🤍 Yoga in Milan at Parco Sempione all levels are welcome 🙏🏻

Portogallo con le mie surfiste 🤍

Girls surf trip 🇵🇹🏄‍♀️🫶🏻 with my favorite 🎒 handmade in Cape Town @sealandgear

“Sacredness for women should never be a mystical concept, it is an innate quality that resides within all equally. Sacredness is a quality that holds women to stay connected to their own truth. It is not something extraordinary. A woman's body is naturally designed to live in cycles. By honoring this aspect, you allow the women’s true nature to bloom. Women are intrinsically healers when they surrender to the magic of their bodies. So many of us striving for self acceptance are alienating from our true nature, but why can’t the nurturing aspect of women be regarded as precious as the productivity of modern time? Women that are balanced and aware of their nature can embrace each other in sisterhood, allowing sensitivity and vulnerability, leaving no space for judgment or comparisons. When we are transparent with each other, we feel more empowered because we step into our true nature. This has a beautiful self-perpetuating ripple effect. If we allow ourselves to be present with each other, we naturally access the wisdom of our bodies.” Some unposted from a while back with Kai 💓🐚 📸 by Luke

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On Mula Bandha “Prana can refer to the anatomical breath, but it most often denotes life force, located in the subtle body. It is important to understand that the two are not identical. However, the movements of the life force that occur in the subtle or energetic body have some correlation to the movement of breath in the gross body. The flow of prana can be influenced by directing one's breath. It can even be accumulated and stored. A set of exercises called mudras, mudra meaning "seal." They are a combination of posture, breath, and bandha, and they produce the sealing of prana. It is this process of gaining control of the life force that differentiates yogic exercise from mere gymnastics. The term bandha is related to the English word "bonding." The first bandha is called Mula Bandha, which translates as "root lock." The root referred to here is the root of the spine, the pelvic floor or, more precisely, the center of the pelvic floor, the perineum. By slightly contracting the pubo-coccygeal (PC) muscle, which goes from the pubic bone to the tailbone (coccyx), we create an energetic seal that locks prana into the body and so prevents it from leaking out at the base of the spine. Mula Bandha is said to move prana into the central channel, called sushumna, which is the subtle equivalent of the spine. In the beginning we employ mainly a gross muscular lock, which works mainly on the gross body. Through practice we shift to an energetic lock, which works more on the subtle or pranic body. When mastered, Mula Bandha becomes exclusively mental, and works on the causal body. “ by Gregor Maehle

The east coast got me dreaming ✨

The countdown has begun 🇬🇷✨🌊🐬🧘🏼‍♀️🫶🏻

Padma Mayurasana is a transition pose we practice in Ashtanga Yoga while jumping back from Kukkutasana 🧘🏼‍♀️ Jumping back in lotus is quite challenging. A way to build up to it is to rock forward from seated lotus onto your knees, place the arms shoulder width apart so the elbows are just under the body, then attempt to balance on the elbows. From there, straighten the legs and come down into chatvari.

The Sea I need the sea because it teaches me. I don’t know if I learn music or awareness, if it’s a single wave or its vast existence, or only its harsh voice or its shining suggestion of fishes and ships. The fact is that until I fall asleep, in some magnetic way I move in the university of the waves. It’s not simply the shells crunched as if some shivering planet were giving signs of its gradual death; no, I reconstruct the day out of a fragment, the stalactite from the sliver of salt, and the great god out of a spoonful. What it taught me before, I keep. It’s air ceaseless wind, water and sand. It seems a small thing for a young person, to have come here to live with his own fire; nevertheless, the pulse that rose and fell in its abyss, the crackling of the blue cold, the gradual wearing away of the star, the soft unfolding of the wave squandering snow with its foam, the quiet power out there, sure as a stone shrine in the depths, replaced my world in which were growing stubborn sorrow, gathering oblivion, and my life changed suddenly: as I became part of its pure movement. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Images by @seakruu

Virasana - Hero pose ✨ To come into Hero pose or Virasana, begin in an all fours position on your hands and knees. Bring your knees closer together and separate your feet slightly wider than hip distance apart Press the top of your feet down and slowly lower your hips back until eventually sitting on the mat (or props) between the heels. Hero Pose stretches the quads and ankles, helping build flexibility in the knees, ankles, and thighs. Don't go into this pose quickly. Go slow so you can be sure that you feel the difference between a big quad stretch and knee joint pain. Be careful of the knees in this pose. If you have any knee pain, try raising the hips more by sitting on a block or two to decrease the pressure on your knees.

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