Part 2: Can You Walk & Chew Gum Do Yoga?

“I teach yoga a little bit differently. I have students walk the labyrinth inside my studio and the seven other labyrinths I’ve built outdoors. I integrate Ayengar and Kundalini yoga as well as the Native American medicine wheel and Tai Chi movement.” ~ Linda Wallace, Labyrinth Walker and Yoga Teacher

Walktopia: WHY PUT A LABYRINTH INSIDE A YOGA STUDIO? WHAT'S THE CONNECTION? Linda Wallace: FOR STARTERS, HERE ARE THREE REASONS

1. Yogis consider walking a perfect form of practicing yoga. Walking in a posture and with a stride that generates balance, is yoga.

2. People take yoga to heal their bodies and to gain flexibility. Labyrinth walking does the same thing. The walk reinforces benefits yoga students seek. For example, as you make twists and turns on a labyrinth walk, you loosen the hip area. As you follow a labyrinth path, you fine-tune your ability to concentrate and focus. When you walk a traditional seven-circuit labyrinth, the seven body chakras are touched.

3. Yoga calls you to pay attention to your body, your emotions and, eventually, a body-spirit connection. Walking the labyrinth facilitates that process. On the walk you will start to see things more positively and ask more often, “what is the lesson I am supposed to learn here?”

Instant refresher: What’s a chakra?

Contact Wallace at Raven Yoga Studio, email thezenofbowling [at] juno [dot] com, 520.749.2407

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