
• Lateral side bends, hold
• Vinyasa
• High Lunge [ashta chandrasana] right side/left side
• Warrior 3 [virabhadrasana 3]
• Foward Fold [uttanasana]
• Chair Pose [Utkatasana]
• Vinyasa
• Warrior 2 [virabhadrasana 2] right side-> heart mudra
• Reverse Warrior [viparita virabhadrasana]
• Wide Legged Forward Fold [prasarita padottanasana] with arms behind
• Warrior 2 [virabhadrasana 2] left side -> heart mudra
• Reverse Warrior [viparita virabhadrasana]
• Wide Legged Forward Fold [prasarita padottanasana] with twist
• Vinyasa
• High Lunge [ashta chandrasana] right side/left side
• Warrior 3 [virabhadrasana 3]
• Eagle [garudasana]
• Five Pointed Star [utthita tadasana]
• Garland Pose [malasana]
• Plank [Phalakasana]-> Cobra [bhujangasana]
• Dancing Cobra
• Locust Flow [salabhasana A-C]
• Half Bow [ardha dhanurasana] right side/left side
• Full Bow [dhanurasana]
• Child's Pose [balasana]
• Lateral stretch
• Hero [virasana] -> return to sankalpa
• Camel Pose [ustrasana]
• Child's Pose [balasana]
• Seated Staff [dandasana]
• Cow Face Pose [Gomukhasana] right side/left side
• Seated Twist [marichyasana C] right side/left side
• Pigeon [eka pada rajakapotasana] right side/left side
• Optional Mermaid
• Spinal Twist
• Bridge [setu bandha sarvangasana]
• Shoulder Stand [salamba sarvangasana]
• Plow [halasana]
• Supported Fish [matsyasana]
• Seated - Chant 'Yam' seed sound
• Savasana