Seven Oaks Yoga

Try it out playfully! It’s not as hard as it seems - just take it step-by-step!
एकपदराजकपोतासन (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana) 🕊️
One-Legged King Pigeon Pose is a powerful, deep heart-opener. Spiritually, this posture symbolizes devotion, grace, and surrendering the ego. It helps quiet the mind and unlock stored emotional tension in the hips and chest.
Teacher Tips & Benefits:
Warm Up First: Always warm up your hips, shoulders, and spine before attempting the full bind.
Listen to Your Body: Ease in gently with patience and breath, never force the depth.
Benefits: Deeply stretches the hip flexors, opens the chest, improves spine flexibility, and builds body awareness.
Honor your body’s wisdom, play with your edge, and save this for your next practice!
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Awakening the Green Tara
In the quiet depths of Badwater Basin, movement becomes prayer.
The sacred chant of Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha clears the mind, dissolves fear, and opens the heart to universal compassion. Flowing through each breath, this practice is a pilgrimage inward, a gentle return to strength, grace, and inner sanctuary.
📍Badwater Basin, Death Valley
Mantra: Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha

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“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the Self.”

Inspired by the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita

This Adiyogi inspired pose looks simple, but it’s a beautiful practice of balance and body awareness.

When we try something new on the mat, our body learns through experience. With each attempt, the brain and body communicate, adjust, and discover the movement.

Give it a try! If it doesn’t happen on the first attempt, give it a couple more tries and allow your body to find its own balance.

Sometimes we learn not by thinking, but by doing, practicing, and trusting the process. That is why it is called a yoga practice. We return to the mat again and again, because no pose is ever truly perfect. The beauty is in the learning, the exploration, and the journey.

ॐ तारे तुत्तारे तुरे स्वाहा

Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha

This ancient mantra is a prayer for liberation from fear, obstacles, and illusion. It reminds us to return to our true nature.

Death Valley in July is one of the harshest environments on Earth. Research shows that extreme heat can increase irritability, impair judgment, and make reactive aggression more likely. When the body is pushed to its limits, the mind is tested as well.

Perhaps that is why places like this reveal so much about us. When comfort disappears, what remains? Do we react with frustration, or do we respond with awareness? With fear, or with compassion?

May we remember who we truly are.

May fear become courage.

May compassion guide our actions.

📍 Death Valley National Park, California

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“Where there is joy, there is creation. Where there is no joy, there is no creation.”
— Chandogya Upanishad

The vast salt flats of Badwater Basin reflect the infinite space within, a physical reminder that the body is a mirror of the universe. In Compass Pose (Parivrtta Surya Yantrasana), the physical form stretches beyond its perceived limits, untying the subtle knots (granthis) of the body to reveal the quiet, luminous awareness underneath.

This asana is a physical invocation of the internal compass, aligning individual consciousness with the sacred geometry of the universe. In Sanskrit, Surya represents the solar, illuminating principle of self-realization, while Yantra is the sacred instrument or portal through which we channel divine energy. As the heart twists toward the sun and the body unfolds into a sacred mandala, we move beyond the physical sheath (Annamaya Kosha) to awaken Prana, expanding our perception to orient toward our true north, Atman.

🧘🏼‍♀️ Compass Pose | परिवृत्त सूर्य यन्त्रासन

📍 Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park
At 282 feet below sea level, this expansive salt flat is the lowest point in North America. The crystalline salt crusts form as ancient lakes evaporate under the desert sun, creating a surreal canvas of natural geometric patterns.


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Namaste. Another day with Shiva me.🧘🏼‍♀️ “Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.” — The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 2, Verse 48)

True stability isn’t a default state - it’s something we actively create through focus, breath, and embracing the wobble. Connecting with the grounding energy of Shiva today and reminding myself that the journey to find balance is exactly why we practice.

Some things are easier said than done, but the effort is always worth it. How is your balance feeling on the mat today? 👇

Rāja Kapotāsana (King Pigeon Pose) (राजकपोतासन)

There comes a moment in every practice when flexibility is no longer the goal. What begins as a physical posture quietly becomes a conversation with yourself. The body opens only as deeply as the heart is willing to soften.

This is why I return to my mat again and again. Not to achieve a pose, but to remember that growth isn’t measured by how far we can bend. It’s measured by our willingness to stay present when life asks us to open.

Perhaps enlightenment isn’t found at the end of the journey. Perhaps it lives in the courage to meet ourselves, exactly as we are, one breath at a time.

“The deepest pilgrimage is not across the earth, but into the heart.”