12 Months to Emotional and Physical Healing

We can maximize these healing properties when we combine yoga practice with essential oils.  Yoga and Essential Oils can be combined together for some strong emotional and physical benefits. When we apply essential oils to skin, diffuse them, or drink them, we are taking the plants natural defense system for our own benefit. Aromatically, essential oils can directly affect the airways. It can affect our moods and emotions, and the aroma can purify the air. When used topically, essential oils can be applied directly to a specific area. When oils are ingested, they can directly support the digestive system and our immune system.

1. January- Vision: Goals

Start off the year with the essential oil and yoga guide by having a moment of vision.  Is your yoga practice aligned with your goals? 

Have an aroma experience today! Place 2-3 drops of Juniper Berry on your yoga mat. This a cleansing and detoxifying agent which will help relieve tension and stress.

Place 2-3 drops of Lemon oil in a cup to sip while you practice. Lemon has cleansing and energizing properties and it helps increase focus and concentration.

Start laying in Savasana and apply Roman Chamomile on your third eye, forehead, and back of neck. This will calm and relax you and enhance your spiritual awakening.

Place 2 drops of Peppermint into your hands. Rub them together and inhale and then apply it to your lower belly. This will help soothe digestion and support assimilation of new information. Practice some strong standing poses to stretch the legs and stimulate the digestive system. 

Place In-Tune (doTERRA) on forearms while seated before a twist. In Tune will help you focus and calm the mind so that you can live in the here and now. After a few yoga twists, practice some inversions to clear the mind and gain some insight.

Finish in Savasana with Lavender oil on the third eye, brow swipe, and back of neck. Lavender is a sedative and will bring one in touch with qualities of open communication and speaking the truth.

"The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. 
It is the one we must be choosing and making." 
-Wendell Berry 

2. February- Open the Heart

Using the Essential Oil and Yoga Guide will help us to open the heart with Yoga.  Yoga and Essential Oils can be combined together for some strong emotional and physical benefits. 

Create an open heart experience.   Place 2-3 drops of Ylang Ylang (paid link) on your yoga mat. This encourages the heart to experience its full range of emotions. 

Place 2-3 drops of Wild Orange (paid link) oil in a cup to sip while you practice. Orange is uplifting and inspires reconnection to spontaneity, fun, and playfulness. 

Start laying in Supta Baddha Konasana and apply Frankincense (paid link) on your third eye, forehead, and back of neck. This helps to ground and center the body and facilitates emotional presence.

Place 2 drops of Aroma Touch Blend (paid link) (doTERRA) into your hands. Rub them together and inhale and then apply to the back of the neck and shoulders . This will calm anxiety and move us from a stiff heart and mind to openness and flexibility. 

Practice Suyra Namaskara. It's many back bends will help you in opening the heart with yoga. 

Back bends like Ustrasana will open up the front of chest and heart space.  Place Geranium (paid link) and Wild Orange on your lower back.  This will support healthy kidney function.  These are the oils of love and trust.

Finish in Savasana with Balance Blend (paid link) oil on the feet. This will be calming and sedative and helps to clear the mind and ground the body. 

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." 
-Jimi Hendrix

3. March- Alignment and Balance

Find Alignment and Balance with the Essential Oil and Yoga Guide.  Yoga and Essential Oils can be combined together for some strong emotional and physical benefits. We can find alignment with balancing yoga poses paired with essential oils.  

Let's have an alignment and balance with yoga and oils.  Put a few drops of Grapefruit oil (paid link) in a cup to sip on.  Grapefruit will clear the kidneys, lymphatic system, and vascular system.  It will also bring a joyful, positive mood to your practice.  Place a few drops of Cypress oil (paid link) on the top of your mat.  Cypress is beneficial to the respiratory system and is the oil of motion and flow.  Get rid of those stagnant energies! 

Lay in savasana and place Frankincense oil (paid link) to your forehead, back, and neck.  This calms the nervous system and assists those feeling vulnerable to feel protected. Begin ujjayi breath. 

Apply Marjoram (paid link) to your neck, shoulders and ankles.  This helps relieve discomfort of joint stiffness and muscle tension.  Marjoram is the oil of connection and trust to the self and others. 

Enjoy strong standing poses and vigorous vinyasa.  Dancing Warrior can be completed as a flow or slower to isolate each pose and its benefits. It can help you to feel alignment and balance with yoga practice. 

