Yoga & Summer Tips

The summer season is often filled with too many activities that can make one feel tired, sleepy, and rushed to get everything done before the vacation ends. Other times the summer season can make you feel depressed, stressed out, and depleted. Yet, there are times when the summer heat prevents you from exercising and can make you feel bored. However, practicing mindfulness and yoga together can help you to continue your exercise routine throughout your vacation. It improves your health and reduces your stress.

As well as helping you feel flexible and feel energetic to do your summer activities. Furthermore, yoga and mindfulness assist in helping you concentrate and practice self-awareness. The summer season gives you time to do self-reflection and to practice self-awareness. It helps you identify the items that you want to improve, change, or want to understand as you meditate. Therefore, dedicate some time to practice self-discovery and practice self-acceptance with a positive mindset.

Focus on how your body feels and observe your body’s capabilities. Hold the yoga poses for thirty seconds or one minute. Yet you can hold a yoga pose for longer time if you feel comfortable. After ten breaths, change your yoga pose. Think about being in a cold climate as you stretch your muscles. 

Meditating with the intention to feel inner peace and using mantras to make you think you are cold. Use nature sounds of snow falling, freezing wind, rain, and other sounds to feel cold. Think about your feet, hands, and nose feeling cold as you continue doing yoga poses. Focus on your breathing and roll your tongue with your mouth open. Another technique is rolling your tongue inside your mouth as you breathe. 

Additionally wear clothes made of fabrics that keep you feeling cool. Wear shorts and tanks or cropped shirts if you are doing yoga at home or in a yoga class. If you are uncomfortable in showing your belly button, stretch marks, or scars with crop tops; You can wear an undershirt with the crop top. Make sure your yoga outfit is appropriate for your yoga class, especially if they have a dress code or class guidelines. However, you can wear anything that makes you feel comfortable and feel cool during your summer yoga sessions. 

Furthermore, doing yoga poses that make you cool off is also recommended during the summer months. Yoga can be done in the summer by incorporating yoga poses that make you cool off from the heat. For example, you can do Legs up the Wall, Tree Pose, Reclined Butterfly Pose, Thread the Needle Pose, Moon Salutations, Spinal Twists, Supported Bridge Pose, Cobra Pose, and the Corpse Pose. These poses assist you in moving slowly and to do each pose in sequence. Other poses you might want to try are the Baby Pose, the Pigeon Pose, the Reclined Goddess Pose, Low Lunge, Cat Pose, and the Child’s Pose. 

Adding a variation of lying down poses and standing up poses can help you stretch your body during the summer season. If you feel dizzy, sleepy, or exhausted stop doing your yoga poses. Have a room temperature drink after your yoga session. Drink slowly and think it is a cold drink to make you feel cooler. Here are resources about doing yoga during the summer. 

Essential Guide to Summer Yoga-8 Tips to Stay Cool and Calm During a Heat Wave:

Essential Guide to Summer Yoga-8 Tips to Stay Cool and Calm During a Heat Wave:

6 Ways to Keep Your Cool While Practicing Yoga During a Heat Wave:

6 Ways to Keep Your Cool While Practicing Yoga During a Heat Wave

A Cooling Yoga Flow for Summer-Kripalu:

A Cooling Yoga Flow for Summer-Kripalu

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