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The POWER is mine to create, attract, repel,protect, and destroy!!!! OFO ASE!!!!!! #wordpower #soundpower #breathpower #tonguepower #mindpower #speak #affirm #ofoase #magic #blackgirlmagic #newmoon

[simonborgolivier]

8 DAY AFTERNOON COURSE near Byron Bay with Simon Borg-Olivier: *** TIMES & DATES: 3 hour sessions from 4-30pm to 7.30pm on Saturday 22nd October to Sunday 30th October)(Drop in classes only available for the the first four sessions Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday as the course progresses significantly after that and is no longer suitable for new people to begin) *** COURSE CONTENT: Yoga Synergy Fundamentals (Ashtanga Vinyasa-Based) Sequence that can be adapted and tailored for the individual. The first part of these class is verbally instructed and the second half is a visually instructed (no speaking) flowing meditative practice with music. This course is progressive from Day 1 to Day 9 WHAT TO EXPECT: To improve your circulation and internal health and feel energised without your heart racing or breathing more than normal. To improve your strength and flexibility without painful stretching or tensing muscles. To make your body intelligent without having to over-think. *** VENUE: Paradise One Retreat Centre 139 Newes Rd, Coorabell NSW 2479 *** ENQUIRIES & BOOKINGS: please call me on [phone] I will teach you techniques that I have learnt and developed over more than 50 years of personal practice, 30 years teaching and 20 years as an exercise-based physiotherapist. For more information about what I teach please see https://yogasynergy.com/blog/category/simon-borg-olivier/ Thanks to Mallory Grill for this photo of me in parsva kukkutasana #beyondyoga #strikeapose #yogaeverydamnday #namaste #yogainspiration #yogaoffriendship #yogahigh #myyogalife #stopdropandyoga #iloveyoga #yogasynergy #yogaanatomy #yogaphilosophy #breathpower #yogaphysiology #corestability #yogateachertraining #spinalmovements

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9 DAY MORNING COURSE near Byron Bay with Simon Borg-Olivier: *** TIMES & DATES: 4 hour sessions from 6.30am to 10.30am $80 a session (or $680 for 9 days from Saturday 22nd October to Sunday 30th October) (Drop in classes only avalable for the the first four sessions Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday as the course progresses after that and is no longer suitable for new people to begin) *** COURSE CONTENT: Static and dynamic meditation, pranayama, band, mudra and kriya. Most of this class is instructed visually. This course is progressive from Day 1 to Day 9 and is suitable for beginner to advanced people of all ages WHAT TO EXPECT: To improve your circulation and internal health and feel energised without your heart racing or breathing more than normal. To improve your strength and flexibility without painful stretching or tensing muscles. To make your body intelligent without having to over-think. *** VENUE: Paradise One Retreat Centre 139 Newes Rd, Coorabell NSW 2479 *** ENQUIRIES & BOOKINGS: please call me on [phone] I will teach you techniques that I have learnt and developed over more than 50 years of personal practice, 30 years teaching and 20 years as an exercise-based physiotherapist. For more information about what I teach please see https://yogasynergy.com/blog/category/simon-borg-olivier/ *** Thanks to Stuart Fell for this photograph of me at Clovelly Beach. #instayogi #beyondyoga #strikeapose #yogaeverydamnday #namaste #yogainspiration #yogaoffriendship #yogahigh #myyogalife #stopdropandyoga #iloveyoga #yogasynergy #yogaanatomy #yogaphilosophy #breathpower #yogaphysiology #corestability #yogateachertraining #spinalmovements

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☀️Resistance work in Natarajasana: ⚡️The dance of Shiva: Here you can see me move progressively deeper into the posture. If you look carefully you can see I am offering resistance to pulling my feet to my head. 👳As I have already written, generating resistance in a posture can really help improve your bone and muscle strength, your flexibility and your cardiovascular fitness. It is not so much about trying to get into the pose but rather to 'try to escape' from the pose. 👳To get these benefits, while remaining in your version of the posture (which could be a much simpler version that I show here) gently 🌞'try to' bend your spine forward (without actually bending forward), 🌞'try to' bring your bent knee to your chest (without actually bending forward), 🌞'try to' straighten your bent knee (you can actually see me do this for a while), 🌞'try to' pull your elbow to your chest, and 🌞'try to' straighten your elbow. In other words 'try to' activate all your lengthened muscles while keeping your shortened muscles relaxed. This is deep resistance work, and invokes spinal reflexes that shift the whole practice of your yoga from simply a physical stretch to yield much deeper progress and connections on physical, physiological (energetic), mental and emotional levels. 🌳For this pose the safest and most effective breathing is make sure you can breathe naturally into your abdomen and breathe out simply from your chest. 🌐Practicing postures in this way is incredibly powerful but involves a deep and practical understanding of traditional yoga as well as the applied anatomy and physiology of posture, movement and breathing. #asana #advancedasana #bandha #backbend #biancamachliss #breathpower #drishti #dance #dhanurasana #ekapada #funyoga #flowingyoga #india #onelegbalance #pranayama #spinalmovements #simonborgolivier #yogadance #yogaanatomy #yogasynergy #yogaphysiology #yogateachertraining