Sit in Baddha Konasana and apply Deep Blue Blend (paid link) to your lower back, spine, and side body.  This will soothe the back, neck, and shoulders.  It will make you feel like surrendering to the body. 

Move into a twist followed by Navasana and place Balance blend (paid link) on the third eye.  You will feel the strength of your core and twist out any back pain.  The oil will aid in harmonizing body systems and promote grounding.  It is calming and strengthens the connection to the lower body. 

"You are not here accidentally- you are here meaningfully.  There is a purpose behind you.  The world intends to do something through you." 
-Osho

4. April- Rejuvenate Your Energy

Capture Spring Energy with Yoga and Essential Oils

Capture Spring with Yoga.  Spring is a time of rejuvenation and energy and we can find this energy through our essential oil and yoga guide. 

Let's have a rejuvenation of energy experience with yoga and oils experience today!  Place a few drops of Peppermint oil (paid link) on the top of your mat to help open the airways for breath.  Take a sip of water with a few drops of Lime oil (paid link) to support digestion and immunity.  It will bring balance between the heart and mind.  Place Cedar Wood (paid link) on your third eye to promote circulation, remove toxins, and encourage grounding and focus.

Move into Balasana and place Rosemary oil (paid link) on the kidneys.  Rosemary stimulates memory recall and aids in time of transition. 

Then continue with poses that stimulate digestion like seated twists, and standing twists.  Forward folds will stimulate digestion by folding through the center.  Stimulating poses like standing splits will energize the mind while inverted, and deep stretching poses will encourage release of toxins in the body. 

Place Geranium oil (paid link) on the arches of the feet.  This will energize and is known as an emotionally healing oil.  Enjoy supine poses like supta utthita padangustasana and supine thread the needle.  These poses will continue to stretch the hamstrings while supporting the back.

End in savasana with Wild Orange oil (paid link) across the brow and the back of the neck.  This will support digestion and uplift the mind and body.

"Just as the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."

5. May- Replenish, Renew, Receive

How to Replenish with Yoga

How to replenish with yoga? Let's take some time to renew and receive the gifts of our bodies. Yoga will help you recognize the gifts that you do have within you own body. This month, we can find how to replenish the essential oil and yoga guide. 

Start by placing a few drops of Grapefruit (paid link) in a cup to sip on while you practice yoga. Grapefruit assists in detoxifying kidneys and lymphatic systems. It helps counteract mental exhaustion. You can also diffuse Basil (paid link) oil to effect the air around you as you practice. Basil helps one maintain an open mind and increase clarity of thought.

In easy seat, sukhasana, place a drop of Rosemary (paid link) oil on your hands, inhale, and apply to your chest. This will help assist in respiratory health. Rosemary will help stimulate the immune system and encourage positivity. Next, place a drop of Myrrh (paid link) in your hands and apply it to the liver. This helps cleanse the liver and fosters inner stillness as well as encouraging spiritual growth. 

Warm up the center with some yoga poses for abdominals like yoga bicycle, table top, or three legged down dog holds.

Replenish with yoga by moving through lunges, standing splits, pigeon pose. and firelog. These poses will open the hips and stretch the hip flexors. This will help to ease back pain and ease in digestion. 

Come into Child's pose. Place Zendocrine oil (paid link) to the foot arch and across the kidneys. Zendocrine oil contains healthy organ support and encourages letting go of the non-essentials or anything else that sabotages.

Next, try a sphinx pose for back strength and balance that with a long plank hold for abdominal strength. Move through urdhva muhka and adho muhka, again for balance between the back and the abdominals. Finish this warming combination with some spinal twists for relaxation and continued digestive stimulation. 

Conclude your yoga and oils practice with savasana. Place Frankincense (paid link) on your third eye, brow swipe, and back of the neck. This may help decrease inflammation in the body and helps to counteract emotional blockages. Rest, Renew, and Receive to Replenish with Yoga.

"In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision."
Dalai Lama

6. June- How Breath and Life Connect

Breathe: Open to Life

Breath is our life force, without the function of our lungs and diaphragm, we would not function. When we come to a yoga mat to practice, we learn how to use our circulatory system to its fullest advantage. The movement, asanas, of yoga are not yoga at all if it is not connected with breath. Yoga will help you to learn how breath and life connect.  Using the essential oil and yoga guide is a powerful tool!

