WELCOME to Innova Yoga and please join us for a class soon! Add Svaroopa Yoga to your to do list for 2015.  

 

Release the very deepest layers of tension and enjoy inner well being, physical healing, and spine and muscle relaxation. Boost immune, reduce pain and relieve stress. No prior yoga experience is required.  We look forward to seeing you.

Innova Yoga offers weekly continuing yoga classes Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 9:30-11:00am.   Please join us Tuesday and Thursday for continuing yoga class.  

FULL SPECTRUM YOGA

While working with your body, Svaroopa yoga opens up the full spectrum of your being. Spiritual insights and profound healings happen without any sweat.  Slower yoga, consciously aligned and leveraged for multi-dimensional openings, means you get it all.

I especially remember my professional training level 1 (of 4 levels) that took place in Florida.  It was a hard training for me as I had alot of spinal tension that needed to be released from my body and hips from  being a professional ballerina in my younger years. The trainers ability to listen and respond without judgment, was just what I needed to also release many of my mind/body tensions that I was not aware that I had, but I was living only in the outside external world!  

Continued Svaroopa yoga has made a hip replacement not needed, and has replaced depression with temporary sadness normally situationally dependent.

Continuing the Svaroopa explanation there are many adaptations of Svaroopa yoga-utilizing props, alignments and adjustments that maximize your hip joint extension, leading to spinal traction and lengthening of your sacrum and possibly even your tailbone depending on the pose.  The way we do this is always about core opening.   The founder has said that the words "core strengthening" and "core release" clearly delineate differing paradigms informing the different styles, but you must also look at the ways that other styles avoid finding their spinal tensions.  While Svaroopa yoga targets those tensions, so that you can make a change.

Before my Svaroopa yoga training a friend and I had enrolled in a series of reputable Pilates classes. Though I diligently wanted to find my abdominal muscles, even with the help of the teacher, I was unable to do the Pilates exercises correctly because I had too much spinal tension. My abdominial muscles were no where to be found as my back was so tight I was just using my back to engage my core.   For so many years I had used my back as my core, until with continued Svaroopa yoga I learned how to release my back, and then activate my abdominals.  The spiritual energy travels up the back through the Sushumna channel, so along with locating my abdominals I also got spiritual opening with Kundalini rising.  "Speaking up for myself" voice with the activation of the 3rd Chakra came along later too.

Here is how she summarizes the differences:

Svaroopa Yoga:      

Core Opening      

Exposes spinal tensions

Uses props, alignments and adjustments to release the newly-found spinal tensions

Other styles of asana practice:

Core strengthening

Avoids spinal tensions

Doesn't work on releasing spinal tensions because they've been avoided and are therefore unknown.  

DO MORE YOGA!

                                                                                                         

Recipe of the month

From The 10-Day Detox Diet Meal Plan

LUNCH:  Dr Hyman's Super Salad Bar

         Choose a green base: arugula, spinach or mixed salad                  greens

         Choose three vegetables: red, green, or orange bell pepper,          celery, mushroom, snap peas, jicama, carrots, radish,                  broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, onion, roasted peppers,                artichoke hearts, parsley, dill, cilantro, mint.

         Choose one healthy fat: 1/4 avocado, 2 tablespoons nuts              or seeds (walnuts, almonds, pumpkin or sunflower seeds),            2 tablespoons olives ( Kalamata)

         Choose one serving protein (4 ounces) salmon,sardines or            shrimp, (wild fresh or canned), diced chicken or turkey,                cubed tofu or tempeh

         Choose your dressing: 2 tablespoons tahini with lemon                 juice, 1 tablespoon olive oil with lemon juice or apple                  cider vinegar. 

Dinner on next months newsletter!

Take time for yourself and do more yoga!~

 

 

Private Embodyment? Yoga Therapy, and private one on one Yoga sessions available: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00-1:00pm, and 2:00-3:00pm.   Other days and times available upon availability of studio.