Every yoga practice must have purpose, order and meaning
When we work with yoga students one-on-one, it is essential to keep detailed notes of our work. Those notes help us determine students’ challenges and strengths; develop an appropriate plan[…]
Are you teaching yoga in a city, or thinking about moving to an urban center to teach? Would you like to work one-on-one with individual students and clients for yoga[…]
“I’d love to quit my job and just teach yoga,” says a teacher-in-training or newly certified yoga teacher or yoga therapist. “You need a plan. And don’t quit your day[…]
I’ve had the chance to work on great projects as a yoga teacher involved with research— to study whether and how yoga can help with heart health, chronic back pain,[…]
Are you attracted to natural spaces as the place to live and work? Do you find comfort in mountains, forests, lake country, an island or farm fields? Whether you’ve always[…]
Have you heard? Twists help with digestion. Static side plank (Vasisthasana) improves scoliosis. “Yoga is good for…” and before we say this, do we pause to confirm what we know,[…]
We tend to think of physical pain, depression and anxiety as stand-alone issues. If you experience physical pain, you usually try to figure out where the damage is and what[…]
Is there a challenge that you are dealing with right now, or a problem that you are trying to solve? If so, your natural inclination is probably to focus on[…]
What do you think is the most effective yogic tool for working with the intellectual mind? Is it meditation? Nope. Meditation helps you to observe and focus the mind, but[…]
The tale goes…long, long ago, before asana was a thing, Yogis meditated for hours and hours and as they complained to their teachers about aches and pains from sitting so[…]
Recently I had the opportunity to teach Yoga in a studio. Like, in a room that’s made for Yoga…where the floors are clean…the blankets are folded and plenty…the temperature is[…]
I remember one of my first Yoga classes – I had raced to the studio from work. Frantic and running late, the whole drive I was creating to-do lists in[…]
Sometimes Yoga is for those who practice it…and for us, we know that familiar feeling of arriving on the mat. It changes us. We instantly breathe a little better and[…]
We don’t know why a particular class or practice stays with us. I think of it as being part of the big mystery. One, in particular, that stays with me[…]
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.” – Pema Chödrön: The Places that Scare[…]
As a small child, I was often haunted by snakes. I remember running wildly through the rugged terrain near my home in the Los Angeles hills with the raw anticipation[…]
Marti, a 20-year old undergraduate, aspired to be a comedy writer. Debilitating anxiety around all forms of writing, however, led her to take a semester off of school. During this[…]
Part 1 of Aggie’s post Discovering the Common Ground between Yoga Practice and the Writing Process Shortly after my relationship to writing begand to mend, I found another yoga teacher[…]
In the Beginning was the Word I was an experienced, professional writer when I began practicing yoga. In those days, it never occurred to me that yoga and writing could[…]
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog article about partner yoga, or more accurately, everything I don’t like about it. Even if I think it’s unwise, however, my yoga teacher[…]
