“Alice, I need more aerobic activity in my life if I want to stay healthy and avoid a heart attack!” Elizabeth recently read an article in the Readers Digest that got her thinking about her lifestyle. The article was talking about the benefits of aerobic exercise on the health of your body. The article said […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Alice got a unique gift for Christmas. She got a large wooden doll with a sign on it that said “Open me”. Alice discovered that the doll had a seam around its middle. She twisted it in half and it came apart. Alice was surprised to discover that there was another smaller doll inside the […]
Bob’s yoga teacher is with a tour group and they are exploring the glaciers in Jasper National Park. These glaciers are right beside the road. Even though they are close to the road you still have to be careful when you go exploring on top of them. Suddenly there was a loud cracking sound and […]
