Bob is so embarrassed. It finally happened. He could control it no longer. Bob was working on Marichyasana C pose when he farted. Unfortunately it was not one of those silent ones. Everyone in the room heard it. But should Bob be embarrassed because he farted during yoga class? Is there a problem with farting […]
Bob looks with envy at Alice as she works on one of her yoga poses. He has always wanted to be able to do that pose as well as Alice does it. Bob does many yoga poses with ease but he has always wanted to be able to do more. Bob is suffering from the […]
Alice has been trying to get her arm and hand in the right place for Bhekasana (Frog pose) and is having no success. Her big problem is that she can’t see what her arm and hand are doing as she reaches behind her back to take a hold of her foot. Her teachers tells her […]
“There is no point in me working on this pose anymore” thinks Alice. “No matter how hard I try I am not making any progress. I am not getting any benefit from it. ” Alice is suffering from the Sour Grape trap. Aesop wrote about Sour Grapes a long time ago in his story about […]
Bob’s hands are almost there. They are so close he can almost feel his fingers touching. Bob is working on holding his hands behind his back in Marichyasana C. Bob has been working towards this goal for a long time. His teacher comes up behind him. She reaches down and helps Bob’s shoulders to come […]
The butterfly moves gracefully from flower to flower, taking a sip of nectar from each. The butterfly’s colourful wings move back and forth through a very large range of motion as it floats on the air. Alice watches the butterfly and realizes how much her shoulders have become like the butterfly’s wings. Not nearly as […]
Alice’s teacher is watching Alice working on binding in Marichyasana A. Her hands are almost touching behind her back. “Alice you will have more success with binding if you use the rolling pin factor to work with your Edge.” Her teacher tells her. Alice looks at her teacher with a puzzled look. “Watch a rolling […]
Bob massaged his aching lower back. It has been getting sore a lot lately the more that he works on his computer. Bob, like a lot of other people, sit at their desk hunched over their computers all day long. He is suffering from the computer hunch. What is the computer hunch The computer hunch […]
Bob’s face is turning red. He is holding his breath as he struggles to bind in the twisting yoga pose. He has gone way beyond his edge. “Bob, you have to back off a little bit or you are going to hurt yourself!” says his yoga teacher. “You are following the Wind’s plan when you […]
“Boy! Are they ever tall!” thought Alice as she gazed out of the dome car of the train as it approached the Rocky Mountains. This is Alice’s first time seeing the Rocky Mountians. Now she understands her yoga teacher even better when they said to stand tall like a mountain in Tadasana. What is Tadasana […]
