Every yoga practice must have purpose, order and meaning
Recently I received a lovely email from a regular blog reader. She brought up a very important point that is relevant to all yoga practitioners. Here is what she said:[…]
Over the past weekend I felt like the seasons clicked – the summer is now over and fall is upon us. For many of us this means going back to[…]
Whenever you plan to work with hands, wrists and forearms in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: Wrist problems are[…]
Our feet and ankles don’t get a lot of love and attention, even though we rely on them every day to keep us stable enough to support and move the[…]
Whenever you plan to work with legs, knees and ankles in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following points: It is important to[…]
Whenever you plan to work with hip adductors, abductors and rotators in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: Your hips[…]
Whenever you design a class or a private yoga session to address tension in hip flexors, extensors and QL, it helps to remember the following important points: Your hip muscles[…]
Whenever you plan to work with lower back and sacrum in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: Your lower back[…]
Whenever you design a yoga class to strengthen the core or tone the pelvic floor muscles, it helps to remember the following important points: Your core musculature functions as[…]
Whenever you plan to work with shoulders in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: In our daily lives we rotate[…]
Whenever you design a yoga class aimed at releasing tension in the neck and upper back, it helps to remember the following important points: Static stretching of the neck[…]
It is hard for me to believe that June is almost over. My last two weeks seem like a blur of planes, trains, hotels, yoga events and family visits. And[…]
Last week we explored how hormonal fluctuations, pregnancy and postpartum challenges, recurring asymmetrical activity, and sports injuries can lead to sacroiliac joint (SI) dysfunction and manifest as lower back pain.[…]
My grandmother suffered from lower back pain for many years. She described it as sharp, debilitating pain on one side of her lower spine. The only remedy she could find[…]
Few years ago I wrote a blog post about the similarities that a well-designed yoga class has to a good movie. All those ideas still hold true. However, the entertainment[…]
One of my favorite movies to this day is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This remarkable film explores some fascinating themes, including the nature of love and role of[…]
I was educated as a school teacher, and in the past I had written my fair share of lesson plans that usually started with “By the end of the class[…]
When I was going through my yoga therapist training about eight years ago, I was expected to complete a number of assignments in between training sessions. It was a struggle.[…]
Our professional lives seep into our personal lives whether we like it or not. Shawn Achor in his book The Happiness Advantage tells a story of a tax auditor who[…]
I was amused to discover that the word priority came into the English language in the 1400s and meant “the very first or prior thing”. It stayed singular till 1900s[…]
