What makes your heart beat? A yogic view of energy and physiology
What differentiates a living breathing human body from a cadaver? After all, the hardware is still there: heart, lungs, brain – they are just not working. If you ask a[…]
What differentiates a living breathing human body from a cadaver? After all, the hardware is still there: heart, lungs, brain – they are just not working. If you ask a[…]
Recently a new student asked me: “Why do we care about breath in yoga anyway?” This caused me to stumble for a moment as different possible answers rushed through my[…]
My yoga teacher likes to ask: what is more important – your hamstrings or your liver? The question is not meant to undermine the importance of the structural issues that[…]
This simple yoga practice consists of four 5-minute stretch breaks that you can do whenever you have to sit too much. It is designed to release tension in the areas[…]
When I was in middle school, a friend of mine, whose mom was a doctor, mentioned in passing that many bus drivers had problems with their intestines falling out since[…]
This yoga practice will help release tension in the muscles that get stressed from running or hiking. It includes both stretching and strengthening poses for the hips, legs and back,[…]