Cultivate Equanimity In This Season
☀️Summer brings with it a vibrant energy — longer days, social invitations, vacations, and the outward momentum of doing. It’s a season of warmth, celebration, and spontaneity. But while this fiery expansion can be invigorating, it also carries the potential for imbalance: burnout, overcommitment, and disconnection from the inner self. At Sol Hot Yoga Studio, we honor the rhythm of the seasons — and with summer’s brightness, we invite you to anchor into the steady glow of equanimity.
☯️ Equanimity (Upekshā) — Balance
Patañjali's Yoga Sutra 1.33 offers the foundational tools for mental clarity and peace by cultivating the Four Divine Abodes — Loving-kindness, Empathy, Shared Joy, and Equanimity. These qualities abide within, and our practice provides opportunity to cultivate each. The fourth, Equanimity is presence without reaction to over-stimulation. It’s the ability to remain centered amidst the swirl of change.
🕯️Sol Hot Yoga Studio serves as a sacred space to harmonize your energy.
Amidst the outward pull of summer adventures and social gatherings, we share a sanctuary where we return to center. In this space, we choose to balance outward momentum with inward stillness. In a Sol class, you’re not stepping away from life, but stepping into alignment with it — balancing the energy you expend with the presence you cultivate.
“Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim.” — B.K.S. Iyengar
That light — your inner radiance — is tended with Sol Hot Yoga. Each breath, each posture, each moment of stillness nourishes the flame, so it can guide you with clarity and warmth through the winds of change.
🌿 Summer as a Teacher
Summer offers a beautiful opportunity to observe the lesson of balance in nature: the sun rises & sets, tides come & go, flowers blossom & fade. In yoga, we connect with this natural rhythm — conscious of inhale & exhale, effort & ease. We are practicing the joy of living.
"The earth laughs in flowers." — e.e. cummins
This joy, this harmony, reminds us to live in tune with our natural rhythms. When we flow with that rhythm, our heart sings. Our practice gives us pause to reflect & celebrate in a way that nourishes, to expand without overreaching — to rise with grace because we are grounded in truth. Everything blooms in time.
And with that blooming comes the capacity to meet life with equanimity — especially when it’s hard. As Mark Twain wrote, "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." True strength is not resistance but release. The flower does not harden — it transforms. The Sol Hot Yoga practices builds the resilience & forgiveness to help us through these changes & challenges with gratitude & grace.
🌺 A Ritual of Retreat
Every time you step onto your mat, you return to yourself. Even once or twice a week can be a powerful anchor. Summer can be a time to sow activity, but don't forget to tend to your roots. Imagine if the sun never set, or if the moon never called the sea to ebb & flood. Cultivate a quality of balance that invites joy, loving-kindness, and empathy to emerge organically — practice a ritual of daily retreat from the heck-tivity of summer festivity.
"Meditation is a way for nourishing & blossoming the divinity within you."
—Amit Ray
Treat your practice as your own sacred space — defend this space in your day, because you know that space is necessary. That space within you is holy ground — the space where true love resides, where your compassion grows, and the well from which your joy pours out into everything you do. Honor that space with your full presence.
At Sol, we are holding space for your fullness — the genuine abundance of your divine qualities. Bring your sun-drenched spirit, your weary feet, your curious heart. Let’s move, breathe, and retreat together to fuel the inner flame that sustains us all year long, through thick & think, through every changing season.
Equanimity in Motion at Sol Hot Yoga Studio. This summer, find your balance. Choose to practice with Sol — bring meaning to motion & kindle the light of purpose.
