This is what I’m doing a lot of in my practice these days 🙂  

 

I notice that if I’m short on time, I try to cram in a lot of postures – I’ve been talking about this a lot but it’s taking me awhile to really change this habit.   When I’m full of energy (ie kind of manic) I need to move to start with, but then my whole being drops into yoga and eventually I get reallllllly slow and sigh a lot.   In the end, I end up hugging my bolster like a yogi’s teddy bear, and drape myself over it in child’s pose.  It feels so good! 

 

If you don’t have a yoga bolster, you can definitely experiment with couch cushions and sleeping pillows.  

But you might also splurge and get a bolster! 

 

They’re available at: www.huggermugger.com – I like round bolsters best, like the one I’m on, but they also have rectangular, which are a bit more firm.

 

The art of restorative yoga sometimes takes awhile to figure out, even if you’ve been practicing for 14 years, evidently!  In busy times, like the holiday season, I find that’s when I need to relax the most.  Let me know if you end up splurging on a bolster!

 

Enjoy your practice!