“Nurturing Seasonal Harmony In Your Yoga Practice and Daily Life”
SPRING INTO SUMMER SEASONAL FLOW:
Plant Boldly. Tend Fiercely. Glow Gracefully. Elevate Your Life.
Your Spring into Summer Sadhana: This season, your Sadhana — your personal practice — is an invitation to plant boldly, tend fiercely, glow fully, and elevate gracefully.
Move with presence. Grow with love. Glow with gratitude. Your light is already within you.
🌿 Let’s rise with it.
Seasonal Intentions:
(May–July)
Plant energetic seeds that elevate your life.
Tend to growth with love, presence, and steady effort.
Nourish yourself with discipline, joy, and consistency.
Own what blooms—and what doesn’t—with grace and gratitude.
🌿 Foundational Yogic Principles for This Season:
Vairagya (Non-Attachment): Observe growth without clinging to outcomes.
Santosha (Contentment): Find joy in the act of tending itself.
Sthira/Sukha (Effort and Ease): Root firmly; move lightly.
✨ In this season, embody these timeless principles — not as philosophy alone, but as lived energy on the mat and in life.
🌑 Interactive Reflection: Your Personal Seasonal Check-In
Take moments to reflect:
🌱 What seed am I planting for myself this summer?
🔥 How am I tending to my energy, mindset, and growth?
🌻 Where can I invite more ease and gratitude into my journey?
📓 Action step: Journal or simply breathe with these questions. No judgment. Just gentle witnessing.
Optional journal prompt:
"I am nurturing _____ with love and steady care this season."
Our Inspiration To YOU!
🌿 "Plant with presence. Tend with strength. Grow with gratitude."
🌿 "Care for your energy like a living garden — with love, with effort, and with trust in the light unfolding within you."
At The Yoga Space, we honor both movement and stillness, effort and ease — cultivating a practice that supports not just the body, but the mind, heart, and spirit.
Summer across ALL traditions represents expansion, energy, and growth — but true balance means learning to cool, ground, and nourish ourselves through the process.
At The Yoga Space, we honor both movement and stillness, effort and ease — cultivating a practice that supports not just the body, but the mind, heart, and spirit.
As the seasons shift and the world around us stirs with new life, we invite you to step into our Spring into Summer Flow— a seasonal practice designed to plant seeds of intention, nourish your mindset, and elevate your inner and outer energy.
This season is about bold growth, intentional tending, and radiant expansion — a time to release stagnation, root deeper into your strength, and glow from the inside out.
Just as nature steadily rises toward its fullest expression, our practice mirrors this rhythm: building steadiness through grounding, fueling vitality through breath and mindful movement, and creating space for freedom, lightness, and joy to rise.
This is more than a season of change — it’s an ongoing call to nurture your Sadhana, to align body, mind, and spirit with the expanding light within you. 🌻
Spring into Summer Seasonal Guide: Aligning Your Energy with Nature’s Rhythms
As the seasons shift and the earth awakens, Spring into Summer invites us to move with purpose, root into our intentions, and rise into radiant expansion.
This time of year bridges the nourishing, grounding energy of late spring with the vibrant, expansive energy of early summer — a powerful opportunity to plant seeds of transformation and tend to your personal Sadhana with love, presence, and discipline.
Here’s how to align your practice — and your life — with the evolving energy from May through July:
🌸 May: Plant Boldly — Root Into Your Light
(Late Spring Guidance)
May carries the steady, fertile energy of Kapha — inviting nourishment, rootedness, and mindful planting. It's a month to create strong foundations, physically, mentally, and energetically.
✔️ Plant Intentions with Presence: Begin each practice or morning with a small, clear intention. Imagine it like planting a seed in rich soil.
✔️ Move with Steadiness and Purpose: Choose grounding flows — think steady standing poses like Warrior I, Tree, and Low Lunge.
✔️ Awaken Your Energy: Incorporate heart-opening and breath-centered practices to stir gentle movement without overwhelm.
✔️ Nourish from the Inside Out: Eat fresh, vibrant foods—greens, sprouts, citrus—to support renewal and vitality.
✔️ Rise with the Season: Wake a little earlier. Soak in the soft sunlight. Reflect on the possibilities beginning to unfold.
🌞 June: Tend Fiercely — Nourish Your Energy
(Early to Mid-Summer Guidance)
As summer fully arrives, Pitta energy (fire and transformation) begins to rise. June is the time to show up for the seeds you've planted — tending your growth with discipline, joy, and focused effort.
✔️ Stay Steady and Consistent: Commit to a regular practice that challenges and strengthens — Crescent Lunge, Chair Pose, and core work are powerful now.
