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[…]
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How to capture your students’ attention (Part 2)
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[…]
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How to capture your students’ attention (Part 1)
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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Yoga’s secret ingredient for the busy mind
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[…]
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Yoga practice for courage and strength
Marti, a 20-year old undergraduate, aspired to be a comedy writer. Debilitating anxiety around all forms of writing, however, led her to take a semester off of school. During this[…]
How to keep your teaching fresh and inspired
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[…]
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Discovering the yoga of writing, Part 2
Part 1 of Aggie’s post Discovering the Common Ground between Yoga Practice and the Writing Process Shortly after my relationship to writing begand to mend, I found another yoga teacher[…]
How to prepare for “pelvic opening” poses
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[…]
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Discovering the Yoga of Writing, Part 1
In the Beginning was the Word I was an experienced, professional writer when I began practicing yoga. In those days, it never occurred to me that yoga and writing could[…]
Do you prefer “noodle hips” or a spring in your step?
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[…]
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Body asymmetries are more then a minor nuisance
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[…]
How habitual movement patterns can hurt our bodies
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[…]
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Utthita Trikonasana adaptations (short videos)
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[…]
Controversial Utthita Trikonasana: is it necessary to lengthen both sides of the torso?
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[…]
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Guidelines for Partner Yoga
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog article about partner yoga, or more accurately, everything I don’t like about it. Even if I think it’s unwise, however, my yoga teacher[…]
Avoid common pitfalls while bending sideways
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[…]
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Breathe better yoga practice
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[…]
Why do we bend sideways?
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[…]
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