The summer days bring in a blanket of thick, moist, warm air. We are experiencing humidity and heat, and yet, the loud vibration of the cicadas has passed as they return to the moist soil for another 17 years of sleep. We have arrived at the heart of summer, welcoming the month of July as the world keeps spinning with noise and distraction and the constant fluctuation of extremes.

Staying in a state of balance is mandatory now, as the mind’s habit is to wander into a summer haze of confusion. Our nervous systems will react quickly to bite. Being overheated physically can burn us out emotionally. We know that health is a state of mind; the mind’s nature is to roam, and we need a practice of focusing to slow down and stay present. In a world of rushing and doing, how do we cool the mind down and feel the ease of just being?  

 YAF is a place to come inward and share within a community the practice of feeling at ease. To cool the agitation of our outer distractions filled with our inner stories of constant struggle. Life is beautiful, and we need to experience the peaceful sanctuary of feeling safe. Our minds must be able to come inward to heal our physical and emotional bodies, and health is our abundance.  

We have to create space and time to practice. Coming into YAF offers us a safe harbor to get on the floor and breathe. Let the tensions of overthinking shift to an experience of feeling relaxed. Feel the calm that can wash over us as the physical body releases the tension. It takes practice, but this is what yoga offers us—a way to feel the experience of relaxation in being present.

We are not an exercise studio offering only a “workout in heat.” We are a healing studio that uses the practice of yoga to feel the sweet ease of letting the body become stronger as the mind releases its grip on the tensions in the body. The effect is a quality of peaceful coolness. I always say that until one experiences the words I say, they mean nothing. Yoga is all experiential.

How can I explain the feeling of riding a bicycle? I can describe it in terms that only make sense to the intellect, but actually taking that first moment of balance and ride is an individual moment, which is the intelligence feeling the effort. A teacher who inspires and nourishes the effect of feeling balanced is the magic.

Come and enjoy our wonderful teachers as they guide you inward through the brilliance that all yoga is restoring our balance. Yoga is a state of balance as our nervous systems are restored, and our hearts can open to the beauty of being alive. Healing is a state of balance.

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Love and light,

Laura Jane