✔️ Balance Heat with Breath: Incorporate cooling breaths (like Sitali or Chandra Bhedana) to maintain internal calm.
✔️ Move With Fluid Strength: Flow through sequences that build stamina but allow room for softness — breath-to-movement flows like Sun Salutations A & B.
✔️ Hydrate Body + Mind: Choose foods that cool and hydrate — cucumber, watermelon, mint, coconut water.
✔️ Tend to Your Inner Garden: Journal about your intentions weekly. What’s blooming? What needs more tending?
🌻 July: Glow Fully — Expand Your Radiance
(Peak Summer Guidance)
July is pure expansion — vibrant, energized, and radiant.
Now, it's time to celebrate your growth, elevate your mindset, and let your internal light shine without force or attachment.
✔️ Glow Through Joyful Movement: Incorporate expansive poses like Half Moon, Dancer’s Pose, and playful backbends that lift the heart.
✔️ Elevate Your Mindset: Start each day with a gratitude mantra. Example: "I glow from within. I trust my unfolding."
✔️ Balance Effort and Ease: Honor the balance of Sthira and Sukha — find strength without rigidity, joy without rushing.
✔️ Embrace Spaciousness: Allow for play, rest, creativity, and connection — make space for freedom and fun in your schedule.
✔️ Shine Without Grasping: Remember Vairagya (non-attachment): what blooms, blooms. What doesn’t, doesn’t. Both are sacred.
Seasonal Practices for Planting, Tending, and Glowing:
✨ Morning Energizers: Wake your energy gently with breathwork, slow stretching, or light sun salutations.
🌿 Heart-Centered Yoga: Flow with sequences that open the chest, shoulders, and spine to welcome in expansion.
💚 Self-Care Rituals: Practice Abhyanga (self-massage) or cool showers to refresh and balance rising heat.
🥗 Seasonal Nourishment: Eat fresh, hydrating, colorful foods that fuel your light without weighing you down.
🌞 Outdoor Connection: Practice or simply breathe outside. Let the sun energize your body and your intentions.
Chakra Energy: Balancing Your Inner Garden
Your body holds its own natural energy system
— the chakras.
Chakras are like energetic vortexes or spinning wheels within you, each one influencing a part of your physical, emotional, and spiritual life.When all the chakras are flowing and balanced together,it’s like tending a vibrant, flourishing garden inside yourself — every part supporting the whole.
🌱 This season, rather than focusing on just one energy center, we nourish the entire system:
When you care for the full garden of your energy — body, mind, spirit — you don't just grow, you thrive. 🌞🌻
🌑 New Moon Dates for Spring into Summer
New moons offer a quiet space for honest self-assessment — a time to acknowledge where we are, what we truly need, and what seeds are ready to be nurtured with care and intention.
🌑 May 26, 2025 — New Moon in Gemini
The winds of late spring stir the mind and spirit. A perfect time to plant intentions rooted in adaptability, curiosity, and open-hearted exploration.
🌿 Plant with presence.
🌑 June 25, 2025 — New Moon in Cancer
As summer blooms, turn inward to nourish your emotional body. Focus on intentions of self-trust, emotional resilience, and tender gratitude.
🌿 Tend with grace.
🌑 July 24, 2025 — New Moon in Leo
The heart of summer calls you to shine. Set bold intentions around self-expression, courage, and joyful creation. Let your inner light glow bright.
🌿 Glow with power.
🌞 Summer Solstice: Friday, June 20, 2025
The Summer Solstice marks the longest day of the year and the peak of light and energy.
It’s a powerful time to celebrate how far you’ve come — and to realign with your deepest light.
💛 Honor Light: Practice a gratitude flow, journal your wins, and bask in sunlight as a reminder of the energy already within you.
🌞 Action Step: Flow through a few rounds of Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar) to honor the sun’s life-giving force and your own inner fire.
The 8 Limbs of Yoga: A Path to Plant, Tend, Glow and Elevate
The 8 Limbs of Yoga, gifted by the sage Patanjali through the Yoga Sutras, are a timeless guide for living with more balance, awareness, and purpose — both on and off the mat.
Each limb offers a way to plant the seeds of right living, tend the body, mind, and heart, glow with radiant energy, and elevate into deeper connection with yourself and the world around you.
They are not rigid rules, but living practices:
🌱 To plant integrity, compassion, and mindfulness in your daily life.
🌿 To tend your strength, breath, and focus with devotion.
🌞 To glow with presence, joy, and inner freedom.
🌻 To elevate into the fullest, most vibrant version of yourself.
This Spring into Summer, we honor the 8 Limbs not just as ancient wisdom — but as daily invitations to move, breathe, grow, and shine brighter from the inside out.
