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Svadhyaya: Try This Life Stage Review to Develop Clarity and Self-Awareness
Clarity is an essential quality to embody to understand who you are and what difficulties you face, how they make you feel, and why you react or respond to them the way you do. Clarity is related to the niyama... Read more
Foot Yoga: Wake Up Your Toes
If setting down roots is the fundamental act in a yoga practice, then we’d best pay attention to our feet, the primary roots for all standing poses, and for much of our life off the mat. The more time we spend... Read more
Sparks of Divinity: BKS Iyengar’s Wisdom
Have you ever read words that changed your life? Here are some that recently changed mine: “If doubt arises in your discipline, let it come. You do your work and let doubt go about its work. Let’s see which... Read moreFeatured Courses
While millions of Americans suffer from pain in the low back and pelvis, many back and hip issues are actually the result of sacroiliac instability (SI), i.e. an imbalance in the sacroiliac joint, which often goes undiagnosed or is improperly treated. Alarmingly, yoga practitioners appear to...Read more
Hip openers are among the most satisfying and powerful yoga poses. They hold a tremendous potential for transformation; they can help us release deep-seated tension and trauma of the past, which many of us hold locked in the hip area. When practiced correctly, hip openers are a great way to soothe...Read more
Yoga is more popular than ever, but as yoga has become a household word, has it also become a mile wide and an inch deep? Are we missing out on the essence of yoga, even as the practice has become a household word? What can we do to capture the deepest aspects of yoga and integrate these into our...Read more
Most people know the importance of core strengthening for health and long-term well-being, but the pelvic floor is an important group of core muscles, which tend to get ignored. “The torso is like a tote bag for your organs,” says Leslie Howard, a Bay area yoga teacher who conducts workshops...Read more
Spiritual Wellbeing: What It’s All About
Isn’t it fascinating to consider the paradoxical nature of asana as a practice of spiritual wellbeing? We seek something beyond the body through the body, in the body, and using the body. I recently received... Read more
Is Online Yoga Teacher Training for You?
If there is a silver lining in the pandemic, it is that the dramatic expansion of online yoga has opened up countless new opportunities for yoga teachers. Chief among them is the opportunity to take Yoga... Read more
Baby Dancer (Natarajasana) Mini Practice: The Dance of Your Life
Natarajasana (King Dancer Pose) is derived from a pose in the classical Indian dance form Bharatnatyam. Perhaps this is why I find it to be one of the most elegant and beautiful forms in modern posture... Read more
There Are More Than Five Yamas
Although many of us have been told that the Yoga Sutras of Patajanli is the single authoritative text on yoga, this isn’t really true. As yoga evolved over thousands of years, there were many different schools... Read more
Decode Sanskrit: A Short Primer
I wrote about using Sanskrit vs. English names when you teach yoga poses in a previous post. The answer, as in so much of yoga practice is, it depends. If you’d like to explore using Sanskrit at least some of... Read more
English or Sanskrit Pose Names?
Like everything in yoga culture, there are many opinions about how to name yoga poses. Teachers with a more traditional bent often prefer Sanskrit pose names. Newer teachers often prefer English names. Still,... Read more