{"id":1360,"date":"2011-01-01T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T17:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2011-01-03T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T17:49:29","slug":"opening-the-new-year-with-yoga-sat-1030am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/opening-the-new-year-with-yoga-sat-1030am\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening the New Year with Yoga.  Sat 1030am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pranayama: Seated Sahaja (natural breath), Dirgha (3 part breath) done slowly to prepare for the adventure of the practice of Yoga.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the hands with a few hand stretches, cat rolls, cat hip circles, crossing the leg over to admire the foot and to feel the stretch.\u00a0 Toe stretch, toe balance and stretching the top of the foot.\u00a0 Ankle rolls, inversion and eversion of the leg, reverse table, Navasana with a little more abdominal work by coming into 1\/2 Ardha Navasana.<\/p>\n<p>Sun Salutation A variation adding in some twists.\u00a0 Moving into standing postures with Warrior 2, Side angle, Triangle, Moon Triangle, Warrior 2 then to the other side.\u00a0 Balance today was Crane, seagull, airplane, star and back to crane.<\/p>\n<p>The floor was for strengthening the back with cobra 1\/boat flow and a swan added in as well as a twist and a thigh stretch.\u00a0\u00a0 Some twists and forward folds concluded the asana practice.\u00a0 Aromatherapy and Savasana<\/p>\n<p>Aromatherapy today was Shanti Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pranayama: Seated Sahaja (natural breath), Dirgha (3 part breath) done slowly to prepare for the adventure of the practice of Yoga. Opening the hands with a few hand stretches, cat rolls, cat hip circles, crossing the leg over to admire the foot and to feel the stretch.\u00a0 Toe stretch, toe balance and stretching the top &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/opening-the-new-year-with-yoga-sat-1030am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Opening the New Year with Yoga.  Sat 1030am<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,24,27,20],"tags":[119,88],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balance","category-core","category-forward-folds","category-standing-strength","tag-alignment-focus","tag-back-strength"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4fffs-lW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shantivinyasa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}