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Shoulderstand – The Mother
As yoga teachers, we don’t get the question about standing on the shoulders as much as on the head. For some reason, Sarvangasana – short form “shoulder stand” – seems…
Why Would I Want to Stand on My Head?
As I am teaching the “Back to Basics” class for The Yoga Place, of course we touch on building the strong foundations needed to practice future inversions. One of the…
The “New Normal” with Yoga
Well, here we are in summer 2021. The restrictions of COVID are easing and the sun and the temperatures are perfect to get out and explore what open society has…
From Fantasy to Fascination
We are moving into the third chapter of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with our Yoga Sutra Discussion Group (meets the last Sunday of every month at 11:00am live online).…
A New Year for Yoga
Well 2020 was a weird one, huh? It was a new year full of new experiences that I am not sure any one of us could have predicted. Even the…
“Right and Wrong” in Yoga?
The terminology of “right and wrong” comes up more often than I would like in yoga, especially pertaining to Iyengar Yoga. Though it is something we encourage often, students of…
Savasana – “Corpse Pose”
I have been thinking about this pose a lot this week. It is such an important pose and in many ways we treat it as “just the thing we do”…
How Do We Know??
How do we know what we don’t know? And, are we willing to open ourselves to the discomfort of changing habits so ingrained they feel like they are permanently part…
