There is nothing I love more on an overcast Tuesday than a beautiful and soothing video. Somehow, it helps get the beginning of the week off to a gentler start, easing you from the weekend into the chaos of the work week.
This particular video shows a beautiful Vinyasa yoga practice taking place on a beach. This is actually a short film, rather than a tutorial, and it does an excellent job of capturing the grace of the practitioner’s shapes and forms, much like this incredible acroyoga demonstration.
It’s particularly beautiful that they chose to stage this on a beach, because the movement of the tide is so closely aligned with the core ‘flow’ principle at the heart of Vinyasa. Callan Polmer, the practitioner whose movements are captured here, is an instructor based on the waterside, in Santa Monica.
According to her website, Polmer comes from a background in ballet, which often transitions naturally into interest in yoga. Her style, developed from her training at Laughing Buddha in New York, “…spoke to her because of its infusion of creative choreography with Ayurveda, breath work, and mythology.”
You can see the mindfulness of her practice in action in this video. Most importantly, like Jessamyn Stanley, very little that she does seems outside of the grasp of any yoga novice, which makes it comforting and accessible to watch.
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