Preparing for the New Year: Late Winter yoga for health and well being

Late Winter, Shishira, begins a few weeks after the solstice, with the drying effects of winter and the sustained effects of cold. Balancing this deepening drying cycle are the growing long days, and Shishira is really underway when you notice the lengthening of the daylight.

Our bodies respond to this change and so does our yoga practice. Doshically speaking, kappha (water, earth) had been mildly accumulating, and unless you’re doing something to keep it moving, could aggravate leading to feelings of lethargy…