Outdoor Yoga Challenge: May 2014

Our Monthly Challenge for May 2014 is: Outdoor Yoga.

May carries the potential to be one of the more delightful months of the year: Warm yet low humidity, pre-mosquito season, blooming gardens, green trees, and gentle breezes. Naturally then this is the ideal time to take your practice outside.

This may entail quiet meditation on your porch or lawn in those early morning hours. Or perhaps you and a companion will embark on a nature hike and do a few poses along the way. Or maybe you will transform your backyard into an ashram / yoga studio and do a full-on practice. However way you choose, in whatever way you are inspired to proceed, join us in this May monthly challenge. Of course we look forward to receiving your photos and tales.

Yoga itself is based on the naturally unfolding expressions of this grand cosmos. Many yoga poses emulate the inherent qualities of nature: Mountain pose, tree pose, cow and cat pose etc. These natural shapes and forms do wonders when applied to the human framework. And in meditation we are to strive for harmony, i.e. parallelism between the unit breath and cosmic breath – or unit psychic wavelength with the cosmic wavelength. Being in nature reminds us and helps us grow in our practice.

Here below are a few shots that people have sent us over the years…

#1: Ashleigh taking crow pose to new heights.

#2: Teresa in her stance of perfect equipoise

#3: Katie doing warrior II on the horizon in Bermuda.

#4: Sharon doing half-moon deep in the Maine woods

Okay – so now it is your turn. May is on the horizon – late April is also acceptable. Time now to embark on your outdoor yoga challenge.