After the rush of the holidays and with the knowingness it will still be a while till summer, you may be inclined to hunker down – hibernate if you could – or at least slow down your pace and spend more time attending to your...
Practicing Yin Yoga poses offers the opportunity to find profound release of tension in the deeper lying tissues of the body, and significantly increase range of motion. Because the nature of this practice is one of passive ‘stretching’*, students often think they need to ‘warm...
Hot yoga seems to be ‘hot’. When I look at yoga class schedules I often see hot yoga and warm vinyasa on offer. And then, of course, there is the chain of Bikram Yoga studios in which yoga is practiced in a room heated up...
This title sounds like an episode of Big Bang Theory. It’s actually quite befitting as I feel pretty much the same about this sitcom as I do about Instagram challenges; it’s funny and entertaining on one hand, and it’s silly and annoying on the other...
After months of deliberating and hesitating – you feel that you are not flexible, the scene intimidates you, and you don’t have the right outfit – you have decided to take a yoga class at your local yoga studio. Because you are not sure what...
In this day and age, yoga seems to be a practice that is all about the ability to get into the most complicated postures and to get a workout in, under the pretense that we are being ‘spiritual’ and are taking care of ourselves. I’m...
You may have noticed that at the end of a yoga class, after Savasana, the teacher usually guides you to roll over to your right side before coming up to sit. Students have asked me why we roll to the right side and not the...
The practice of yoga has become so popular these days; it seems virtually everyone has tried a class at some point. Especially in the beginning, a yoga class can be overwhelming though: “Where do I put my mat? Do I really have to take off...
It seems that everything in life is a challenge nowadays. To keep up with Facebook, emails, groceries, eating healthy, getting enough exercise, taking time to meditate; it all requires effort and planning. Then still, it seems that there are not enough hours in the day....
I don’t know if you ever read any “self-help” books, but I do. I really don’t like the term “self-help” though. It sounds so eh, well, desperate. Like you have tried everything, and then as a last solution there is the do-it-yourself shelf at the...