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How to Cultivate Body Awareness Through Yoga

By 02/05/2025Yoga
Kate Lombardo posing with her hands up in the air with peace signs to advocate for body awareness through yoga

Trying to develop a routine and stick to a set of wellness practices can be cumbersome. However, when you find things that truly align with your body and the way you like to move, it can be a fun way to connect with your body.

As we bring attention to body awareness, the intention is to honor our bodies for all they do for us. They keep us in motion and in rest, which is equally as important. This newsletter invites you to find the ways in which you like to get in tune with your body and nourish those actions until they become a regular part of your routine. ✨

Here are some ways to establish and nurture body awareness through the lens of the yoga practice.

Yoga for Beginners

Establishing a foundational, basic yoga practice can do wonders for both your mental and physical health. Yoga provides a great deal of awareness to the body and parts of the body that may not get proper attention on a daily basis.

Yoga can also help you understand the body on a deeper level. Starting out with the foundational poses may bring a greater sense of awareness on how you can move in and understand your body.

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Find the Way You Like to Move

Another way to build a strong relationship with your body can be stretching in the morning.

Each morning when you wake up, try to move your body around until you find ways that feel good to you. You can start with a seated meditation, or get right into it. Either way, the freedom of movement and expression in your body will start to connect your brain waves to a new found appreciation.

Morning stretch ideas:

  • Stand up and lean to either side with your arm stretched up overhead
  • Take a giant forward fold as you let your head and neck dangle over your legs
  • Sit on the floor and reach your arms up and overhead and lean to either side
  • Start in child’s pose and lean back and forth until you find a nice flow of movement
  • Start seated on the floor and send one leg at a time out long and lean over towards it
  • Try cat/cow (starting on all fours with your wrists underneath your shoulders and knees underneath your hips – inhaling dropping your belly looking up, exhaling rounding your spine pressing through your palms)

Try a Group Fitness Class

There are tons of methods of group fitness offered now with a plethora of movements and combinations of movements. Once you decide on what level of intensity you want, you can narrow down the list of places near you that offer that range of movement. Sometimes attending a group class awakens something in us that allows us to appreciate how we can move our body. Even if you have certain specifications and special needs of assistance or range of motion, the offerings seem to be getting more and more inclusive, where there tends to be options for just about everyone. If you’re looking for a specific aided class or private instruction, you can certainly search for it and hopefully there’s a class that’s just right for you — and maybe you even make some friends out of it!

Try Free Videos on YouTube

We of course started our own YouTube channel to facilitate and circulate the practice of yoga… but YouTube is home to thousands upon thousands of different types of “at-home workouts” and movement practices. A simple search should bring you to areas of moving your body that might spark some joy in how you like to get moving.

Since we highlighted beginner yoga above, here are some beginner-friendly yoga videos on our YouTube — enjoy!

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