The Yoga Pantry

12/03/2026

08/03/2026

Monday Mudra 🧚‍♀️
Svasti Mudra - Gesture of well-being

Svasti means "well-being," "prosperity," "success" and "blessing." Svasti mudra cultivates an aura of protective energy within all dimensions of our being.
Especially from any negativity projected by others.

This gesture is also helpful for neutralizing energy from negative environments.

The crossed arms and upraised hands deflect negative projections, both from those who intend
harm and from those who believe they are acting in our best interests, but
lack the understanding to perceive our true needs.

As we deflect these negative energies, we rest in our own center more easily, attuning to the wisdom of our inner being to guide our journey.

Svasti mudra directs breath, awareness and energy into the chest, side ribs and upper back, expanding breath capacity. As the breath fills the chest, it creates a massaging effect that enhances circulation to the thymus gland.

Svasti mudra instills the courage and confidence needed to remain centered
in the face of negative energy. This gesture also supports us in living with
our heart open while maintaining healthy boundaries, further enhancing our ability to neutralize negativity.

Additionally, this mudra brings breath to the back of the body, creating a massaging effect in the area of the kidneys and
adrenal glands, giving us the energy to meet challenges more effectively.

As it directs breath and awareness to the back of the body, this gesture also
supports optimal postural alignment and the release of tension from the upper back, especially between the shoulder blades.

Joseph and Lilian Le Page - Mudras for healing and transformation

03/03/2026

A lot of social media depicts "Yoga" as the first list, and while I agree with all the points in the second list, I disagree with the term "advanced yoga". First of all, Yoga is not just exercise, stretching and contorting the body, that's called asana. Only one of the 8 limbs of Yoga. Yoga is a holistic practice/lifestyle that incorporates how we behave, how we treat ourselves and others, how we make life choices, breathe, meditate, move and find stillness. It's soooooo much more that just the physical practice, it's so much more than just meditation and breathing, it's so much more, that it takes a lifetime to practice, and still there is more to discover.

03/03/2026

This week’s Yogi Note explores the path of selfless action: showing up fully, acting with integrity, and releasing attachment to results.

Karma Yoga isn’t about grand gestures.
It’s about small, conscious actions done with love and then letting go. 🤲✨

Plant the seed. Do the work. Trust the rest.



https://the-yoga-pantry.kit.com/posts/your-yogi-note-karma-yoga-the-path-of-selfless-action

01/03/2026

Monday Mudra 🌌Akasha mudra - for activating the space element

Akasha means space, and is the name for the space element, whose qualities include vastness, expansiveness limitlessness and subtlety.

The space element is the most subtle of the five elements and is the matrix that encompasses all of the other elements. At their physical level, space is an essential feature of our physiology, forming the body's hollow cavities, including the lungs, stomach, intestines and bladder.

The quality of spaciousness is also important at the level of our psycho-emotional being.

By creating Space around heavy and dense thoughts and feelings we gain the ability to not identify with them so completely.

Spaciousness is also important for seeing
beyond our limiting beliefs, thereby allowing us to unfold our infinite possibilities.

Akasha mudra activates the space element and supports the integration of
its essential qualities. This gesture directs breath, awareness and energy into
the throat and neck, the seat of the space element.

The enhanced awareness
and breath in this area increase circulation to the area of the thyroid gland,
supporting its optimal health.

The space element is related to the sense of hearing, and Akasha mudra cultivates a space of inner listening in which we
receive guidance for our life journey.

This gesture supports us in sensing the presence of space more palpably within our own bodies and surroundings.

As we attune to the spaciousness within and around us we naturally perceive the all-pervading intelligence and energy within all of creation.

Joseph and Lilian Le Page - Mudras for healing and transformation

24/02/2026

You don’t have to be strong all the time.

If you’re the one who remembers everything…
holds everything…
organises everything…
absorbs everyone else’s emotions…

When was the last time you were held?

Join me for two sacred hours of Restorative Yoga.

No performing.
No pushing.
No pretending you’re not tired.

Just bolsters. Blankets. Stillness.
And space to gently lay it all down.

Restorative yoga activates your parasympathetic nervous system, the part responsible for healing, hormone balance, digestion, deep recovery. The part that only comes online when you finally feel safe enough to soften.

Sunday 8 March | 5–7pm
The Yoga Pantry, Mt Eden

Come and be supported.
Come and exhale.
Come and remember what calm feels like.

Spaces are limited. Book your mat now.

https://www.theyogapantry.com/Workshops.php

23/02/2026

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