Alaina Spencer

✨Practice with me ✨

My weekly schedule:
Wednesday 7 am
Wednesday 6 pm My Vinyasa Practice]]
Wednesday 7:30 pm My Vinyasa Practice]]
Friday 7 am My Vinyasa Practice]]

We move and stretch and breath and be mindful and come back to ourselves in a safe environment 💛

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Hips Flow - snippets from my new YouTube practice focused on the hips - head to the link in my bio to practice it

3 new yoga videos on my YouTube channel ¨̮

If you want to practice with me, head to my new youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIka6gODSfA56zpzdSuVjBg/featured :)

Yoga with Alaina

Sometimes it’s really hard to make myself go to yoga.

Sometimes it’s when I’m in a bad headspace. I convince myself that this is just how it is for the day. There’s nothing I can do about it (which is not true).

But sometimes it’s when I’m in a good headspace. When I’ve been consistently doing yoga and writing, I convince myself that I’m feeling okay. I don’t need yoga today. It’s like when you’re taking medicine to get over an illness and you start to feel better on day 5, but the doctor said to take 10 days worth of medicine. You stop taking the medicine on day 5 because you’re feeling fine but then you get sick again. I easily get in this cycle with yoga. So I have to make reminders for myself to go. I have to force myself to go sometimes. I have to practice discipline.

Sometimes (a lot of the times) when I make it to class, my mind is still racing and I’m constantly looking at the clock wondering when class will be over, but I always leave feeling lighter, more at peace with my mind, and more equipped to face all the things.

Discipline and consistency are important, especially when I think I don’t need either.

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It’s been a summer of hard growth and changes in all necessary and good ways. While my natural desire is to turn away when things in life get hard, yoga teaches me how to stay and allow the difficulty to bring change and growth. By tuning into my breath and physically moving my body, I create space to hold the hard things.

In related news, Free Yoga Brunch is back next Sunday September 29th! Mark your calendars.

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I realized during practice today that when hard poses come my first instinct is to only do them half way, not fully trying or pressing in. I think this is my same first instinct when hard things come in life. I don’t want to press into them, I want to barely deal with them and then move on. But yoga also teaches me that only by pressing in and fully committing to the hard can I grow. I cannot grow if I skip over or only halfway do the hard things.

Today my yoga practice is teaching me how to be okay in the discomfort. You cannot avoid experiences. You can only move through them. Much of life is lived in the discomfort. I’m thankful for a practice that teaches me how to be okay in that.