Reaching your asana goals: patience is everything

What better way to invite positivity, set intentions and realize your goals for the New Year than through your yoga practice? The New Year is the perfect time to reflect, strengthen and manifest what you would like to add or change in your life, and having a clear mind to assess and prioritize your desires is the first step toward having the New Year you want. Yoga heals the physical body by creating more strength and flexibility so you can move through life with ease. Yoga also uses your body as a tool to uncover areas deep within the self that need to be healed. We can use our yoga practice and certain yoga poses to heal and inspire ourselves physically and mentally – which may be the key to help us find our desired path of positivity and success for the New Year.

Beginning the New Year with a solid sense of self-awareness will keep your goals and resolutions clear and in focus. When practicing yoga, be more concerned with your state of consciousness while in each pose rather than “performing” the pose as the end goal. Focus on the breath and turn your awareness inward to the temple of your own heart – you’ll be so pleased with the depth of love that you will meet.