Let's begin a yoga experience together where we can feel our breath expand and realize the rich life we have to live.  Start by cleansing the air around you.  Take Elevation DoTerra oil blend (paid link) and place a few drops on the top of your yoga mat (paid link) or blanket.  Elevation will stimulate your body's chemistry when feeling lethargy or sadness.  It promotes feelings of self worth and you can breathe it in every time you chaturanga! 

Next, place a few drops of Grapefruit oil (paid link) in a cup or water bottle. Grapefruit assists in detoxifying the body and cleanses the kidneys. It teaches true respect and appreciation for the body and its functions. Place Lemon oil (paid link) on your forehead and back of the neck. This may help increase oxygen around the pineal and pituitary gland. It is the oil of focus and the crisp scent improves ability to focus. 

With the set up done, you can begin your yoga practice by lying on your back in savasana. When we lay on our backs, we can start to feel the way the whole torso moves when we breathe. We feel not only the chest lifting, but the lungs in the back body and the movement deeper toward the stomach in the diaphragm. This is how we can begin to learn how breath and life connect. 

Place Bergamot oil (paid link) on your heart. This helps to calm, uplift and energize. It encourages balance, strength, and confidence. Start asana movement that leads you to focus on strong breath like vinyasa, Warrior poses, and chest opening poses. These poses and sequences will link the breath and movement and help you stretch the sides of your body. Gravity weighs down on us and poor posture over time leads to chest compression. Deep breathing and stretching through the side body can help to create space between the ribs and increase lung capacity. 

Vashistasana is a powerful pose that heat the body inside and encourage deep, powerful breathing. Breathe: Open up to Life! This is how breath and life connect.

Rub Juniper Berry oil (paid link) over the low back and kidneys.  This will support detoxification of the kidneys and may assist with healthy circulation.  The circulatory system is how breath and life connect!  Continue your practice with deep forward folds like Padangustasana and Padahastasana.  These poses will lengthen the hips, hamstrings, and back.  When we can move any direction we want, we will love life even more.  We learn to value our bodies and what they can do.

Continue with hip opening poses like baddha konasana. Try to ease any tension out of your body as you feel how breath and lift connect.

Finish your practice with Lavender Oil (paid link) applied as a scalp massage. This is calming to the psyche and tissue and assists with relaxation. Lavender can allow you to share your true self with others. Settle back into savasana. You find yourself back to where you started, having come full circle. But this time, your mind and body will be in a different place. Through yoga and essential oils, you know how breath and life connect. 

"How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives."
Anne Dillard

7. July- Celebrate Freedom

6 Oils to Free Tight Hips

Celebrate your power with yoga and find a new sense of freedom.  We can find this power through the essential oil and yoga guide.

Let's have a powerful yoga experience with essential oils.  Place a few drops of Eucaluptus oil (paid link) at the top of your yoga mat.  This is the oil of wellness and will support healthy respiratory function. Place a drop of Peppermint oil (paid link) in a cup to sip on during the yoga practice.  Peppermint is cooling and support healthy, normal digestion.  It fosters joy and offers a reprieve from disappointment. Place Frankincense oil in your hands, breathe it in and rub it on your chest.  This will help with cell regeneration and is a powerful cleanser of spiritual darkness.

Place Frankincense oil (paid link) on your hands and chest.  This helps with cell regeneration and is a powerful cleanser of spiritual darkness. Move through Cat and Cow and into Child's Pose.  Place Pasttense Blend (paid link) at your hairline to assist with relief in migranes and headaches.  This will also help your regain equilibrium during periods of fatigue.  Move into back bends like Salabhasana or Dhanurasana (pictured here.)

Celebrate your power with yoga as you open the hips through poses like Pigeon, Mermaid, Half Moon, Virabhadrasana II, and Trikonasana.  Hips hold  the creative energy in our body.   They are also the house of deep emotions.  Long sustained hip opening poses will help to us find Freedom from pent up emotional distress. 

Place Wild Orange oil (paid link) on your belly.  This may help with muscle soreness and encourages self confidence and positivity.  Continue with hip opening poses to open and release stress and tension.  Gomukhasa will open the outer hips and happy baby will relax the back and open the sacrum to prepare the body for a calm savasana.  Use Roman Chamomile oil (paid link) on your brown swipe in savasana to help with muscle tension and encourage inner peace. 

"And the day came when the risk to remain a tight bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." 
-Anais Nin 

8. August- Optimal Health

Create a Healing Experience

Use the essential oil and yoga guide to find balance and create optimal health. Yoga has healing properties for the mind and body. Yoga improves strength, balance, and flexibility. Yoga helps ease pains in the body like back pain. It benefits our heart health. It relaxes you to help you sleep better. Yoga is beneficial for the mental health and emotions. Yoga teaches us to breathe deeply and take control of our breath. Yoga slows the breath down to release stress on the nervous system. 

