Yoga in Times Square: If I can do it there, I'll do it anywhere!
June 21 is Summer Solstice, and that means a lot to us yogis.
The position of the planets, the distance from the earth to the sun, all those star alignments...it's all supposed to mean something powerful to human bodies. And what better way to use your body than yoga?
Does it really mean something? Like everything else, solstice has the meaning you give it.
I love playing along. And while I love practicing yoga, my fascination these past 40 years, and what my blog, my online yoga community, even our hot yoga classes at Riverflow Yoga are really about is: how can you apply that good feeling you get doing yoga, into a good-feeling life?
If you can feel happy/successful/relaxed/accomplished in the hot yoga, can you translate that feeling outside and into your life?
And does it work even better in the company of others?
So on June 21, I am going to join with thousands of people celebrating the Summer Solstice with yoga. I am headed to Times Square NY to do my yoga under the sun: 7:25AM yoga preceeded by a meditation - not exactly sunrise but close.
It feels cool to be part of a Happening. I'll report back here on the experience. Stay tuned!
Rhonda Uretzky, E-RYT
Reader Comments (3)
Amen. I looked up the exact definition of summer solstice and it corresponds to the sun's greatest distance from the equator. It's going to be over the tropic of cancer. I love all these astro-geo inferences. The etymology of solstice in Indo-European roots comes from statium or stoppage. I think the most beautiful thing about us is that we are the most intimate level of the universe; like atoms in studies of quantum physics. We operate on such a micro level in relation to the great big Universe but we are all so Powerful. I'm so excited for you Miss Rhonda. Please take pics if ya can!
Photos and more coming on the next installment of this blog post!
Let's get a Riverflow team together for next year - I'm in!