Envisioning Your Life: How Yoga Helps
Yoga practice is all-important, as the tapas – the discipline – will shape your vision and make it real.
Rainy Day Yoga Practice
It’s wet cold and dismal. What’s a yogini to do to keep her spirits up? A specialised yoga practice, of course!
When in Yoga, Speak Sanskrit
It may be for you a different kind of stretch to learn the Sanskrit names of poses, but it is a worthy use of your time and brain power.
Yoga and Relationship
The old master, Patanjali says that non reaction is the mastery of our tenancy to react, and the special effort involved in doing this is really just allowing, letting things be.
Job Satisfaction: Consider Yoga Teaching
If you love yoga and have thought about enrolling in a training so you could dive deeper into this discipline that has infinite depth, just do it.
Sequences for "Intensive" Week: Day 6
The purpose of this particular sequence is to soothe and quiet, and the props that are used help keep one’s brain passive so you don’t overwork. The trick is to discover how to work from your “inner body” by tuning in, listening to your breath, and surrendering to each posture.
Sequences for "Intensive" Week: Day 5
I remember hearing a well-known yoga teacher say, “If you can do forward bends easily, you probably can’t do backbends; if you can do backbends easily, you probably can’t do forward bends; and, if you can do both easily, you probably will have difficulty with pranayama.”
Well, usually we do have our strong suit. Forward bends were never mine, but over the years I guess I’ve surrendered myself to them more. […]
Sequence for "Intensive" Week: Day 4
The great thing about doing abdominal exercises is, if they are done properly and pitched to the right level, they make you feel fabulous.
Sequences for "Intensive" Week: Day 3
Like the family of poses called inversions, back bending poses can elicit a love-hate relationship with yoga practitioners.
Sequences for "Intensive" Week: Day 2
The word inversions when applied to yoga asanas strikes fear into many a heart. Formerly polite and obedient students will openly rebel against doing them. Previously undisclosed injuries and anatomical asymmetries will be used as excuses for not participating. And, women who stopped menstruating years ago will claim having their period as reason for abstaining.
Sequences for "Intensive" Week: Day 1
Standing poses, and especially the ones which require physical balance, are symbols for stability and firm foundations.
Now I've Done It – I'm a Yoga Entrepreneur
I didn’t mean to. From Nov. 2009, I really intended to be just a semi-retired yoga teacher in my rural bailiwick. But that wasn’t meant to be. I had so much momentum from 30 years of teaching in a major city that it wasn’t likely I’d disappear off the map. In fact, I had a great 2011 with invitations from various associations, schools and individuals to teach yoga. Writing for and being interviewed by the Australian Yoga magazines, plus almost daily posting on this blog , kept me busy, too. […]