Self love

Balancing act

Liane always starts our yoga sessions with shoulder balances on her balancing chair. This pose is known as the upside down pose or inversion pose in yoga. It strengthens your arms and shoulders because you use them to hold your entire body up,it has a lot of benefits when done properly.

*It helps increase blood flow to the head and scalp which calms down the body and mind.
*It helps relieve stress when combined with long, slow breathing.
* It strengthens the core muscles because having your body in a upside down pose forces you to rely on your core strength to hold your legs up and keep your balance throughout the pose.
* This pose can be both energizing and calming. Inversion poses are a natural brain booster,this is because this pose causes blood to rush to the brain causing a surge of energy throughout your body.

Yoga and brunch- Second edition

I feel like I haven't blogged in such a long time and in between that time I have been doing quite a lot I just haven't had time to sit down and blog about it. In between all that time I hosted two yoga and brunch events, one was this past weekend and the other was in December. I actually forced myself to sit down and post about my second yoga class, otherwise I wouldn't find the time to do it.

On the 23rd of December I hosted my second yoga and brunch event with the help of my other awesome yoga instructor, Liane. The previous yoga class was instructed by Marleen, so everyone that attended didn't know what to expect from Liane's class. We began the class by doing shoulder balances on Liane's balancing chair and everyone seemed to enjoy it even though they were a bit nervous to try it out. I loved that Liane came with yoga props because it made the whole session fun for us. I will post photos of us doing shoulder balances on her balancing chair later on. During the hour long session with Liane we did a lot of forward bends which everyone seemed to enjoy, Liane's classes are much more intense but the body and mind benefit quite a lot from it. After our yoga session we had brunch and did henna, I'll also post more pictures of that. When I started hosting this I never thought it would be something I do regularly but it seems to be growing and everyone who attends really loves the calmness that yoga brings to them after every session, I'm really glad I started this and I am more grateful to everyone that attends regularly.