Explore Yoga with Gabby

Join me! Tomorrow morning from 6:00am-7:00am for an invigorating and energizing yoga flow to start your day 💪🏼✨✌🏼️
Interested in the benefits that come from yoga first thing in the morning?
* Sets a positive intention for your day
* Meditation for mental clarity
* Boost your digestive system
* No more procrastination
* We are typically tighter in the morning - great way to open up and get rid of kinks for the remainder of your day!
Check out the beautiful studio & sign-up for class here: www.shalawellness.com

Find yourself stressed during the holiday season!? Here's an article to help get YOU on your mat:

7 Tips for Sticking with Your Asana Practice During the Holidays The holiday season is a time for family, food, and presents, but unfortunately, not a lot of time for exercise or relaxation. Try these tips to stick to your asana practice this season.

Celebrate the masterpiece of YOU! Begin on your mat, tomorrow morning, and become master of your inner peace.

Why not start your day with gratitude, power, and some sweat? 🤩✨🔥💦
Join me!

Drop is *only* $10!
6:00a - 7:00a

See you on the mat!

This morning will provide another opportunity to PLAY!

Join me at Ananda Shala Yoga, Pilates and More from 12:00p - 1:30p for an Inversion Workshop!

**All-levels are welcome!

Click here to read more and sign up (it's not too late) : http://anandashala.com/offers-events/

This is going to be a wonderful week ahead as we start to move up the spine to the higher chakras. This week we will focus on the throat chakra!

Second Chakra: Vissudha (purification), Fifth Chakra

Element: Sound

Color: Bright Blue

This chakra -located at the throat- governs communication, creativity, listening, resonance, and finding one's own voice.

Ever notice disorders of the throat, ears, voice or neck? Tightness of the jaw? Toxicity in the body? These physical malfunctions can all be associated with an imbalance fifth chakra.

On your mat this week we will focus loosening the neck and shoulders to increase blood and energy flow to the brain.

Catch me on the mat this week:

Sunday: 10:00a - 11:30a Vinyasa Flow
at Ananda Shala Yoga, Pilates and More

Tuesday/ Thursday: 6:00a - 7:00a Vinyasa Flow
at Ananda Shala Yoga, Pilates and More

Saturday: 10:30a - 11:45a Yin-Yasa
at CrossFit Frederick

Inversions are so effective that you can achieve a lot of benefits just by inverting 3-5 mins every day.

- Relieves Spinal Pain
One of the basic advantages of inversions is that it relieves spinal pain to a great extent. It enables a person to have a better posture.

- Improves Blood Circulation
Inversions increase the blood flow to the brain, giving it more oxygen and nutrients and making the brain function faster and better. This improves concentration, memory, observation and boosts clear thinking.

- Controlling Indigestion
Inversions are the yogic approach to control indigestion. Indigestion, which may cause anxiety and skin disorders, is considerably improved when one practices inversions.

- Decreasing Mood Swings
Standing upside down can actually make you feel better! When blood circulation gets fine, this releases neurotransmitters, balances the hormones which make a person feel light hearted and more happy than usual. So, if you are really sad, try doing inversions! It might make you feel a lot better!

- Enhancing Immunity
Inversions increase the ability of a person’s body to fight with diseases. Since it cleans the blood, an overall healthy feeling is maintained.

- Countering Insomnia
Inversions also help to decrease insomnia. When your mind is all relaxed and in high spirits because of the healthy blood flow, a person will be able to sleep better.

- Look Beautiful and Feel Beautiful
This is an amazing benefit of inversions. Inversions can actually make you beautiful. When a person’s posture is improved through inversion, it shows grace, poise and sophistication. Good circulation will automatically bring brightness to the skin making the person look younger than he/she originally is. Acne and other skin conditions will also tend to decrease with performing inversions.

- Flexibility
Inversion makes the body flexible and adaptable to changes. A flexible body remains healthy and strong even when it reaches old age.

- Maintaining Proper Posture
For athletes or workers who perform lots of physical work, inversion is the best to keep the spine in proper posture. It will also reduce tardiness and will gain back your strength after a workout. Inversion therapy works wonders for the lower back pain caused by this physical work. It also helps reduce muscle pain.

