How to Approach Spring Naturally with Yoga

Spring is fast approaching. Nature has been awakening for a few weeks now and we feel the energy rising in our bodies, making us want to get moving. Despite the rainy weather, the sun is coming out more and more and is starting to rise in the sky. The equinox is the perfect balance between day and night, between the inactive and the active, between the shadow and the light. Yoga, whatever its current, invites you to live in consciousness with the cycle of the seasons and the cosmos. Discover how this ancient practice can accompany you during spring.

After the winter break, this new season is about inspiration. It is the first season of the year and by metaphor of your life. It carries within it the impulse that is the basis of all beginnings, this new beginning, this blossoming. 


March: detox and growth

Mars is carrying you in a new momentum, giving you the desire to do the great cleaning in your homes but also in your body and mind. Yogic practice will focus on strengthening the body and awakening the mind.vital energy.

At the same time, this month invites you to review your priorities, readjust your alignment with your aspirations, sort out what you no longer want in terms of behaviors and thought patterns. As you take stock, you realize how much you have evolved. 

In March, it is important to work on anchoring. Postures such as the mountain (tadâsana), the tree or the chair (utkatâsana) have the advantage of making you aware of your feet, your roots, your supports but also of your center and your verticality. Like a tree waking up after winter rest, feel the sap flowing up your legs and throughout your body. 

Your center starts to heat up. 

Follow with seated twists (ardha matsyendrâsana) that will stimulate the energy in the spine while clearing the solar plexus. 

This posture also works on the digestionIt massages the organs of the abdomen, warms the belly, thus promoting the work of the liver and detoxification through the digestive tract. 


April: verticality and connection

Avril est le cœur du printemps. Les enchaînements seront tonifiants, revigorants afin que puissiez exprimer tout votre potentiel dans une énergie d’expansion. La pratique du yoga sera centrée sur la verticalité et la reliance (à votre monde intérieur, aux autres, à l’environnement, à l’énergie…)

Verticality is not only physical (standing tall) but also psychic (being aligned with your beliefs) and spiritual (between Heaven and Earth). "Verticality is what makes sense between your actions, words and thoughts. It is an inner reference" (source: Les saisons du yoga , B.Litzler, éd Almora) yoga , B.Litzler, éd Almora)

In order to work on this verticality, the mountain posture (tadâsana) is perfect to understand and feel the entirety of your body and its position in space. Perfectly aligned, straight, centered and anchored, the energy can flow. The mountain is powerful, strong and imposing. This posture teaches you inner and outer stability. 

The sun salutation is a sequence of postures linked by the breath. This back and forth between inhalation and exhalation, between up and down, between earth and sky, between expansion and folding makes you aware of your connection with the whole and its opposite and that one does not exist without the other.


May: in search of balance

May heralds the arrival of summer. It is the last month of spring and embarks you in an ever increasing energy of fire. You are moving ever closer to the climax which is the summer solstice. 

In order not to disperse yourself in your projects and creativity, balance is required. 

The eagle pose (garudâsana) centers and stabilizes you. Like the bird that soars above the peaks, this asana invites you to take height on the events that mark your life. 

The natarajâsana posture, which refers to the king of the dance who is none other than the god Shiva, brings balance and gathers the mind when it tends to scatter. 

As a general rule, balancing postures help to refocus and stop mental ruminations. 


To conclude

Living the seasons consciously allows you to reconnect with your emotional world and your natural biological functioning. Indeed, you are governed by an internal biological clock which, when disturbed, leads to alterations in hormonal and organic functions. By reconnecting with the natural cycles, you reconnect with yourself. 

Alexia Bernard 6 March, 2020
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