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Monthly Archive: April 2015

  • 4
    • in Teaching tips · yoga for your body
    • — 29 Apr, 2015

    Why do we bend back in yoga?

    If you follow any famous yogis on Instagram, you will inevitably see many beautiful, glamorous images of backbends in your feed. There is something about backbends that makes the practitioner[…]

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    4
    • in teacher's stories
    • — 24 Apr, 2015

    Running to My Mat: How Yoga Helped Me Face Injury

    I was once a runner. I started small – 30 seconds at a time, eagerly watching the time tick by on the kitchen timer I carried in my hand, waiting[…]

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  • 5
    • in Teaching tips · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 22 Apr, 2015

    How to take your yoga practice to the next level

    When we think about taking our yoga practice “to the next level”, it often conjures images of deeper stretches, more challenging poses, longer practice, etc. These are all fine ideas,[…]

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    8
    • in Virtual Yoga Studio · Yoga "snacks"
    • — 17 Apr, 2015

    Yoga for gardening

    I live in Michigan, and spring had a pretty slow start here. As soon as the snow melted, I could feel a strong drive to spend time outside and get[…]

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  • 6
    • in Sequencing basics · Teaching tips · yoga for your body
    • — 15 Apr, 2015

    Should we take the body to the maximum bend possible in every direction possible?

    A few months ago one of the teachers in my yoga teachers Facebook group posed a question: would it be a good idea to go straight from Camel pose to[…]

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    0
    • in teacher's stories
    • — 10 Apr, 2015

    Yoga for climbers is not about building arm strength – it’s about developing body awareness

    Few years ago two Chilean friends, Andrés and Rodrigo, who are great climbers and regularly practice yoga, visited me in Germany. Because of the wet weather we couldn’t climb outside,[…]

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  • 17
    • in Sequencing basics
    • — 8 Apr, 2015

    Twists vs forward bends as compensation postures – who wins?

    Most yoga teachers are aware of the idea of compensation (pratikriya, which literally means counteracting). It basically means that in the course of the practice we challenge the body, breath,[…]

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    10
    • in Virtual Yoga Studio
    • — 3 Apr, 2015

    How to prepare the body and mind for meditation

    My first serious yoga teacher training was a residential one, where I lived in a yoga community for about a month focusing on nothing but yoga. It was fun for[…]

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  • 18
    • in Sequencing basics · Teaching tips · yoga for your body
    • — 1 Apr, 2015

    Is it safe to begin your yoga practice with seated poses?

    When I was on vacation few weeks ago, I did my first SUP yoga session (yoga on a stand up paddle board). Practicing yoga to the gentle rhythm of the[…]

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