Move with Mindy

06/10/2024

02/18/2024

Despite the chilly temps🥶 and wind, 350 runners and walkers came out yesterday afternoon to participate in the Surfin' Snowman 5 Miler & Santa's Helper 2 Mile Run/Walk sponsored by Miken Builders. Another great event brought to Bethany Beach by Focus Multisports!! Big Thanks to all the volunteers who came out to make this event possible.
Next event Coastal Delaware Running Festival (click here to sign up today for the best 2 day running event at the Delaware Beaches.
Ernie Felici Rick Hundley Karen Karchner Craig Karchner Martin Rodriguez Eugenija King

01/17/2024

Good morning Yogis❣️
At the beginning of each class, I ask my students what part of the body could use some extra love and opening - unanimously HIPS are always “☝️”.
Supta Gomukhasana is a more doable variation of the pose and the hip/glute stretch is AMAZING 😘. (My recommendations: do the pose towards the end of the practice so you are warm and make sure to put a folded blanket or block under your head for support)
Check out the article below or catch one of my classes at Summer Rain Yoga+
😊 XO
Mindy

Wouldn’t it be great if all of life’s problems could be solved by lying down and taking it easy? The good news is that some of them can. Take tight outer hips, for example. This might be one of your problems if you cycle, run, do weight training, spend a lot of time sitting, … Continued

01/09/2024

Happy Transformative Tuesday ❣️🙏

12/31/2023

Paint the world around you with kindness and patience ❣️

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas 🎄

12/01/2023

Thank you Gabrielle Griffith for the suggestion of adding blue lights to the Christmas tree. Every time I look at how beautiful it is, it makes me happy and I think of you 🎄🎄🎄

11/30/2023

We rise by lifting others 💕🙏🕉️

11/28/2023

When we try to surrender and be still, thoughts and emotions can become very alive and active. All skills that we want to master take practice and patience, eventually it will come 💕

Savasana is one of the most difficult yoga poses to master.

08/22/2023

I say this no less than once a week to someone. Yoga is for everybody ❣️

CONVERSATION STARTER—Have you ever worried that you’re bad at yoga? Have you heard other students complain that no matter how hard they try, they just can’t get “good” at it?

As a teacher, this is something I’ve heard time and time again—and I’ve seen the shame and frustration that this belief causes.

But guess what? Yoga isn’t something you can be “good” or “bad” at. It’s a lifelong personal and spiritual practice with no end, not a ladder with rungs to climb or a sport that hands out medals.

Most of the time, when people talk about being bad at yoga, they’re really talking about being bad at poses. And sure, they may not be able to do the fancy or so-called “advanced” poses, and they may never get there. But guess what? That doesn’t actually mean they are bad at poses!

Once again, we need to reflect on the purpose of asana. Like yoga as a whole, there are no prizes for getting into a perfect Crow pose or balancing the longest in a headstand. Asana is simply one of the eight limbs of yoga, a tool to help us along our larger personal journey. And its worth is not measured by the poses you can or cannot do. The poses are morally neutral, they do not confer any kind of special yoga powers or magically move you three steps along in personal growth.

That said, you’re also not a “bad” yoga student if you struggle to maintain a meditation practice, or have a hard time understanding the concepts in the texts. That’s simply the point you’re at on your personal journey; it isn’t good or bad. It simply is.

In fact, I’d argue that one measure of progress might be the ability to let go of the idea of being “good” at yoga at all, since that’s simply another form of attachment. No matter what your practice looks like, it—and you—are worthy.

Have you ever worried that you’re bad at yoga or heard other people say they’re bad at yoga?