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️Here I am demonstrating going from a lotus arm balance to a handstand lotus, then drop over to a backarch then flip over to the splits. This part of a performance I did in front of thousands of School children at the Olympic stadium. This sequence is an excellent abdominal and trunk/spinal strengthening exercise that is really energising, exhilarating and lots of fun if you have an easy pain free back-bend. 🌞TIPS: 🌄(1) To lift to handstand push your sitting bones downwards to activate you rectus abdominis and breathe into your abdomen. 🌠(2) To 'flip-over' from the back-bend shift your body weight from your feet to hands and 'take-off' when the body weight is over your hands. Lift your head as you lift your feet off the ground. Keep your knees bent throughout the flips until you become very fluid. Learn to do it as slow and controlled as possible (holding in scorpion and lolasana if possible) to achieve maximum strength and control over your trunk. Stabilise your shoulders by keeping your armpits pushing towards your chest to create tha-amsa (shoulder) bandha. As you flip over grip with your fingers into the floor to stabilise the wrists (ha-mani bandha) 🌟 (3) For the splits prepare the front leg by activating the knee extensors (pull up your knee caps) and hip flexors ('stretch the mat with your feet') to lengthen and relax your hamstrings and prepare the back leg by lengthening the psoas and other hip flexors. (Practice and try come to the splits from handstand without bending the knees - in this video I am sloppy!) 👳CAUTIONS: Many people do the 'flip over' movement as a 'walkover', ie one leg at a time. This is ok to do but has a very different effect on strength-training and can cause problems in your spine especially if you always kick over with the same leg. So please practice both sides ! For more information on our live and online courses see http://yogasynergy.com/training #asana #advancedasana #padmasana #yogadance #yogaanatomy #yogaphysiology #yogaphysiology #yogateachertraining #simonborgolivier #breathpower #pranayama

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It's my Birthday! "20,000 Days Under the Sea": (With apologies to Jules Verne) Today I am 20,000 days old - yay! I made it! Actually i am a Leo and is Leo's will take any excuse to celebrate! Here I am doing my favourite pastime of underwater yoga. This is Matysa Vinyasa ('swimming like a fish') filmed in the beautiful Blue Hole in the Bahamas where I had the honour of working with world record holding Freediver master yogi William Truebridge who can swim down more than 100 metres with no fins and no weights on a single breath of air. Pranayama at a very advanced level. The biggest trick to any pranayama is to encourage blood flow to your brain by relaxing the muscles around your neck and face - it can help to make small movements of your jaw, lips tongue and eyes. It especially helps to swallow when you feel the need to breathe, because when you swallow you can't breathe and so a deep reflex 'tells you' that you don't need to breathe and so you get a few extra seconds without breathing and with practice your pranayama will improve. Daily practice of breath retention under the sea or in the land builds up carbon dioxide which helps to acidify you in a good way, promote blood flow, increase energy output from your cells (Bohr effect) and helps to reduce your appetite and your dependency on food. #underwater #diet #freediving #breathpower #pranayama #yogaanatomy #yogasynergy #yogaphysiology #yogateachertraining

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🌠Underwater Yoga and Pranayama: ⚡️Ardha Baddha Padma Pascimottansana with no air: 👳Here the trick is to be comfortable to not have any air in your lungs (bahya kumbhaka) so that you can stay on the bottom and not float. 🌟Since the greatest limitation to holding the breath is lack of blood to the brain, it is important the blood flow to the brain is not inhibited. ☔️Totally relax your shoulders, your neck, your tongue, your jaw, your lips and your eyes. It also helps to relax your legs abdomen and pelvic floor as much as you can. 🌳However, if you want to do a posture like I am showing here you still have to engage muscles throughout the body, but you need to make sure they are free not locked. ❄️For example, use your legs and arms but check the shoulders, hips, fingers and toes are free to move; use your neck but check it is free to move; use your trunk muscles but check your diaphragm is free (as if you could breathe if you wanted to but of course you are holding the breath out). 🍄It will also help improve blood flow to the brain if you make small movements of your eyeballs, tongue, jaw and lips, make saliva and swallow it, and also gently blink a few times. 🙈This is a big secret of all pranayama (so please don't tell anyone!) #pranayama #breathpower #yogadance #yogasynergy #yogaphysiology #yogateachertraining #yogaanatomy #simonborgolivier

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🌠Just found this classic music video when I performed some pseudo artistic yoga dance moves in 10cm deep water ☔️ with the legendary Iva Davies dance band Icehouse in 1990. 👍This was such a fun day, although a bit funny being dressed in a 'period piece loin-cloth' that looks to me more like a large nappy! 🌞This was their last music video ... 'Anything is Possible'. 🌚The song was not their biggest hit but it kind of grew on me and I thought they were pretty amazing when they first played under the name 'Flowers' 🌼 at Sydney University in 1980 ten years earlier when I was a young debauched partying undergraduate!🍄 👳Here I am doing bakasana (crow posture), niralamba sirsasana (three point headstand), parsva bakasana (side crow posture), mandalasana (walk around your head!) and vrscikasana (scorpion posture) #asana #drishti #backbend #breathpower #bandha #funyoga #dance #musicvideo #janubandha #mandalasana #pranayama #spinalmovements #simonborgolivier #uddiyanabandha #mulabandha #scorpion #vinyasa #yogadance #yogaanatomy #yogasynergy #yogaphysiology #yogateachertraining