Tangled Yoga

27/02/2022

My Dear Friends, I have this unstoppable urge to help somehow refugees from Ukraine🇺🇦 Those poor people are queuing now in Polish-Ukrainian border and seek asylum. The process is slow but proceeds. Once they are accepted to Poland, they need the place to stay, food do eat, psychological, legal and material help.

I would like to invite you to my two Wednesday yoga classes where all the income will be donated to Polish NGO Ocalenie Foundation () - an NGO supporting refugees and immigrants in Poland.

Each class costs 20€.
Class at - please book via studio website. Thank you UL for supporting the initiative 🙏🏻

Yoga in Luxembourg - Vinyasa Flow and Yin Yoga in Luxembourg City

02/02/2022

Jalandhara Bandha, the Throat Lock, with Mula and Uddiyana Bandha, is one of the interior "locks" used to control and harness the flow of energy✨ through the body, temporarily preventing prana from moving up.🔃

It is believed by mistics that Jalandhara bandha slows down Amrita (the nectar of longevity) to go down from our third eye to the stomach, where it is burned down by the digestive fire - Agni🔥.

Nowadays is more commonly used during Pranayama practice, although the exception is in poses like Shoulderstand and Bridge, where bringing the chest toward the chin to create the Throat Lock is inherent to the posture itself.

How to apply it correctly? Lengthen you spine (either in standing or seated) and bring your chin towards your chest. Do not force it - they don't need to touch each other. Relax your shoulders, throat and fascial muscles. Ideally hold it after you take a breath in. Keep it as long as it feels comfortable and release it.

24/01/2022

Just wanted to remind you, that being kind, selflessly good and supportive towards the other does not make you anyhow “less”, but makes the world better place to live.

Say something kind to the person right next to you, complement your colleague, sand a smile to a stranger, give a place to those that need it more.. just be good 🙏🏻



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12/12/2021

Are you stressed and tired? 🥵Looking for a perfect self-spoiling gadget that will help you to calm down and relax?🥰
Make yourself a special gift 🎁 or give it to beloved one who needs to relax. 😴
✨Here I offer you a handmade (.ture) satin eye pillows filled with dry lavender flowers and flax seeds.💆🏼‍♀️

🌾🌷Lavender scent is known for its calming effect on the body and mind, helping you to wind down and relax. It smells amazingly good and the satin cover together with flax seeds give you gentle cooling in the area of your tired eyes.

Pillow consists of satin cover and cotton pillow with or without zipper. If you choose the option with the zipper you will be able to refill the pillow with the new scents, if you would wish so.

The pillow is perfect for meditation, Savasana (if you are a yogi), just before the sleep or any time you need to relax.

Details:
🎋Length 24,5 cm, width 8 cm
💐Colors available: navy blue, green, pale pink and burgundy
🌺Cost:
- Without zipper: 18€
- With zipper: 20€
- Packed as a gift: + 3€
📦Delivery options
- Pick up in Schuttrange or airport
- Shipment via post (+ 5€)
📩 PM me for orders or email me at kasia@tangled.yoga

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12/12/2021

✨Make yourself a special gift ✨or give it to beloved one who needs a comfy support 🎁
Here I offer you a handmade sustainable yoga bolsters filled with buckwheat hulls.

✨BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED & EXTREMELY VERSATILE: Great for beginners and advanced yoga practitioners alike, yoga poses, meditation, decorating your couch or bed, relaxing in your home, or even as a sleep aid for spine, neck, and limb support.

✨PROPER SPINE SUPPORT: Eases getting up from hard floors, relieves stress on joints and properly supports your spine during yoga poses, when exercising, meditating, sitting in a chair, or relaxing. Helps to reduce the risk of numb limbs when meditating for moderate to long periods of time. This multipurpose cushion can also double as a yoga block when stretching or posing. Crescent design allows user to tuck their feet closer to their body to reduce lower leg stress during certain yoga poses.

✨BUCKWHEAT HULLS FEATURES: Natural and hypoallergenic, easily adjusting its shape to your needs, without loosing its primary features, emits nagative ions creating friendly bio-field for human body, preserves optimal humidity, blocking development of bacteria, mould, fungi or mites.

🌿Material: removable cover and pillow - 100% cotton
🍀Dimensions: 70cm x 18cm, Weight: 4kg
🌾100% Sustainable fill of buckwheat hulls
🌺Price: 40€

PM me for orders or email me at kasia@tangled.yoga

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05/12/2021

Vata, the most mobile, lively and restless dosha of all. Like a wind, constantly in move, the most subtle and lightest. Consist of space and air element. To understand the Vata nature, it's helpful to get to know the qualities of both elements.

Space (Ether)
Medium in which all substances exist. Space provides the mind the qualities of awareness, expansiveness, stability and witness consciousness. Space can be seen in the hollow cavities in the body such as the lungs and bones

Air
Also known as prana, expresses itself as respiration and circulation in the body. As a subtle phenomenon it has the quality of lightness and movement, sensation, flexibility, creative thought.

