Summer Solstice

Theme: during the brightest day of the year shine out your own light and thank the sun for its ongoing blessings. 

Ancedote: Summer solstice. The word solstice comess from the Latin solstitium: from sol (sun) and stitium (to stop).

The Summer Solstice, Midsummer, Litha, has long been celebrated across the globe as a potent reminder that even in the peak of the most light we begin the long return towards the dark. Summer Solstice is a celebration of the light while remembering that the dark days are coming. Today let's honor and celebrate the Sun as the source of all light and life force on the Earth. This week, make time to stop and acknowledge how far you’ve come and ritually set your intentions for the second half of the year until winter solstice, for as William Shakespeare wrote,"Whatever is dreamed on this night, will come to pass."

Apex: Backbends shine out the light of your head 

Upa: muscle energy and organic energy. Feeling the pulsation between pulling into the dark and shining out the light in alignment with nature. The past few months we have been focusing on the psoas muscles using the alignment principles thigh loop, kidney loop and shoulder loop that will be integrated through out the sequence. 

Sequence:

Warm up 

Childs pose

Sun A 5x 

Basic 

Lunge - tree- lunge

Wide leg forward fold - scandasana- scandasana 

W2 - trikonasana 

Half moon- trikonasana 

Half moon quad - trikonasana 

Harder

Wide leg forward fold head stand 

Clear neck

Half hanuman 

Ll quad- ss- handstand hop 

Pincha manyrasana L at wall 

Pincha manurasana splits 

Pincha manyurasana feet on wall reach heart through 

Apex

Dancer at wall hinging forward 

Dancer at wall upright 

Cool down 

Upright L- root femurs 

Down dog

Supta urdhva hastasana feet on wall conscious stretch psoas by keeping thighs grounded in hamstrings- ribs in and lengthening out through feet and finger tips 

Root femur foot on wall asymmetrically

Supta pada A B C strap foot on wall 

Legs up wall 

Meditation