02/14/2021
Happy Valentine’s Day Loves ♥️
Join me this week for some more compassion intended yoga flows with guided Self Love Meditations sprinkled in 🥰 —
Monday 9am VinYin Flow at .yogastudio in Ormond by the Sea
Wednesday 9am VinYin at Studio in Port Orange
Thursday 5:30pm VinYin at Studio in Port Orange
Fun fact: Did you know that the earliest origins of Valentine’s Day is the pagan holiday Lupercalia, celebrating Fertility 💓🤰🏼
Lupercalia was popular and one of the few pagan holidays still celebrated 150 years after Christianity was legalized in the Roman Empire.
When Pope Gelasius came to power in the late fifth century he put an end to Lupercalia. Soon after, the Catholic church declared February 14 to be a day of feasts to celebrate the martyred Saint Valentine.
According to Noel Lenski, a historian at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Lupercalia was "clearly a very popular thing, even in an environment where the Christians are trying to close it down." In an interview with NPR Lenski theorizes that the feast was meant to replace Lupercalia. "So there's reason to think that the Christians might instead have said, okay, we'll just call this a Christian festival," he said.
In the United States, Valentine’s Day cards didn’t gain popularity until the Revolutionary War, when people took up the habit of writing handwritten notes to their sweethearts.
⭐️Enjoy this amazing piece of art, a hand painted valentine from my guys 🥰