Yoga Theme: Phoenix Rising Sequence

Rise from the ashes with the Phoenix Rising Sequence, a dynamic yoga class designed to cultivate balance and harmony in both body and mind.

This practice emphasizes grounding through the feet and opening the shoulders, creating a solid foundation to help you soar. We’ll begin with a brief introduction to trigger point therapy, exploring key pressure points to release tension and restore balance. Over the next 3 weeks, we’ll practice this mini-series, progressing through a powerful sequence that strengthens the connection between grounded stability and expansive freedom. Step onto your mat, open your heart, and rise

Learn How Trigger Point Therapy can improve your Yoga Practice

Fun Facts

• 26 Bones
• 33 Joints
• 19 Muscles
• 107 ligaments
• Over 200,000 Never Endings

Poem to Enjoy

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

• Maya Angelou – And Still I Rise

Playlist of the Week

At the end of the playlist I’ve added a recording of Maya Angelou preforming this poem. It is pretty cool, stop for 3 minutes to enjoy the listen!