Start by placing On Guard Doterra Blend (paid link) on your mat or in a diffuser.  This will support a healthy immune response and strengthen the inner self.  You are using the oil to directly affect the airways and elicit response.  Keep a cup of water nearby to sip on and place Wild Orange (paid link) and Peppermint (paid link) in the cup.  Wild Orange has uplifting properties that relieves feelings of anxiety and stress.  Peppermint supports nervous system balance. 

Sit in Sukhasana and place Balance Blend (paid link) on the arches of the feet. This harmonizes various physiological systems of the body. It promotes tranquility and a sense of balance. Next move into baddha konasana. Watch this quick tutorial on the pose: 

Move through cobra pose and child's pose and then prepare for Vinyasa to warm the entire body. Place Melaleuca oil (paid link) (Tea Tree Oil) on the throat and chest. This will support a healthy immune response. It is the oil or energetic balance and clears negative energetic balance. When you use essential oils in yoga class, you will understand that the oils create both a physical and emotional stimulus. This is what creates balance and optimal health. Watch this tutorial for Vinyasa: 

Now that the body is warm, move through yoga poses to stimulate health in the body. Parsvakonasana (Extended Side Bend) will strengthen the hips and hamstrings while stretching the side body, chest, and shoulders. Just add a twist to this pose to stimulate the digestive system and relieve back pain. 

Counter balance Parsvakonasana with reverse Warrior to stretch the other side of the body and take pressure off the hip. 

Prasarita Paddotanasana will further open the hips and take pressure off the sacrum as the spine lengthens. 

With the body warm and stretched, we can further use essential oils in yoga class to elicit an emotional response combined with the physical response.  Move your body into Balasana, child's pose.  Place Deep Blue Blend (paid link) and Aromatouch Blend (paid link) to your lower back and neck.  This will help relieve muscle tension and support decreased inflammation (physical response).  They will help calm the mind and allow you to live in the here and now (emotional response).  

Counter balance poses bring balance and cultivate health in the body by stimulating and stretching muscle groups. Paschimottonasana (forward bend) and Setu Bandha Sarvangasana (bridge pose) are counter poses for health. Paschimottonasana stretches the back body as we engage the abdominals through uddiyana bandha to lengthen the hamstrings, stretch the hips, and lengthen the back. 

Bridge Pose strengthens the back body, glutes, low back, and hamstrings, while lengthening the front of the body through the quadriceps, psoas, abdominals, and chest. 

Finish your balancing, healthy yoga and essential oils practice with Lavender oil on the brow swipe, and back of neck. This will assist with calming and sedation. It encourages self care and nurturing the self. Nurture yourself with some time in savasana. Use essential oils in yoga class for balance in cultivating optimal health.

"All healing is first a healing of the heart."
Carl Townsend

9. September- Foundational Chakra Balancing

Take an essential oils journey for Foundational Chakra Balancing with yoga. The essential oil and yoga guide has healing properties for the mind and body. Yoga improves strength, balance, and flexibility. Yoga helps ease pains in the body like back pain. It benefits our heart health. It relaxes you to help you sleep better. Yoga is beneficial for the mental health and emotions. Yoga teaches us to breathe deeply and take control of our breath. Yoga slows the breath down to release stress on the nervous system.

Understanding the Chakras is another way to find balance and healing.  The chakras are energy points in our body that are connected to bodily functions and emotion.  We can have too much or too little energy into each chakra which will form an imbalance.  Tools like yoga and essential oils can help us find balance.  The first three Chakras, Muladhara or Root, Svadhishtana or Sacral, and Manipura or Solar Plexus chakras make up our foundations.  They are connected to our roots, emotions, and power and control.  Foundational Chakra Balancing will help us to move into the upper chakras and further our development.

Let's have a Foundational Chakra Balancing Yoga and Essential Oil experience! Start by placing a drop of Cassia oil (paid link) in a cup of water or water bottle. Cassia is a hot oil so make sure it is properly diluted- you do not need a lot of oil. Cassia supports a healthy response to pathogenic exposure. It inspires self assurance in discovering your innate talents, therefore helping to balance the sacral chakra. Place a few drops of Clove Bud Oil (paid link) on your mat or in a diffuser close by. Clove cleanses, inspires natural playfulness, and clears the head for rational thought, again for sacral chakra balancing.

