Your yoga practice tips for late summer

It cannot be denied that every season has its own energy. The feeling of a mild summer evening is a strong contrast to dark winter nights or a cold and fresh autumn morning compared to a baptismal spring day. Just as nature changes its shapes and colors in the course of the year, we also benefit from changing our habits and routines in order to feel optimal from season to season. When it comes to summer, everything is about listening to what your body longs; Man has developed so that he spends the warmer months with long hours of physical activity with low stress, search for food, walks and maybe swimming and traveling. Especially on warmer days, you may have the feeling that your usual HIIT workout or power yoga course is a bit too intense and a walk or swimming is the right one for you. Sometimes we can actually feel more energetic due to the longer hours of sunshine - especially in the morning when the temperatures are lower. So if you get up early and feel the urge, go outside for a bike tour or jogging.

In these types of summer activities, our yoga practice must be one that helps us to remain physically and mentally balanced, to address and calm new muscles that we may use more and help us to cool down on hot days. If you are looking for long walks, bike tours, swimming or just enjoying relaxation on summer vacation, read on to get tips on how to support your yoga practice this season!

yoga for long walks

There is nothing that I love more than a long walk with a little feed search. In summer there are plenty of herbs such as nettle and mugwort and fruits such as blackberries and blueberries to mature, which makes a walk in the forest to an adventure. If you have undertaken a long land or coastal hike this summer, you may find that muscles such as calves and buttocks and even your feet, ankles and back hurt the next day. To remedy this, focus on strengthening these limbs, reducing tension in your feet and then stretching your legs with these tips:

1. Use the (link removed) to roll the soles of the feet regularly so that the connective tissue on the sole of the foot does not become taut and stiff. This type of simple self-massage for a few minutes a day is an effective way to prevent plantar fasciitis, and can even solve tension in the thigh and back muscles.
2. stretch your calves and knee tendons with attitudes such as down the dog, wide -legged forward folds and regenerating stretches with the yoga mate of classic yoga bonds. After the walk, sit on a cushion to relax your back muscles and put your belt around the ball of your feet. Use the belt to stretch your leg for 2 minutes and then change your page.

yoga for the summer vacation

Summer holidays are the perfect time to relax, leave strict routines behind and to recover body and mind before returning to everyday life. A break from the normality of life can be a valuable moment of reflection - do you live in such a way that you really feel comfortable? Are there any changes that you want to make? Are there any things you want to let go when you return to your home and work? As you laze at the pool or on the beach, explore the practice of the diary, which is an effective therapeutic tool for the mind. The Take Two: A diary for new beginnings Journal is perfect to return to everyday life with a new perspective. In addition to journaling, these tips can make your summer vacation even more pleasant:

1. When you want to get your body moving in the morning, this can be difficult on vacation if your usual tool is far away at home. For this reason, the practice of Surya Namaskar or "sun greeting" is the perfect way of moving your whole body so that you feel refreshed when you get up. Pack the (link away) and you can practice wherever you want. Go through five rounds of the classic Surya Namascar sequence, followed by five rounds Surya-Namascar A and a few rounds Surya-Namascar B, and you will feel your heart pumping and endorphins flow! Bonus points if you can do this next to the sunrise.
2. Also for pampering (link away) or magazines on vacation, a guided relaxation or yoga-nidra meeting is a wonderful way to really relax and regenerate your nervous system again. Especially when the few weeks before your vacation were a bit stressful, give yourself this time to relax and relax with the (link removed) , in which nirupta tuli and uma-dinsmore tuli lead them by selecting different practices and a selection of experiences.

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yoga for swimming

whether a jump into the sea, a spontaneous wild swimming in a lake or a round in the local swimming pool - when we swim, we have to move very differently than we would normally do. Swimmers often feel tension in the shoulders and upper back, and if they have recently taken over swimming as part of their training program, it can be difficult to breathe efficiently. Try these tips to get more out of your swimming and solve cramped shoulders:

1. stretching exercises after swimming require a concentration on the shoulders and the upper back. So opt for simple movements such as an overhead stretch, threading the needle from a four position and the arm positions of Garudasana (eagle pose) and gomukhasana (cow facility). To massage tense back muscles, use the yoga matt cork era massage rollers that can massage the muscles on both sides of the spine.
2. For beginners, it can be surprising how important the right breathing is to move well in the water. As is well known, swimmers have a large lung capacity, and breathing when practicing beats such as pre -crawling can also serve as a relaxation technique with good execution. In order to improve your breathability, books such as (link removed) and The power of the breath of Swami Saradananda offer great insights and different techniques. You can also practice coherent breathing, via videos guided online - just inhale six seconds and exhale six seconds. This practice is also a powerful way to relax the nervous system.

yoga for cycling

What could feel more summery than a bike tour? Cycling on shady paths or sunny bike paths and exploring new parts of the country are great opportunities to enjoy this time of year. Similar to swimming, we have to use different muscles when cycling than in daily life, which is a quantity of close the day after their journey. Extend them and return with these tips as soon as possible:

1. attitudes such as virabhadadrasana 1 and 2 (warrior 1 and 2), as well as trikonasana (triangular pose) are ideal for loosening tension in the lower body and at the same time building up strength in the legs. Try folding sitting forward, balasana (child pose) and Baddha Konasana (Bound Angle Pose - Sitting with touching soles of the feet and stretched out sideways) to stretch the hips, knee tendons and adductors. Especially when your lower back feels tight, add a little height by going to the yoga matt around the Zafu meditation pillow or (link removed)

If you bend forward and stick to the handlebar of a bicycle, this can lead to tension in wrists, shoulders, chest and neck. After cycling, practice relaxing back bends on the yoga mate from buckwheat made of organic cotton. Other relaxing attitudes such as a rejected virasana (hero pose) and a refused rotation can help to solve tensions after cycling. Increase the cushion with cork stones, and to relax and recover completely, treat yourself to an eye mask made of organic cotton.