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Tobago Yoga Class

I am currently teaching twice a week at Kariwak Village Hotel, Mondays and Wedensdays @ 5-6:30pm. Bring yuh mat and come, let's practice together!

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#tb I fell on Easter Sunday and hurt my foot doing this exact thing... No bueno! . I was trying not to fall on the munchkin so I fell super awkward and spent my Easter hopping around on one foot. . The foot is feeling better now so I'm ready to get back on track! Things are progressing nicely, I'm super stoked! Finally handstands are a real thing for me! . It's been an interesting journey of getting out of my own way to stay consistent and persistent with working on this skill. Quite enlightening to see the arbitrary and useless things that can get in one's way. . #onelove 💜 . . . #handstand #handbalancing #upperbodystrength #strength #corestrength #balance #movement #handstandjourney #love #peace #nature #behappy #naturallife #islandlife #islandvibes #islandyoga

Backyard Sunday morning shenanigans with the little one 💜 #handstandjourney . #onelove 💜 . . . #handstand #handbalancing #upperbodystrength #strength #corestrength #balance #movement #movementculture #mover #practitioner #practice #tobago #yogababy #waterbaby #bushbaby #nobullshitmotherhood #islandlife #islandvibes #islandyoga

This idea of 'letting go' has become something of a fad these days. You hear everyone saying it, as though it's easy. But how do we let go? Can you tell someone else how to do it?... Not really. Everyone has to kind of figure it out for themselves. . Something that helps me navigate this idea of 'letting go' is trust. It's a theme that has come up a lot for me lately. . Trust. It's simple, but not easy. Cultivating trust in self and trust in the universe is something we must practice. Practice, not just when sh*t hits the fan, which is when it will be most illusive. It's the little things we do on a daily that helps us cultivate trust. Listening to our inner selves, allowing ourselves to let even the simplest things unfold without our meddling when we're not needed. Find moments in the mundane day to day things we do. . So when the big tough things come, as they always do, we have already had some practice trusting and letting go. It's never easy, but maybe we can see that things are going exactly as they are supposed to and we can have some ease knowing and trusting deep down that things will be ok. . Things will be ok. You are ok. . #onelove 💜 . . . #yoga #offthemat #yogaeverydamnday #life #happiness #trust #love #peace #nature #behappy #beauty #beautifulpath #universe #stillnessspeaks #ekharttolle #deepakchopra

I've been playing around with shoulder circles in various arm positions, both loaded and unloaded... It's amazing the tight and weak areas one can find! . I've also been working on general core strength, building it since giving birth over a year ago. Plank is still one where I don't always feel super connected in the abdominals. I can see it here in this video when I'm doing the shoulder circles in plank... which by the way I was SHAKING sooooo bad while doing!... For me it's a real challenge getting into the full range of motion in the shoulders! I was definitely compensating, maybe should still be doing it with knees down for a while longer to build strength and the right movement patterns. . I find that going to the uncomfortable areas in the body, the weak and tight for example, is the most challenging... but in working with the discomfort over time one learns the most about ones self. Same goes for anything in life I believe. Facing the discomfort is what will bring true inner growth. Somehow facing it in a physical practice makes it easier to see the connections, but it translates and reflects in our everyday life also! . What we find in the body reflects patterns of the mind and vice versa. The body never lies. . #onelove💜 . . . #shoulders #plank #squat #yoga #movement #fitness #painfree #practice #practitioner #mover #functionalmovement #mobility

#handstandjourney . A few weeks ago I felt really uncomfortable walking in the handstand. I felt like I could just fall to my face at any moment. But now I feel like I can do it, it's still super challenging, but I don't feel like I will collapse any second. WIN! . My practice is totally all over the place at the moment. It's spread out over the day, inbetween baby and house duty and teaching a few classes a week. I hardly ever get a full hour of practice time. I just do things throughout my day because that's the best I can do right now. I started it as a way just to get moving and not wait for when I had a full hour or hour and a half to practice, because it never came!... But then I started noticing that I was getting stronger, I felt less pain, I started gaining mobility in places I hadn't felt free in since my dancing days... So now this is my practice I guess - 5 minutes here and there, half an hour every now and then, one 15-30 minute meditation and little bits of movement/dance and doing different things with my body throughout my day. . It's weird, I know. But better than nothing! And I feel better and my body is changing... So something good must be happening, right? . What does your practice look like? . #onelove 💜 . . . #moveeverdamnday #strengthgains #handstand #handbalancing #upperbodystrength #strength #corestrength #balance #movement #movementculture #mover #practitioner #practice #tobago #mover #love #yoga #mindfulness #painfree

Things I do while baby sleeps. . Working on getting some hang time... It's a work in progress for sure. . - Lindsay #onelove 💜 . . . #locomotion #upperbodystrength #strength #corestrength #balance #movement #movementculture #mover #practitioner #practice #tobago #islandlife #islandvibes #islandyoga

Getting the spring back in my step! . Faaaaaar from the days when I used to jump everyday in dance class... having fun with it none the less! (See the smiles with the 'half' turns haha)... But OMG what a way to turn on the feet, calves, legs, abdominals... basically everything! Hard as f*** but so much fun! 😜 . Move. Every. Damn. Day. . Lindsay #onelove 💜 . . . #jump #move #footwork #strength #agility #hardasfuck #tobago #movement #movementculture #feet #dance #practice

#handstandjourney . It's coming along... It's hard for me to believe, but it's coming! . I'm learning more and more about how to structure my practice sessions. I'm learning how important training the component parts of a skill is, as well as the skill itself (but not only just the skill). I'm trying to build strength, stability and mobility, and in tern resiliency, in my body. By focussing on certain specific skills, I can then break them up into the component parts and see where needs more strength, where needs more mobility and work on those pieces individually. Then come back to the skill and train that... And then the exciting part happens where I can then link skills together and use these patterns I've practiced to explore free movement, improv, true creativity with the body, mind, and spirit. . Each part of the practice is an opportunity to learn about yourself and truly get into the body, which to me is the home of our spirit. So by getting into the body you are able to connect with your truest self and learn and grow. Its all one. I could go deeper into this but that's for another post 😜 . I share in the spirit of sharing. Gathering and spreading (hopefully) useful information. Just as I have found information I have gathered here on IG quite useful. So this is me passing it forward. . - Lindsay #onelove 💜 . . . #handstand #handbalancing #upperbodystrength #strength #corestrength #balance #feedback #yoga #practice #practitioner #mover #functionalmovement #mobility #movement

I've been fitting more strength and mobility work into my practice, and it makes a huge difference to how my body feels! . I wake up feeling free in my body, not stiff or with odd pains here or there. Pains that I've had in my neck and upper back are way less, and discomfort I had in my lower back and sacrum area is totally gone too! Amazing what a little strength work can do! I'm really excited to see where I'll be in a year or two... I'm curious where this movement journey will take me! . I'm incorporating some things I learned from @kathrynbruniyoung here (check her out!), plus I started dead lifting... It's the best thing to feel strong! . I realize now that this was the missing link to much of my previous dance and even yoga practice... Strength work is super important people! . This body is so amazing. Multifaceted. Complex. I encourage everyone to get in their bodies and explore! . #onelove 💜 . . . #strength #movement #mover #yoga #mindfulness #painfree #moveeverydamndy #practice #tobago #islandlife #islandvibes #islandyoga