I'm a bilingual yoga teacher who helps people who sit a lot gain mobility, move without pain and reduce their stress.
How to stay motivated when it's 35°C 🥵
|
It’s not always easy to motivate yourself to move on a regular day, but when it’s 35°C… Yet it’s still just as important to take care of yourself and your body. So how do we do it? Well, we adapt! Yoga is for the morning!Today, I did yoga with one of my clients at 8:00, when it was still “only” 23°C, and it was divine. We did just enough movement to energize and relax before what promised to be an intense day. It reminded me how important it is to adapt our practice to the season. If you have no choice and must practice during the day, don’t hesitate to close the shutters and use a fan. I also recommend opting for gentler yoga styles, like yin yoga or slow flows. I love all the floor poses, self-massage, and breathing exercises that help regulate body temperature. For example, the Sitkari technique, where you breathe in air through clenched teeth. After practice, a lukewarm shower (not cold) can also help you regulate temperature without shocking your system. And of course, we drink throughout the day, not just during practice. A little, often As always: consistency trumps intensity. Better to have 10 minutes of gentle daily practice than one exhausting session per week. This can be an opportunity to explore other, less physical aspects of yoga: 10 minutes of meditation in early afternoon, a few lines of journaling upon waking, a moment of reflection and gratitude practice before bed… Om, peace 🧡 Clem |
Clémence Dieryck
I'm a bilingual yoga teacher who helps people who sit a lot gain mobility, move without pain and reduce their stress.
Do you know the famous psychological bias called "the sunk cost fallacy"? It's when you've already invested so much time or energy in a project that you can't bring yourself to abandon it, even when you know it's going nowhere. Once we know it exists, we start seeing it everywhere: our friend who's staying in a relationship that emotionally ended years ago, the degree we're no longer interested in but we're "too far in" to quit... We keep pouring energy into something because we can't bear to...
Where does it hurt when your back aches? In the last few months, I've had a few new clients who all pointed to the same spot: on their lower back, just above the hips. They all told me they had a back problem, which is the logical thing to think. But most of the time, the issue doesn't come from the back... but a bit lower. I know, you know, we all know that we sit too much. And when we do, our hips become tight and weak. They gradually lose their ability to both move and stabilise our lower...
6.5 hours a day. It's the average amount of screen time for a woman my age. I've seen it in myself and in my clients: when we start wanting to take better care of ourselves, there always comes a moment when we realise we're going to have to reduce our screen time. And it's hard. It's hard because it's become automatic, and everything is designed to bring us back often, and especially to keep us there as long as possible. But this screen time also translates into neck tension, fatigue, rising...