ENGAGE your senses

🌟 ENGAGE your senses: 21 Days of Yoga with Ciara 🌟

April 1-21, 2025

Engaging your senses fully during our 20-minute daily yoga journey is an empowering way to deepen your connection to the present moment and enhance your awareness of life’s subtleties. This practice is not only about enriching your yoga experience but also about extending these moments of sensory awareness into your everyday life. Here’s how we can focus on each of the five senses during our yoga sessions and beyond:

1. Vision

   • During Yoga: Focus on the details of your environment or your own body during poses. Notice the colors, shapes, and textures that surround you in your practice space.
   • Daily Life: Carry this heightened visual awareness into your day by observing the beauty in simple scenes around you. Whether it’s the way light filters through your window or the vibrant colors of nature during your commute.

2. Hearing

   • During Yoga: Pay attention to the sounds that accompany your practice, whether it’s the sound of my voice, the sound of your breath, music you might choose to play,  or the natural sounds entering your space.
   • Daily Life: Listen actively to the sounds around you throughout the day. This could be the melody of birdsong, the rhythmic tapping of rain, or the hum of life around you.

3. Smell

   • During Yoga: If possible, incorporate aromatherapy into your sessions with essential oils or incense that enhance relaxation and focus, like lavender or sandalwood, rose!!
   • Daily Life: Notice the different aromas that fill your day, from your morning coffee to the earthy scent of the air after rain. Let these smells engage a  deeper experience of being present and create a gate way to present-moment awareness.

4. Taste

   • During Yoga: Although less common in practice, consider a small ritual like drinking herbal tea before or after your session to engage your taste buds and connect the practice to a sense of nourishment.
   • Daily Life: Practice mindful eating by paying close attention to the flavors and textures of your food, eating slowly to savor each bite.

5. Touch

   • During Yoga: Focus on the sensation of your hands and feet as they press into the mat, the feel of your clothing on your skin, and the air against your body as you move.
   • Daily Life: Be mindful of the textures you touch throughout the day, from the softness of your pet’s fur to the smoothness of a cool glass.

Integrating Sensory Engagement

Make sensory engagement a thread of continuity throughout your yoga practice and day. Begin your morning by engaging your senses during the yoga session and aim to carry that heightened sensory awareness throughout your day. This approach helps transform routine moments into opportunities for mindfulness and connection, enhancing both your yoga practice and your daily life.

These daily practices of engaging your senses are designed to make each moment more vivid and meaningful, turning what might otherwise be ordinary into an extraordinary experience of life.

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How to Participate:

Mark your calendar for April 1st, 2025. ENGAGE your senses: 21 Days of Yoga with Ciara
Daily rendezvous on the website, YouTube, or Facebook for your 20-minute practice.
Join us this April to transform ordinary into extraordinary through the power of sensory engagement.
Get Ready for ENGAGE your senses in April 2025

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