Yoga with weights

I'm excited to be adding a couple yoga with weights to my class repertoire!
Back when I was just a simple yoga student, then teacher, I thought all those additions to yoga were not doing yoga. But, now, it is nice to add that variety in your yoga practice- as long as you still do the traditional yoga. 
I think, now, it is nice to do a bit of it all:

• Beginners - take take you back and bring you to simple things- keep you focused on balance, alignment, flexibity, tools: drisht (focus point), ujjaya (breathing in and out of nose) and core (engaging in your stomach muscles). 
• Power - to build your inner core, body and muscle ability, as well as increasing your natural muscle tone.
• Flow - to keep your body & muscles moving fluently
• Yoga with weights - to build that bit of extra muscular tone for your body & it makes you think more of how your body is moving and the different muscles to use in each pose- that you wouldn't normally think about in your regular yoga practice.

The 4 poses I am doing with weights are: camel variation, dancer pose, pigeon pose variations and wild thing pose. All using just 5 pound weights. It may not seem like much. But, if you are using it mostly throughout your hour yoga practice, you will definitely feel the difference in the end!
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If you haven't done yoga with weights, maybe try a couple poses at home, or come to a class, or if you would like personal training session, feel free to contact me!

And feel free to share your questions or comments! :-)

Namaste!
     =The light in me honors the light in you!