Spring Seasonal Flow: Breath, Awareness & Meditation for Renewal 💚
1. Yama (Ethical Foundation): Aparigraha (Non-Grasping & Freedom from Attachment)
Spring into Summer reminds us that true growth requires trust — not control.
Aparigraha, the Yama of non-grasping, invites us to release clinging: to outcomes, expectations, timelines, or identities.
🌱 In Your Practice:
Plant your intentions and show up with steady effort — without demanding specific results.
Flow with presence rather than perfection. Modify poses not from weakness, but from honoring your truth.
🌸 In Your Life:
Tend your goals daily, but stay open to how they may evolve.
Let go of the need to prove or push. Trust that your light grows stronger through care, not force.
🌻 Seasonal Aparigraha Reminder:
The flower doesn't cling to its petals. It blooms freely, trusting the seasons. So can you.
2. Niyama (Personal Foundation): Santosha (Contentment & Joyful Presence)
Even as we work toward new growth and elevation, Santosha teaches us to find joy in the process — to celebrate what is already thriving within us.
🌞 In Your Practice:
Find satisfaction in the breath between poses, not just the peak posture.
Glow in your own presence, knowing each moment on the mat is complete in itself.
🌿 In Your Life:
Honor your small daily rituals as sacred acts of nourishment.
Measure success by your presence, your heart, and your effort — not by external milestones.
🌻 Seasonal Santosha Reminder:
Contentment doesn't mean stopping growth — it means loving yourself through every stage of it.
3. Asana (Physical Postures for Grounding, Expansion, and Radiance)
Our physical practice this season mirrors the natural rhythm:
Root ➔ Build ➔ Expand ➔ Glow
🌱 May (Plant):
Tree Pose (Vrksasana) — Deepen roots while reaching upward.
Low Lunge with Heart Opening (Anjaneyasana Variation)
🌿 June (Tend):
Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II) — Strong presence and steady vision.
Chair Pose (Utkatasana) — Fuel inner fire and resilience.
Crescent Lunge (Ashta Chandrasana) — Balance power with grace.
🌻 July (Glow + Elevate):
Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana) — Radiate lightness and strength.
Wild Thing (Camatkarasana) — Expand the heart and energy outward.
Dancer’s Pose (Natarajasana) — Celebrate grace, freedom, and lift.
✨ These postures remind us that true strength is grounded, true lightness is rooted, and true elevation is earned through steady, joyful tending.
4.Pranayama (Breathwork Practice): Dirgha Pranayama (Three-Part Breath Training)
As we move through the season of expansion and elevation, mastering your breath is essential. Dirgha Pranayama — the Three-Part Breath — trains your body and nervous system to support grounded growth, radiant energy, and calm resilience.
This style of breathing has been practiced in traditional yoga for centuries and is now widely supported by modern science for its benefits:
Strengthens respiratory muscles (especially the diaphragm)
Increases lung capacity and oxygen efficiency
Activates the parasympathetic nervous system (relaxation response)
Enhances energy, mental clarity, and emotional regulation
🌿 Understanding the Diaphragm:Three-Part Breath
When we talk about breathing deeply, it’s not just about expanding the belly — it’s about engaging your diaphragm, the powerful dome-shaped muscle that lives beneath your lungs and heart.
✅ When you inhale deeply:
The diaphragm contracts and moves downward, flattening slightly.
This downward movement creates more space in the chest cavity.
As a result, the lungs can expand fully, drawing in more oxygen.
As the lungs fill, the belly naturally expands outward (because the organs are gently displaced by the descending diaphragm).
✅ When you exhale fully:
The diaphragm relaxes and moves upward, back into its dome shape.
This reduces space in the chest cavity and pushes air out of the lungs.
The belly gently softens and draws back toward the spine.
🌬️ Think of it this way:
Inhale = Diaphragm presses down, belly expands outward naturally.
Exhale = Diaphragm rises back up, belly softens inward naturally.
*In Yoga We Breathe in and out of the nose.*
🌱 How to Practice:
Find a Comfortable Seat:
Sit on a yoga block or bolster with a tall spine.
Place your hands gently on your knees.
Create Space:
Draw your elbows slightly back toward your waist to open the chest and free the diaphragm.
Three-Part Breath Focus:
First: Inhale deeply into the belly, by drawing the diaphragm down creating feeling the belly rise.
Second: Continue inhaling into the ribcage, widening the side body.
Third: Finish the inhale by filling the upper chest, feeling the collarbones lift slightly.
Exhale fully in reverse: chest → ribs → belly.
Tip: Imagine the breath flowing like a wave — low to high on the inhale, high to low on the exhale.
