Looking around the yoga practice room you can easily spot the new people. It has nothing to do with the brand new and trendy yoga clothes that they have bought from the up scale yoga clothing store. The real telling point is how hard they are struggling at their yoga poses. Bob for […]
Every morning it is the same thing, wet hair, apply shampoo, lather, rinse and repeat. And some morning your hair looks great and some other mornings your hair looks ugly and then there are those days where your hair is to die for. What’s going on with tha?. You do the same thing and you […]
Bob is working on being able to do Padmasana the full lotus pose. But Bob has a problem. He has limited flexibility in his hip and thigh joint. Padmasana requires a lot of external rotation of the thigh. When Bob brings his ankles on top of his thighs his knees are way up in the […]
I have an interesting story to tell you about workshops and learning. Many years ago I went to a yoga workshop. It was in fact one of the first workshops that I went to. I took an air plane ride to get there and I spent the weekend learning a lot about Ashtanga Yoga, both […]
“Let’s twist again like we did last Summer!” The line for an old popular song was playing in the back of Alice’s mind while she attempted to twist a little further in Parivrtta Parsvakonasana. “I have never twisted like this before. Not even last summer like that song keeps saying.” thought Alice “I wonder what […]
Bob has been getting frustrated about how slowly the external rotation of his thigh in half bound lotus forward fold Ardha Baddha Padma Pashimottanasana. His heel is stuck part way up his leg. It refuses to get any closer to his hip, where it is supposed to be. There is a pose that Bob can […]
The fence was new once, but now it is getting to be quite old. The paint is faded and peeling in many places, but the sure sign of the age of the fence is how much it is leaning to the side. There are parts of it that have fallen completely down to the ground […]
A friend of mine is getting over knee surgery. His doctor told him to start using an “elliptical” bike to help his knee to heal. He had never been to a health club or gym before. When he got to the gym he noticed that there were three different types of ellipticals and he wasn’t […]
Alice learned a new technique while she was at a weekend yoga workshop recently. She learned about the grounded elbow technique and how it can protect your back while at the same time promoting flexibility in your hip in Marichyasana A. It was a really simple technique that Alice learned in no time at all. […]
“The clothes should dry quickly with all this wind” thought Alice as she approached the clothesline. Alice started to pull the clothes in only to discover that they were wrapped around the line. The clothesline is stuck and Alice is going to be working really hard to get the clothes untangled before she can get […]
