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ENFORMA

YOGA

FOR

RENEWAL ASANAS ENFORMA

Asanas and tips to SAMASTHITI Sama is balance.
It’s a posture to scan yourself,
take your practice to feel rooted, to know where
you are. It’s for stopping,
to the next level finding oneself, centering and
observing.

BALASANA It’s called child’s
pose: a position of total surren-
der. It’s curling up in a ball of
energy and giving in to gravity
and the weight of your body. It
lets the back rest. It’s for recon-
any people are afraid of yoga because for our emptiness and insecurities, instead necting and re-energizing.
Mthey associate it with having to be of looking for excuses, yoga gives you a
flexible, thin, and living a restrictive life- mirror that you can see your reflection SAVASANA This is cadaver
style. Carolina Daza (carolinadaza.com) in all day, every day, to feel and live. First, pose: physically it’s easy but
and the YALA Collective tear down these I work on me, I cleanse myself, I heal mentally it’s difficult. It invites
myths. “Practicing the physical part on the myself. I put myself together to become you to let go of everything. It’s
mat is the easiest part. The key is knowing whole. It’s different from the ego. It’s not a posture of vulnerability, of
what you need at all times and finding what that others don’t matter. After cleansing letting go of the physical body
you need in the moment. But knowing isn’t ourselves, we try to form a union with the and energy and letting life and
that easy,” she says. “Every breath is an people we love, with the planet. When it’s the world guide you. You enter
opportunity to be better and yoga pushes time to make decisions, we remember into the silence to let the wise
us to realize that we have millions of alter- that echo. Renewal is exactly what yoga voice inside and your intuition
natives to help ourselves.” seeks—evolution—knowing that change lead the way.
Daza and her collective organize is possible in a way that is organic, little
retreats, pop-ups, and classes in cities like by little finding those lights along the
New York and Paris, as well as in idyllic way,” she says.
locations such as the beaches of Sifnos, For advanced practitioners, she says the
Greece, or the mountains of Medellín, key to renewing one’s practice is attending
Colombia, where they offer a holistic and workshops, traveling, meeting different
functional vision of yoga as a preventative people, and nurturing that community.
tool. Long-term retreats can be combined “Yoga is a lens, a very valuable way of seeing
with gourmet food, art, snorkeling, and, life, a filter for people who want to be well,
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above all, fun. “Instead of blaming others feel well, live life.” n —ANGELA LANG

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