Every yoga practice must have purpose, order and meaning
Honestly, I thought that we disposed of the neck circles long, long time ago. In every anatomy training I ever attended – college courses, personal trainer certification, yoga trainings –[…]
There is an ongoing discussion in the yoga community about the directionality of the breath – do you begin your inhalation in the chest and then fill the belly or[…]
I must admit: before I started my viniyoga teacher training, I’ve never heard of sacrum issues. Sure, I knew what sacrum was, but my first teacher training program never talked[…]
Not long ago an acquaintance of mine said to me: “I saw a picture of this cool pose on line and I tried it – man, my back hurt afterwards!”[…]
In the recent years yoga has become a go-to tool for stress management and very often it’s being presented as “Yoga for relaxation and stress management” with an assumption that[…]
One of my friends had recently reported on her experience in a yoga class: “The teacher was really nice, but she kept calling us “folks” literally in every sentence and[…]
Many yoga teachers have had an experience of a student stepping into a class and immediately plopping up into a Shoulderstand (or a Headstand, which is even riskier). It always[…]
You know how sometimes you go to a yoga class and leave feeling more centered, energized and whole? And other times you leave feeling more fragmented and discombobulated? Why is[…]
William Broad had done it again. He sounded an alarm last year about the potential risks of the yoga practice and caused some heated discussions in the yoga community. This[…]
I remember few years ago I got a new client who arrived to our first session with a list of issues that was about 2 pages long. It included things[…]
Most of the cells in our body and brain are constantly striving toward the state of homeostasis and want us to be happy, healthy and successful. But there are some[…]
Nowadays everybody seems to be an expert on everything. For example, I am amazed at the number of tweets routinely featured and quoted in the media even if they come[…]
I remember in my first teacher training program we had “alignment clinics”, where we were told exactly where to place the feet, knees, shoulders and hips in each pose. Was[…]
Recently I’ve watched a video on YouTube by a popular yoga teacher and couldn’t help but wince every time she instructed her students to “roll up to stand one notch[…]
Let’s review: We are looking for three yoga poses that are simple enough to do without any other preparation, versatile enough to be adaptable for a variety of needs and[…]
Somebody in my yoga therapist training had come up with a term “yoga snack”. No, it doesn’t refer to a power bar or a small bowl of kitchari. Yoga snack[…]
I remember in my early days as a yoga teacher I would get indignant when I heard people talking strictly about asana. “This is not real yoga! Yoga is so[…]
At the beginning of each yoga teacher training I like to ask my students: “If some area of your body gets tight, what do you do with it?” The answer[…]
Physical therapists know this. Pilates teachers know this. Athletes and dancers know this; how come yoga teachers are behind? Recently one of the commentators on my blog, Michele, asked me:[…]
Couple of days ago I read an article titled “Yoga after 50“, that made it sound as if older students practicing yoga is some sort of a novel idea. I[…]