Place Balance Blend doTerra Oil (paid link) on your feet and rub it in well. This supports physical balancing and calming. It is a powerful emotional stabilizer and helps ground the energy. This will balance the root chakra in our foundational chakra balancing practice. Practice a few rounds of Surya Namaskara A and feel the ground beneath your feet and hands. This will warm the body and prepare you for the experience of going deeper. 

Place Peppermint oil (paid link) on you lower belly.  This will help open airways and supports healthy digestion for the solar plexus chakra balancing. Open the hips (sacral chakra balancing) with poses like low lunge (anjanyasana) and lizard pose.

Continue deep hip openers to find foundational chakra balancing with poses like Prasarita Padottanasana, Virabhadrasana (Warrior II), and Trikonasana (Triangle). 

Balance the Solar Plexus chakra by firing up the abdominals.  Navasana (boat pose) and Bakasana (crow) will help you feel the fire inside.

Place Cypress oil (paid link) on your heart. This supports lymphatic and circulatory systems and is the oil of motion and flow to release stagnant energy. This will begin to balance the Heart Chakra which is the bridge between the foundational chakras and the upper chakras. Do a seated spinal twist like Marichyasana C to balance the Solar Plexus Chakra followed by a few more hip openers Upavista Konasana (wide V sit) and Padmasana (lotus pose). 

Lastly, place Vetiver Oil (paid link) to the arches of the feet.  This is calming and nurturing.  It is incredibly supportive in self- awareness work and grounding one in the present moment.  In the end, we come back to our beginning, the root chakra.  End your foundational chakra balancing yoga and essential oil practice with savasana.

"The deeper the roots, the higher the tree can grow."
Proverbs

10. October- Surrender and Release

Surrender and Release with the essential oil guide and yoga. Yoga has healing properties for the mind and body. Yoga improves strength, balance, and flexibility. Yoga helps ease pains in the body like back pain. It benefits our heart health. It relaxes you to help you sleep better. Yoga is beneficial for the mental health and emotions. Yoga teaches us to breathe deeply and take control of our breath. Yoga slows the breath down to release stress on the nervous system. 

Understanding our emotions is another way to find balance and healing. Pent up emotions can effect our physical and mental health and stop us from realizing or living our true potential. Tools like yoga and essential oils can help us find balance. They are connected to our roots, emotions, and power and control. Surrender and release with yoga to move further through our development. 

Let's create a powerful emotional release with yoga and essential oils. Release your physical aches and mental anxieties, surrender to your emotions, and receive the powerful future awaiting you. 

Place a few drops of Frankincense (paid link) on the top of your mat. This oil supports the body in tissue repair for renewal. It brings stability and protection when the heart is feeling vulnerable (surrender).

Put a few drops of Wild Orange (paid link) into a cup or water bottle. You can sip throughout the practice. This supports healthy digestion (release) and has an uplifting aroma. It fosters optimism for those who have little tolerance for mishaps or mistakes (release).

Rub a few drops of Citrus Bliss Blend (paid link) on the back of your neck. This is uplifting and inspires creativity and power by letting go of old limitations and insecurities. This is both surrender and receive! 

Start to move the body through warming yoga poses like child's pose, cat and cow, and sun salutations. Try a balance in Vrkasana (tree pose) to surrender to the ground beneath your feet.

Next, add a few drops of Elevation Blend (paid link) to the back of your neck. This is energizing and stimulating. It assists in letting go of lower energy vibrations, old habits, and addictions (release). It supports self worth. Surrender and release with yoga may make you feel vulnerable. You need this powerful support to your self worth.

Each of these poses will open the hips to release emotional tension and stretch the back and side body to release stress tension in the back. 

• Prasarita Padottanasana

• Virabhadrasana I

• Trikonasana

• Ardha Chandrasana

• Reverse Warrior

• Anjanyasana

• Paschimottonasana 

Now it is time to embrace the surrender, release into supported resting poses, and receive the grace which the universe has for you.

Place Serenity Blend (paid link) on your neck, shoulders and forearms. All of these are areas of high tension. This oil is relaxing and calming. It calms feelings of hostility, fear, anger, jealousy, rage and resentment.

