Benefits:
Stretches spine.
Strengthens arms.
Improves balance.
Foundation & General Alignment:
Instead of knees resting on each elbow, both knees are resting on one elbow.
Head can be looking down towards ground or same way as legs.
Shoulders are back and away from ears.
Back is curved.
Belly is pulling back towards spine.
Sometimes life calls for a breaking down of the old reality in order to facilitate the birthing of the new. This is not always a pleasant realization to have and yet, using the power of mantra, such a time can transform from something potentially painful and full of resistance into a supportive experience of the transcendent new.
OM NAMA SHIVAYA
Brushing your teeth with conventional toothpaste can do more harm than good. That's because conventional toothpaste has a bunch of questionable ingredients. Want to create a more natural, holistic dental care routine? Here's how to ditch conventional products and get a holistic dental care routine down.
Planetary Transits & Cosmic Interplay for the week of Sep 9–15
The Karmic Tools Weekly Forecast covers the current planetary transits which affect people in different ways and to various degrees of intensity. Take notice when it is a Personal planet (Sun / Moon / Mercury / Venus / Mars) interacting with a Social (Jupiter/Saturn) or Collective planet (Uranus / Neptune/Pluto). And pay extremely close attention when it is a Social planet interacting with a Collective planet because that means something *big* is brewing that will move large groups of people along their evolutionary paths. Tun
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