🌿 Breath Awareness Exercise:
Set a timer for 1 minute.
Breathe naturally using the Three-Part Breath technique.
Count each full inhale + exhale as one cycle.
Record how many full breaths you complete in one minute.
🌻 Practice Diaphragmatic Emphasis (Round 2):
Repeat, but focus on expanding the belly fully first — engaging deep diaphragm movement.
Merge the breath together fluidly from belly → ribs → chest.
Notice: does slowing the breath naturally happen?
🌞 Fluidity & Strength (Round 3):
Practice again for 1 minute, emphasizing smooth continuous expansion on the inhale and complete release on the exhale.
Allow each cycle to flow without force, savoring the fullness and depth.
🌿 Off the Mat:
Use this breath pattern during high-stress moments or transitions to return to your centered, radiant state.
Perfect before meetings, driving, or ending the day.
✨ Why Three-Part Breath for Spring into Summer?
Plant: Expand your capacity for fresh energy and intention (inhale fully).
Tend: Build respiratory strength and diaphragmatic control (steady practice).
Glow: Improve oxygenation and pranic energy flow (nourish your glow).
Elevate: Calm the mind, lift the heart, expand the spirit (rise naturally).
5. Pratyahara (Withdrawal of Senses): Rooting Presence in Energy, Not Overwhelm
Spring into Summer brings an explosion of light, warmth, and stimulation. Pratyahara invites us not to block out experience — but to selectively deepen our awareness, choosing where to place our energy and attention.
🌱 Presence Practices for Spring into Summer:
Mindful Energy Walking: Stroll outside slowly. Instead of absorbing everything, focus on one sensation at a time — the warmth of the sun, the sound of leaves, the rhythm of your breath.
Tend to Your Inner Garden: Sit outside and journal: What energy am I choosing to nourish today?
Feel the Breath of the Season: Pause during your day to simply notice how the air moves across your skin, filling your lungs and fueling your glow.
🌻 Seasonal Pratyahara Insight:
When the world gets louder, you root deeper.
Your energy is sacred. Tend it wisely.
6. Dharana (Concentration): Visualizing Radiant Growth
Spring into Summer invites steady, joyful expansion. Dharana — one-pointed concentration — strengthens by focusing the mind on your inner blooming, not outside chaos.
🌸 Visualization Practice:
Sit tall, close your eyes, and visualize a vibrant garden within you.
Imagine one small seed you've planted — maybe an intention, a dream, a mindset shift.
With each inhale, see it growing stronger: roots deepening, stem rising, leaves unfurling.
With each exhale, visualize energy feeding its strength — no rushing, no forcing, only steady tending.
🌻 Seasonal Dharana Reminder:
You don't need to control the bloom.
You just need to feed the light within.
7. Dhyana (Meditation): Solar Heart Meditation
As the sun reaches its peak during early summer, Dhyana — meditation — becomes a practice of stillness in motion: opening, receiving, and radiating without effort.
💚 Solar Heart Meditation:
Sit comfortably, connect to your breath, and bring awareness to your heart center (Anahata Chakra).
Visualize a glowing golden-green light at your heart — like sunlight filtered through lush leaves.
With each inhale, the light grows richer, expanding through your chest, shoulders, and arms.
With each exhale, feel tension dissolve and gratitude rise.
Repeat mentally:
"I tend my light with love. I glow with trust."
🌞 Seasonal Meditation Insight:
Your breath is your sunlight.
Your heart is your summer garden.
8. Samadhi (Union): Harmonizing with the Elements of Light and Air
Summer embodies expansion, lightness, and joy — qualities of the air and fire elements. Samadhi, union with all, is felt when we live not against the rhythms of nature, but inside them.
💨 Practices to Deepen Elemental Connection:
Open Movement: Practice expansive poses like Half Moon, Dancer’s Pose, or Wild Thing outdoors when possible — feel yourself moving with, not against, the air.
Breath Rituals: Begin or end your day with Three-Part Breath (Dirgha Pranayama), honoring air as the bridge between body and spirit.
Sunlight Gratitude: Spend mindful time in the early morning or late afternoon sun, receiving its life-giving energy without rushing or distraction.
🌻 Seasonal Samadhi Reflection:
You are not separate from nature’s rise.
You are blooming with it — one breath, one step, one glow at a time.
✨ Final Invitation:
This Spring into Summer, let your practice evolve naturally:
🌱 Plant with presence.
🌿 Tend with strength.
🌞 Glow with gratitude.
🌻 Elevate with trust.
Your light is rising.
Nurture it fiercely, tend it lovingly — and watch yourself soar. 🌿🌞✨