Try supported bridge pose. It will help you to rest on the bolster (paid link). You can relax tense areas of the body while you embrace support. Lastly, enjoy a savasana. Place Balance Blend (paid link) on the arches of the feet. This will support healthy muscle tone and is especially suited for those who seek to escape from life through disconnection or disassociation. It is grounding. After this practice, you will be able to surrender and release with the help of the essential oil and yoga guide.

"We must embrace pain and it use it as fuel for our journey."
Kenji Miyazawa

11. November- Gratitude Through Obstacles

Yoga can show you gifts- How to find gratitude through yoga

Yoga will help you recognize the gifts that you do have within you own body.  We can find this gratitude through the obstacles using our essential oil and yoga guide.  Yoga and Essential Oils can be combined together for some strong emotional and physical benefits. 

Start by placing a few drops of Rosemary oil (paid link) on your yoga mat(paid link).  This will support healthy immune responses and support better memory recall.  It will also help with mental fatigue and lift the spirits.  Drop a bit of Lemon Oil (paid link) in your cup to sip on during yoga practice.  Lemon purifies and energizes the body and improves the ability to focus.

Place Wild Orange oil (paid link) on your heart.  This will support healthy digestion and is uplifting and stimulating.  Take a heart opening and chest opening pose to establish your breath.  Move into a spinal twist for back release and cat and cow cycles.  Then enjoy a few rounds of Suyra Namaskara A. 

Continue on with your gratitude through the obstacles yoga practice to feel how yoga can show us the gifts we have in our bodies.  Hip openers will help you move through challenges with creativity.  Place Breathe Blend (paid link) on your chest and move through back bending asana like Cobra or Salabhasana. 

Follow this up with hip openers like deep lunges, pigeon pose, or mermaid. Sink deeply into the pose and when you feel like giving up, find the gifts in the obstacles.  Recognize that your body can open up and release. 

Place Ginger Oil (paid link) on the arches of the feet.  Ginger is a stimulant and is good for digestion and persuades you to be fully present and participate in life.  Placing oil on the feet is advised if you have sensitive skin.  Move into some back bending poses like Urdhva Dhanurasana or Halasana. 

Finish your yoga practice with your essential oil and yoga guide with Sandalwood oil (paid link) on your forehead.  Sandalwood will calm and balance the emotions.  Enjoy a savasana to seal your practice.

"If you have only one breath left, use it to say thank you." 
Pam Brown 

12. December- Compassion

Cultivate Kindness

Understanding our emotions is another thing we can learn from our essential oil and yoga guide. Pent up emotions can effect our physical and mental health and stop us from realizing or living our true potential. Tools like yoga and essential oils can help us promote kindness to our bodies. Yoga to cultivate kindness and compassion can ease strong emotions and promote healing. 

We can pair yoga and essential oils together with hip opening poses to create a kind and compassionate experience for our bodies. According to the Second Chakra, we hold emotional energy in the hips. This energy can get blocked and create emotional imbalance. Our essential oil and yoga guide can open this energy and help us to learn compassion and kindness for the body. 

Begin a yoga to cultivate kindness and compassion practice. Start your yoga practice by placing a few drops of Holiday Joy Blend (paid link) on the top of your yoga mat. This oil will help reduce airborne pathogens and will help comfort and soothe emotional well being.  Put drop of Peppermint (paid link) into a water glass to sip on throughout your practice.  Peppermint is detoxifying and uplifting.

Rub Frankincense (paid link) to the arches of your feet.  This oil is centering and focusing and helps create new perspectives based on light and truth. Move through some warming hip opening poses like child pose, low lunge, and pyramid.

Rub Siberian Fir (paid link) on your chest and back of the neck. This may be beneficial for reducing aches from cold and flu. This oil being earthy, creates a feeling of grounding, anchoring, and empowerment. Feel grounded with hip opening and balancing poses like Vrkasana (tree pose). 

Move into deep hip opening poses like pigeon pose, fire log, and half lord of the fishes. These poses will stabilize the hips and get deep into all facets of the hips to open and release. 

Place Tea Tree Oil (paid link) on your spine. This is the oil of releasing and forgiving and one of the most powerful cleansers of the emotional body. Take some time to process deep emotions with hip stabilizing and opening poses like Padmasana and Baddha Padmasana.

Finish your yoga practice in Savasana with Wild Orange Oil (paid link) applied to the third eye, brow swipe and back of the neck. Wild orange support healthy digestion and increases a positive mood. Savasana can help you process the emotions this hip opening yoga practice has brought up. Being kind to the body can cultivate kindness and compassion for yourself and others. Use this Meditation to Enhance your Compassion.

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