How to exercise your brain with mismatched movement (short videos)
Yoga poses can be used for all sorts of purposes – after all they are just tools to achieve whatever it is that we want to achieve. If our goal[…]
Yoga poses can be used for all sorts of purposes – after all they are just tools to achieve whatever it is that we want to achieve. If our goal[…]
Read Part 1 of this post > Have you been on an airplane lately? It seems that no matter what airline you fly nowadays, they all are trying to outdo[…]
I heard that Sri Krishnamacharya liked to say that when you are doing asana the quality of your attention should be similar to when you try to take a loose[…]
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Students come to yoga classes for all kinds of reasons. Along with the most common ones of stretching, exercising and the like, I often hear “to get out of my[…]
Last week one of my private clients said: “I must be your most boring client because I can’t do all the fancy challenging stuff.” This made me think – what[…]
The last time I went to see my hairstylist and settled in the chair, she said: “Uncross your legs please” before she could start cutting my hair. She sees every[…]
Have you ever come out of a yoga class with your legs feeling like noodles? This often happens if we do a lot of so-called “hip opening moves” in a[…]
Have you ever heard of the Egoscue method? I cannot vouch for its effectiveness since I’ve never tried their E-cises (specific exercises), but I really like Pete Egoscue’s straightforward approach[…]
For the past couple of years I’ve been trying to figure out this mysterious pain in the right hip that I would always get on the third day of any[…]
There are many ways of doing Utthita Trikonasana; the main question that we need to answer is why we choose one version over the other. The are ways to emphasize[…]
As yoga teachers we know that the way we move in and out of the pose is just as important as what we do while holding the pose. It couldn’t[…]
There is this interesting thing that I observed during my years of teaching yoga – it often seems that if the student has an incredible range in bending backwards, she[…]
One of the most common misconceptions I encounter when it comes to breathing is that many students think that we can move our lungs at will. This is not the[…]
One of the revelatory experiences I had in my viniyoga teacher training came after a side bending-focused practice. After doing a number of lateral bends and some breathing practices, my[…]
Last week I contributed an article to a series of articles on the topic of Yoga sequencing for the individual hosted by Kate over at You & the yoga mat. This[…]
A model is a sort of a mental construct that we use to explain and understand reality; it is not reality itself. This is an important point to understand when[…]
A new client showed up to our first appointment few years ago with a long list of serious health issues. It included things like sleep apnea, fibromyalgia, atrial fibrillation, vein[…]
I remember hating Latin in college. Unfortunately, it was required for my degree, so I had to endure. For example, translating a Latin sentence takes a lot of work because[…]
In my therapist training many years ago my teacher had asked for a volunteer with some sort of digestive distress when we were discussing the topic of digestion. One of[…]