SEASONAL SELF-CARE BLOG
YOGA FOR ANXIETY
Posted on September 3rd, 2025
We are living in challenging times, to put it mildly. The current unraveling of our world is heartbreaking and frightening. Our nervous systems are overwhelmed, agitated, and constantly on high alert. What can we do to help our bodies and minds calm down so we can function, think clearly, and stay grounded?
Thankfully the ancient wisdom of yoga and ayurveda can help us with potent practices to settle the jangled nervous system, quiet the anxious mind, and relax the stressed out body. Join Leigh for this afternoon online workshop and immerse yourself in a yoga practice infused with ayurveda self-care practices to help you calm the anxious mind, ground your body, and enjoy a state of deep restoration and rejuvenation.
In this workshop we will explore yoga postures, meditation, chanting, mudras, and sound healing as well as learn about ayurvedic herbs and lifestyle practices to help you calm your mind and stay rooted in the present moment.
Registration
This workshop will be held on zoom. Link will be given at time of registration.
$35
Payment accepted with
Venmo
LeighEvansYoga
leitzu@earthlink.net
Zelle
leitzu@earthlink.net
contact – evansleigh01@gmail.com
YOGA SUKHAVATI CANCELLATION POLICY
Refunds, (less your non-refundable deposit), are available up to two months prior to start date of the teacher training, retreat, immersion or workshop. After two months prior to start of the teacher training, module, retreat, immersion or workshop your payment can be issued as credit towards a future teacher training, retreat, immersion or workshop where space is available. For cancellations less than one month prior to start date, all fees are non-refundable and not transferable.
Spring Yang Pose
Posted on June 2nd, 2015
Spring Yang Pose: Eka pada Galvanasana (flying pigeon)
Leigh Evans
As a yogi, I am a deep explorer of ways to open the inner landscape of the body and mind. I love creating practices to target the areas where prana or chi is congested in the body. I know that these tight, stagnant places are actually a gold mine for awakening. They are energy pathways or meridians that are blocked. Like a river that is thwarted by a fallen tree branch, once the meridians are opened, the energy that is stuck will freely move and create a free flowing river of energy.
Transition from Spring into Summer by intensifying your yoga practice with Spring yang asanas to cleanse the liver and gall bladder organs and meridians. Release congestion and awaken chi/prana. According to Chinese Medicine, Spring is the season of the wood element, the desire for expansion and growth reflected in the small tender seeds growing into towering trees. Movement from all living things surges to the surface to greet the face of spring. The energy of the liver echoes the ascending, flowing, spreading nature of Spring and the wood element. The rising energy of Spring increases the liver’s ascending energy and increases the flushing of accumulated toxins. Therefore in Spring, we bump into any congestion, stagnation or deficiency in the liver and gall bladder organ and meridians.
Eka pada galvanasana is one of my favorite hip opening asanas. As a person with liver congestion, I have benefited greatly from practicing it. Eka pada galvanasana is a beautiful and challenging asana which deeply opens the gall bladder meridian, running through shoulders, side body and outer hips. It simultaneously awakens energy in the liver meridian in the inner legs.
Prepare the hips for Eka pada galvanasana with supine ankle to knee and pigeon pose.
Have fun!