Yoga Theme of the Week: Open Heart, Open Mind

At this week’s destination yoga classes, we’ll focus on “Open Heart, Open Mind.” Join me as we explore our inner landscapes, contemplating what makes our hearts shine. This practice encourages you to embrace your dreams and nurture the path to realizing them.

In this class, we will explore the powerful connection between the heart and the mind. Through a series of heart-opening and meditative poses, we’ll cultivate awareness of what makes our hearts shine. As we flow, we’ll engage in mindfulness practices to clear the mind and open ourselves to dreaming. This practice will encourage you to embrace what you love and foster a deeper connection with yourself. Join me in creating a harmonious balance of heart and mind, where love and self-wisdom guide your journey both on and off the mat.

Fun Facts

A healthy heart beats approximately 100,000 times each day, totaling around 35 million beats annually. Over an average lifespan of 70 years, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.

Poem of the Week

The Summer Day

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention,

how to fall down into the grass,

how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed,

how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

— Mary Oliver

Playlist of the Week