Increase Your Energy with Ease ♥︎

Movement
Written By Leanne de Groot
 

Have you noticed how your energy levels wax and wane throughout each day? Do your days often feel akin to a roller coaster ride of peaking and plunging drive and enthusiasm?

Naturally, the way in which you are fueling your body with nutrients will play a large part in your liveliness. Even so, pay attention to your breath right now.

Notice how it feels.

Is it easy?

Hard?

Are you breathing through your nose or mouth?

Simply sprinkling a few pranayamas (breathing exercises) throughout your day will keep you vibing along in balance.

♁ Ayurveda philosophy suggests from 6 am to 10 am is the perfect time for “kapalabhati, Ujjayi, or Sun Breaths to stimulate energy and enhance circulation.

☉ From 10 am to 2 pm is when the sun is at its highest point, to balance this heat try Sheetali breathing. This will provide you with a quick calm.

❇︎ Tradition says that from 2 pm to 6 pm is our cognitive and creative time and the perfect balance is Nadi Shodhana breathing.

If you are unsure of these breath techniques, please get in touch and I will guide you through them.

A calm mind, more energy, and clarity are just an inhale (and an exhale) away ❤︎

 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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