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New York: What I Did on My Summer Vacation or How to Stay Juicy in NYC

This week's post is in video form: I had an amazing yoga vacation and I'm struggling to bring it back home--how do YOU stay soft and open in flow when you're in NYC? Here are a few things I'm trying.

Oh and the class I mention is at Djoniba Dance & Drum Center.

(And sorry for the annoying background music, still figuring out how to do these right!)

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When we are away on vacation we allow the flow of our feelings to match the flow of our bodies in 'vacation rhythm'. We tend on vacation to allow ourselves to feel everything because usually we have put ourselves into a safe environment so that we can be open. As a result of this openness our energy flow in our bodies and our E'MOTIONS' sync up.

Have you ever noticed that sometimes the first day (or hour) of a vacation is filled with an emotional release - perhaps a big sigh or even some tears of relief. This occurs because we are finally allowing the processing of some feelings we had not dealt with in the moment - some anger or fear or sadness that we were holding on to for who knows how long. The result is stress and a blockage of energy flow.

So in conclusion, in order to maintain the free flow of energy through the body we must learn how to keep the free flow of our emotions. We need to learn how to constructively express and release. One way in which yoga asana helps is that if the movement can unlock a holding place - hopefully the emotions will process, release and free the energy to flow once again as it should. OM PEACE



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