There it was again. A long audible sigh from my neighbour. She is happiest when the people around her and the teacher are paying attention to her. She has found that sighing works really well. It is quite distracting for the people around her.Aesop wrote about the pitfalls of drawing attention to yourself in one […]
Your Edge is an important component of your yoga practice. Finding and working with your Edge helps you improve your yoga practice. At the same time you avoid injuring yourself. Your Edge is that comfortable yet challenging place in a yoga pose. There can be more than one Edge in an individual yoga pose. Usually […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The old treasure map shows the way to the island but it shows nothing of the surrounding area. Once you go beyond the edge of the map you are in unknown territory. Your yoga pose is like that old map. If you stay in the known territory you are safe. If you go beyond the […]
“The last time I tried Paschimottanasana I pulled my hamstrings and it took a couple of weeks for them to heal.” thought Alice “I hope this new technique works.” Alice inhales and lifts her torso slightly. Exhaling she lowers her torso again. With each breath she takes Alice is moving away from and towards her […]
Bob is attempting to shut the door on his shed but there is a problem. There is so much rust on the hinge that the door will hardly move. Bob pushes really hard and with a squeal the door reluctantly moves but it stops short of fully closed. The door hinge needs some oil, otherwise […]
The hang glider kept going and ran right off the edge of the cliff. He disappeared out of sight only to appear a little while later soaring up into the sky. While it is a good idea for the hang glider to routinely go running beyond the edge of the cliff, it is not a […]
