Every yoga practice must have purpose, order and meaning
Whenever you plan to work with hip adductors, abductors and rotators in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: Your hips[…]
Whenever you design a class or a private yoga session to address tension in hip flexors, extensors and QL, it helps to remember the following important points: Your hip muscles[…]
Whenever you plan to work with lower back and sacrum in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: Your lower back[…]
Whenever you design a yoga class to strengthen the core or tone the pelvic floor muscles, it helps to remember the following important points: Your core musculature functions as[…]
Whenever you plan to work with shoulders in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: In our daily lives we rotate[…]
Whenever you design a yoga class aimed at releasing tension in the neck and upper back, it helps to remember the following important points: Static stretching of the neck[…]
It is hard for me to believe that June is almost over. My last two weeks seem like a blur of planes, trains, hotels, yoga events and family visits. And[…]
Last week we explored how hormonal fluctuations, pregnancy and postpartum challenges, recurring asymmetrical activity, and sports injuries can lead to sacroiliac joint (SI) dysfunction and manifest as lower back pain.[…]
My grandmother suffered from lower back pain for many years. She described it as sharp, debilitating pain on one side of her lower spine. The only remedy she could find[…]
I remember many years ago when I just started practicing yoga, I learned to do yoga poses in a very specific way: feet go here, arms go there, etc. Once[…]
Five years ago I wrote a blog post about different types of butt pain with specific details on how to identify potential reasons for discomfort and what to do about[…]
Last week we identified three major obstacles that get in our way of making a positive behavior change (whether it’s maintaining a consistent home yoga practice, or any other action[…]
Two weeks ago I asked you to give me feedback on the content of my blog and answer few other questions on how yoga fits into your life. Thank you[…]
Has your regular yoga practice slipped a bit through the holidays? