Amy Vetter
Spring is my Favorite Time of Year!

Spring is my favorite time of year! I suspect this is because the energy of the earth is on full display. I’ve always been attracted to natural displays of energy. I even enjoy the spring rains because they invigorate the rivers and that means I’ll have the opportunity to feel that energy in my kayak! The spring season is alive with energy and possibility and it’s a living reminder that energy is a key aspect of life as well as the agent of change.

Spring is my Favorite Time of Year!
Amy Vetter
The Vagus Nerve

The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in the autonomic nervous system. It runs behind the ear, down the throat, through the heart and lungs, and into the digestive system. It is key for activating the rest and digest system (parasympathetic nervous system) and plays a central role in emotional and physical health.

The Vagus Nerve
Amy Vetter
Spring - A Reawakening

Spring gives us a chance for a fresh new start, a chance to renew, reawaken and refresh. We can get outside and enjoy nature, go for a walk or run, and begin preparing our gardens!

Spring - A Reawakening
B³ Yoga
"With each sunrise, we start anew." -Anonymous

Happy New Year, Yogis! With the difficulties and changes to our normal routines and all the challenges faced here at Drishtiq Yoga studio, many of us are grateful that 2020 has ended and optimistically looking forward to ushering in the hopes of a new year.

"With each sunrise, we start anew." -Anonymous
B³ Yoga
Why is it so hard to get our minds to do what ...

I mark the beginning of my yoga journey (over ten years ago), with a significant event that occurred while I was cutting my front lawn. I was listening to a podcast by a psychologist who was listing the traits of an anxious brain. Wow, it was as if she knew me personally. My aha moment was the insight that I was perceiving my life with an unconscious bias of caution and fear.

Why is it so hard to get our minds to do what we want them to do?

vacation

A Break to Come Back and Find Myself

My little over 5 months of a cross country season has finally come to an end. First, I want to thank everyone in the studio who always checked in to see how my season was going and congratulated me on accomplishments during the season. We have the best yogis and community!

So what does this mean?

It means I have a lot more time to do the things that I sacrificed during my cross country season. I really did enjoy cross country but it came with a lot of sacrifices. I can finally stay up late again and skateboard and practice guitar and not stress so much about not having enough time to finish homework. It has been nice to reconnect with some of my passions again. I could talk about the importance of staying connected to your true self and indulging in your passions but I will leave that to my mom. She is way more knowledgeable on that topic with her B3 method and is a lot more well spoken in the topic. In fact she has a whole program to help you reconnect with your passions in her B3 Method Institute.

All I can say is I feel more like myself now that I can do some of the other things I haven’t done in awhile.

Start Yoga

One of those things I have not done in awhile is yoga.

I decided I needed some yoga in my life again. I have become afraid the longer I go without yoga the less mobile I will be. That did not go well with my overall fitness goals. So going into the Saturday Hot Vinyasa at 10am I did not have very high expectations. I knew it wasn’t going to be pretty but I was just happy I was finally taking a yoga class after such a long time.

To my surprise I hadn't lost as much flexibility as I thought I would. Don’t get me wrong, it was still tough and I definitely can’t do those splits or lotus poses, but I was able to still touch my toes and really extend my downward dog. I just felt accomplished in a sense I was working on my flexibility again. During the class I also felt nostalgic. It had been such a long time since I have done yoga that it was bringing me back to the past. I remembered how easy it was to just fly up into a crow or do wheel pose or move fluidly to the next pose. This is what I wanted to work back towards. Now that I had the opportunity to go to yoga again, I want to be able to work on this.

My body felt renewed from the stretching.I felt the post yoga class buzz through my body that I haven’t felt in awhile (I also felt very drenched from my sweat which wasn’t one of the more pleasant feelings). Most Importantly, I came out of that class with a goal come to yoga more often and fight the tightness of aging with yoga.

So don’t be surprised if you start seeing me in your yoga class here at Drishtiq.



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