- Strengthening Bones
Inversion helps to make ligaments strong which are one of the basic elements of your bones. Ligaments hold your bones together. When they’re strong, you will often be saved from a bone breaking accident.

Stress Therapy
Inversion is an amazing therapy to counter stress. When a person is under a lot of stress, his body tends to revolt by back pains, headaches and joint muscle pains.

Check out the article on the benefits of inversions here: http://www.bewellbuzz.com/…/alternative-medicine/inversions/

Yay!! We are working our way up and this week the focus in each class I teach will be on the fourth chakra |Heart Chakra|

This is such a beautiful and divine chakra to focus on. The heart chakra is located at the center of your body; your heart. It is where the lower chakra and the upper chakras meet. Heaven and Earth.
The heart chakra is alllll about balance.
Balance leads to harmony.

"To heal the heart is to reunite mind and body, the mystical and mundane, self and other into an integrated whole."

"Without love, there is no binding force to hold our world together. Without love, our Rainbow Bridge collapse in the middle and we fall into the chasm of seperation below."

This week the postures will revolve around heart openers. Heart openers are known to combat depression and anxiety. They leave you feeling energized, uplifted and open!

How amazing would it be if our week was filled with compassion, love, empathy, self-love, peace and balance? Those are all characteristics of a balanced heart chakra

Did you know that each chakra associates with a basic, inalienable right?

Throughout life and all of it's lovely encounters these rights can become lost and unfamiliar to our subconscious.

Reclaiming these rights are a vital part of healing the chakras.

Root Chakra (Chakra One) The right to be here.

Sacral Chakra (Chakra Two) The right to feel.

Solar Plexus Chakra (Chakra Three) The right to act.

Heart Chakra (Chakra Four) The right to love and be loved.

Throat Chakra (Chakra Five) The right to speak and hear truth.

Third Eye Chakra (Chakra Six) The right to see.

Crown Chakra (Chakra Seven) The right to know.

Come check out my classes and learn more about the chakras and how they can enhance your well-being!

See you on the mat!

*This approach is from an amazing book:
"Eastern Body, Western Mind" by Anodea Judith

I'm excited for another week of chakra focus!

It's so amazing to teach because in return I end up learning so much!

This week we will focus on and balance our third chakra. This chakra deals with issues of willpower, ambition, action, digestion and metabolism.

This means core! Lots of core work! The element for this chakra is fire. :)

Get on your mat and let's transform!
This week join me:

Sunday: 10:00a - 11:30a Yoga Flow Level 2/3

Tues/Thurs 6:00a - 7:00a Sunrise Yoga Flow |All-Levels|
$10 drop-in

Saturday: 10:30a - 11:45a Yin-Yasa |All-Levels|
$10 drop in

“Instead, will is the realization that we can regard each challenge as an opportunity to awaken to our highest potential. This does not deny what has come before, but incorporates it, using it as a springboard for the future. While we can’t always control what happens to us, we can control what we do about it.”

The quote above is a beautiful embodiment of the awareness that is brought when we focus on and balance our second chakra.

Teaching about the chakras in my yoga classes directly teaches them to me on a very deep level.

It's funny how life works... the universe is so responsive. Anything that I begin to work on and acknowledge internally shows up in my life outwardly with a big BANG. I guess I have to see those moments as opportunities to put into action what I so deeply figured out within.

“Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.”

This week learn about your second chakra!

Second Chakra: svadisthana chakra (Sacral Chakra)

Element: Water

Color: Orange

This chakra -located just below the navel- governs self-wroth, desire, sensuality, and creativity.

Get on your mat and balance the energy center of creativity! Balancing this chakra means hips, lots of hips :)

Keep an eye out this evening for a breakdown on this chakra and other ways to support your Sacral Chakra off your mat.

Catch me on the mat this week:
Sunday: 10:00a - 11:30a Vinyasa Flow
at Ananda Shala Yoga, Pilates and More

Tuesday/ Thursday: 6:00a - 7:00a Vinyasa Flow
at Ananda Shala Yoga, Pilates and More

Saturday: 10:30a - 11:45a Yin-Yasa
at CrossFit Frederick