4-week Yoga Series Coming Up

Join me for a 4-week Beginners yoga series at Brookville Healing Arts in Chevy Chase, MD starting September 9

This 4-week series is designed for those who wish to explore yoga’s amazing benefits. Each week covers a different theme that will bring you nourishment on all levels. Get ready to build strength, become more flexible and increase your energy level. 

Week 1; Ground & Connect, improve your balance and strengthen your lower body 

Week 2; Open & Release, open your hips and free up tension and tightness

Week 3; Fire & Flow, strengthening your core and enjoy the benefits of twisting asanas

Week 4; Heart Opening, stimulate and open your heart center, strengthen your upper body to improve your posture 

Dates: Tuesdays; September 9, 16, 23 and 30

Time: 9-10:15AM

Cost: $110 for all 4 classes

Where: Brookville Healing Arts, 7019 Brookville Rd, Chevy Chase

Registration: email me at annahelenapril@me.com to sign up. Spot is not secure until payment is received

                                       

Namaste,

Helén

Short & Effective Meditation

Look into your own heart.

Who looks outside, dreams;

Who looks inside, awakes.

~Carl Jung

I hope you are savoring these late summer days!

Wherever we are, vacation or not, it is so important to pause, enjoy the moment and really connect to our core. It’s in these reflective moments we can find clarity. For me it’s when I get my best ideas.

I encourage you to take a moment and just pause, breathe and connect with yourself. I’ve created a short and effective meditation that will make you feel grounded and connected. We start the meditation with a mudra that is very powerful. Mudras are yoga in your hands that can create a healing quality from within.  Anyone can enjoy these healing mysterious gestures while sitting, standing, lying down or walking. Meditation is a wonderful tool to recharge, refocus and reconnect to your inner self.

When to meditate? 

Best time is to meditate first thing in the morning, after your asana practice or before going to bed. 

Click here to view the meditation video.

Namaste,

Helén

A Chakra Flow Video

Wake up the energies in your sacral chakra with this sequence and get an overall feeling of balance and harmony.

Click here to view the video.

Motivation Monday

Happy Monday!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I had a good weekend in Washington D.C. but Sunday was a little stressful because we had to take our cat Deedou to the emergency, but he will be ok. I’m so grateful for these 24/7 animal hospitals. I think my stress level had been so much higher if I hadn’t done my morning practice. I did a new yogini workout and it felt great. I wrote down the sequence so I can create a video and share it on the LBY community. 

Sometimes we need a little “motivation-boost” for our practice. So I put together a list of points that I find very helpful in boosting my motivation. I hope it can help you too when you’re in need of a little motivation!

-Write down why you are practicing yoga and how it makes you feel! Take a POST YOGA moment to write it down. How does it feel in your body, breath and mind!? Write it all down and then go back to those notes when you’re in need of motivation.

-Create a space for your yoga practice. Organize the space in the evening so it looks really inviting when you wake up in the morning. Roll out the yoga mat, put out the props and lay out your yoga clothes. 

-Have an accountability partner. Tell someone about your practice and then check in with them later. LBY members; share your practice on LBY. Go to the community and write about your practice and how it makes you feel. We will hold you accountable!!!

-Is it the length of the practice that makes you not want to do it? Sometimes we think that we need to do a 60 minutes or longer practice to get the benefits but that is not true. Instead of not doing anything just do a 5 minute practice or just a few asanas. Even though the practice is short you will feel a shift. 

-Plan in your practice in your calendar. Figure out a time that will work the best and just do it. It’s all about priorities. LBY members; print out your yoga calendar and put it up where you can see it everyday. 

-REFLECT ON YOUR BIGGEST EXCUSES TO NOT GET GOING WITH YOUR PRACTICE AND SEE IF YOUR EXCUSES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND SANITY. 

Yoga for the love of it!!

Namaste,

Helén

Welcome

Hello,

My name is Helén Andersson Sears and welcome to Living Bliss Yoga Blog. Through this blog I hope to motivate and inspire you to make yoga become a part of your lifestyle.

I love my daily practice. It makes me feel alive and vibrant. I want you to love your practice too. I want you to have a joyful, deep and nourishing experience. When we take action and practice consistently there is a powerful shift that happens within. Having a home yoga practice is empowering and it brings us nourishment on all levels.  

For so long I had this dream about having my own practice that I could come to everyday. A practice that would make me feel strong, empowered, alive and vibrant. A practice that I could do in the comfort of my home and make it a part of my lifestyle. 

I started this process of creating a home yoga practice in 2009. In the beginning I felt unsure and I didn’t know what was right or wrong. Well what I learned along the way is that there is really no right or wrong way, just different. So I made it my way and I want to share that with you. It’s not about mastering a difficult pose, it’s about getting into the flow of the practice. It’s not about doing a perfect practice, it’s about enjoying the practice. It’s about tapping into your inner strength and discover your true self, and feeling good and fit in body, mind, heart and spirit.  

YOGA FOR THE LOVE OF IT!

Namaste,

Helén