30/12/2025
Our final theme for this year to inspire our Tuesday evening candlelight yoga sessions was 'natural landscapes'. We can learn so much from nature for our bodies and minds, and during the winter months when we might be outside less often, we can still get some of the benefits we receive from being in natural landscapes through visualisation and imagination in our yoga and relaxation practice.
The landscapes we explored were mountains, forests, oceans, deserts, grasslands and on the final week, lakes.
We reflected on how these landscapes move and live, and weaved some of these ideas into our own physical activity in yoga.
Mountain - grounding and stability. Forests - lengthening, flexibility and growth. Oceans - movement and flow. Deserts - heat and strength. Grasslands - creativity, sacral chakra / hips mobility and flexibility. Lakes - stillness and yin style postures.
And of course our mental and emotional states can be hugely calmed, as well as uplifted, when we relax, meditate and visualise with these incredible natural landscapes in mind in our relaxation practices.
Surrounding yourself with any kind of nature creates positive physiological and psychological balance, whether that be in real life, or when that's not possible, in your mind during yoga practice.
Here's to continuing to salute the partnership of nature and yoga into 2026! ๐๐๐
I'm really looking forward to exploring more themes to inspire our yoga practice, body and mind this coming year โ๏ธ on Tuesday evenings at Station Mill Alresford.
๐ธ Yoga practice lakeside in Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ a couple of years ago - one of my beautiful places ๐ฒโ๏ธ