Gunas (Qualities): Dry, Light, Cold, Subtle, Mobile, Rough, Hard

Location (Main seat): Colon

Time of the day: 2-6 AM/PM

Cycle of life: Old age

Season: Fall/ Early Winer

Action: Movement, Nervous system, Respiration, Memory, Creativity

26/10/2021

✨When women come together, something special happens.✨

I would like to invite you for Virtual Global Women's retreat November 13 & 14.🧘🏼‍♀️🙏🏻

This is the last project that I will be part of this year, but I am so sure it's going to be very special… With 11 talented teacher all over the world we will be enhancing feminine energy through ceremonies, ancient teachings, movement practices, breathwork, meditation, music, singing and much more.

There will be additional time throughout the retreat so that you can meet other women giving you sense of real connections to the women around the globe.

➡️Please find registration link in bio!

💚Early Bird price: 87 USD (ends Oct 31)
💜Regular price: $177 USD

14/10/2021

Uddiyana Bandha, the abdominal lock, by many is misunderstood as a simple abdominal muscles contraction, which is true, but only to some extend and doesn't really express the whole application of that lock.

This particular lock is helpful some some yoga asnas transitions, especially for the arm balances and inversions. One of the most common way of applying it, is the transition from Down dog to Utanasana (forward fold). For sure you saw some yogis doing this transition so effortless, almost floating in the air before they land on the mat. Well.. this is the magic of applying the Uddiyana bandha in practice.

How to apply it correctly? Being either in standing or seated position, round your spine gently like for the "cat". Take your inhale, then exhale and without taking another breath just suck your abdominals up and in. You know that you make this lock correctly, when you feel this indentation between your collar bones, as you suck the whole energy up.

It's not really easy to get to the full Uddiyana bandha on, but it gets better within the time, if practiced regularly. The best time to practice it is either in the morning, after the elimination or at least 3-5 hours after last meal.

11/10/2021

Life shouldn't just happen to us.

Waiting for a chance, for a change, for love or for happiness doesn't bring us anyway closer to them. It is the choice that we make everyday that can bring us closer to our aim. Just become change yourself.

Dreams don't come true to those who only dream. Dreams come true to those that are fight for them.

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10/10/2021

Three Doshas - The Three Mind/Body Types

Dosha literally means impurity. The doshas in their balanced states maintain harmony in the body/mind. In Ayurveda this impurity, or dosha, refers to when a dosha becomes out of balance in the tissues. Each dosha is composed of all the five elements; however, in each of the 3 doshas, two elements are predominant.

Vata: air 🌪and space 🌄
Vata is characterized by the subtle energy of movement. Governs the nervous system, breathing, muscle movement and tissue movement.

Pitta: fire🔥 and water 🌊
Pitta is the energy of transformation, particularly of metabolism and digestion, absorption and assimilation (not only of food, but also of ideas, emotion and sensory input,) and body temperature.

Kapha: water 🌊 and earth 🪨
Kapha governs lubrication, structure, bodily tissues, fluids, lubricates joints, maintains skin moisture and immunity. The water and earth combination of kapha dosha provide the cohesion of the body cells.

07/10/2021

You may have heard on your yoga classes teacher saing "activate your Mula Bandha". But do you know, what that actually means? 🤔

If you read previous posts about Bandhas, you already know that "bandha" means "to block" or "to lock". In this particular case if we are talking about the anatomical action within the body, it is more like "to lift" or "to pull up".

"Mula" means "root" and it sits in the bottom of our pelvis -perineum, between a**s and ge****ls. So by activating Mula bandha we understand this lift or pull of the pelvic floor muscles up. Usually women are more familiar with activation of these muscles (either because of birth or exercising Kegel's muscles), but if you still cannot really locate those muscles within your body, imagine yourself this pull up contraction when you want to stop stream of urine when being in toilet 🚽- now you know the muscles, don't you?😅

Mula bandha is located in the pelvic floor 🧘🏼‍♀️and gentle pull up of its muscles activates also our low abdominals and low back muscles, which stabilizes the bottom of our spine. It stimulates also our organs that are right above. Once you do it, you may feel a bit more as a "whole" or "in one piece", 🤗 if you know, what I mean.

On the energetic level ✨, once Mula bandha is activated, it prevents from "energy leaking" and therefore helps to move the energy from our "Root chakra", which is located in the same place, upward.

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05/10/2021

How many time you denied or ignored uncomfortable feeling, emotion or sensation coming from your physical body.

The growth starts in acknowledging and accepting the discomfort. Instead of losing your energy to fight it back, just surrender to it. Accept your position.

We are all drawn to all the pleasant and positive sensations but life has such a spectrum of the experiences. Ironically, we wouldn't be able to appreciate and acknowledging them without the contrast with the negative ones.

Take a long breath and just observe how it is to be in discomfort, tame it as the only way out is through.

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