Every yoga practice must have purpose, order and meaning
The classic version of the Mountain pose is as stable as any standing pose gets – you are just standing there on your two feet trying to keep the weight[…]
One concern that I hear often from yoga practitioners is: I keep working on my balance, but it doesn’t seem to be improving. If that’s the case, we need to[…]
My son loves to watch this YouTube video of Danny MacAskill riding his bike across the rooftops of Gran Canaria. Needless to say, this type of physical performance requires unbelievable[…]
When we work on balance postures in yoga we usually focus on maintaining a steady position for a certain amount of time. This is a very useful aspect of balance[…]
Many years ago I read an article on balance in one of the yoga magazines and one visual that the author used had stuck with me. She talked about trying[…]
Watching your kid learn how to walk is a pretty fascinating experience. When you see him wobble and plop down with almost every step, it’s hard to believe that one[…]
The most dramatic experience I ever had with my balance failing me was about 8 years ago. Swine flu was going around that year and got me, making me very,[…]
I find it a bit funny that some folks roll their eyes when we talk about energy movement throughout the body in our yoga practice, but have no problem discussing[…]
Am I the only one who finds that sometimes detailed instructions on how to get yourself into a pose sound contradictory? For example, I was checking out the Yoga Journal’s page[…]
There are many suggestions on the internet on how to “loosen up the shoulders”. Most of them boil down to bringing the shoulders through the full range of motion: do[…]
When a new student comes to see me about her shoulder pain, the first thing I usually ask her to do is LEAVE HER SHOULDER ALONE. This might seem a[…]
I started taking tennis lessons recently. My tennis pro tells us in every class: “Save your shoulders! Do not swing with just your arm, turn your whole body!” All athletes[…]
Few years ago my husband had developed a nagging pain in his shoulder. It wasn’t sharp, but it was one of those pains that you hope would go away quickly[…]
My son’s favorite movie nowadays is Inside Out. He would literally watch it every day if we let him. He quotes the characters all the time and retells the jokes.[…]
I remember reading an article couple of years ago by a yoga teacher who observed a tendency to give too much anatomical instruction in yoga classes. As expected, she got[…]
You know how after some yoga classes you feel more balanced and centered and after others you feel more disjointed and discombobulated? There are many factors that affect the outcome[…]
At a first glance it might seem that axial extension poses are easy – what’s so hard about sitting upright and breathing for a while? But we all know that[…]
A few weeks ago I took my son to get a haircut and there was another family waiting ahead of us, a father with three boys ages between 5 and[…]
There are two distinctive ways of lengthening the spine while doing axial extension postures – one that focuses on bringing the spine into maximum vertical alignment, and another one that[…]
Everybody is different, and every body is different, with its own set of unique structural, physiological and mental-emotional challenges. I was taught to take them all into account when designing[…]
