If you want to mold clay, you’ve got to knead it until it’s warm and malleable. Then you can create any form you want. Your body is the same. In yoga it requires what we call tapas, or “heat,” (also known as fire) in order to be sculpted into a sleeker shape.

Tapas also means “the fire [or heat] of transformation,” and that’s what this week’s sequence is about. The Core Standing Poses turned up the heat allowing this week’s sequence to get stronger and longer, faster.

Using my signature Transformer postures, we’ll partner concentrated bursts of strength with counter stretches that build lean muscle while opening the locked tissue in hard to reach areas like hamstring, hip, and lower back.

I call this my “resist and release” technique. When you add it to your daily practice You get more than the promised results and you get them twice as fast.

As you move, be sure to breathe deeper and slower than you think you should. Concentrate on really the final portion of the exhale making it stronger and longer. This focus is the not so secret sauce to reaching a new level in your practice as well as achieving that goal of a true blue mind-body workout.

This week we'll do:
Charlie's Angels Pose
Fierce Pose & Twist
Side Crow
Crow
Jump Back
Side Core Plank
Pigeon
One Hip Twist
Janu Sirsasana
Wide Angle

See you on the mat!
Sadie


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