It was the third time I’d practiced yoga. The studio was particularly hot that mid-summer day as the class moved in sync with breath and one another. We were only part-way through the class, transitioning into our twists, linking working one side of the body to the other with vinyasa. I had just willed my [...]
Staying grounded with Restorative Yoga Restorative Yoga is something that I’ve become a huge fan of over the last year. I find that it’s a terrific complement to the more powerful vinyasa practices that I do. Often in fact, I take breaks from doing any vinyasa flows and just stick with Restorative for a week [...]
Sometimes we yogis miss very clear opportunities during our daily lives to take our practice off of the mat and place it firmly and prominently into our every day existence. It can be all too easy to become comfortable with how we view our practice and the world around us. Yoga provides a wonderful toolbox [...]
Here’s a question that was emailed to me recently concerning someone who is new to Yoga and how he feels it is affecting his diet and overall health. Since I fully re-engaged in the Yoga “lifestyle” – and particularly since I entered Yoga Teacher Training – I have seen tremendous changes in my diet and [...]
Rod Stryker talks about Vinyasa Krama, the importance of sequencing, and bringing a more mindful approach and holistic balance to your practice.
Proper form always comes before depth in a posture. Your depth within a posture will change from month to month, week to week, day to day, and during each unfolding moment within each posture as you find your edge, and work to expand it. But proper form is proper form: unchanging. During your yoga practice [...]
Recently, a close friend of mine was asking me about meditation. He knows I practice yoga and meditation and he was picking my brain to find out a little bit more about how it could benefit him. At one point he uttered the famous phrase that every beginner says about meditation, “I CAN’T meditate. I [...]
The trend of professional athletes discovering the benefits of yoga – and hot yoga in particular – is becoming more and more commonplace. Ballplayers are finding that yoga not only helps them recover from injuries more quickly, but that it also helps keep them from being injured in the first place and can even aid [...]
I found this on a Facebook post by a friend of mine, and I thought it was so powerful and accurate to where I am in my life right now that it would be worth reposting here on the blog…I’m sure that many people will be able to relate…enjoy. “Anything is one of a million [...]
Injuries are inevitable for any professional athlete, but increasing numbers of them are turning to yoga to not only rehab their injuries, but to try to avoid them altogether, or at least reduce the downtime so get they can get back on the court, field or pitch as quickly as possible. Just ask Kurt Thomas [...]
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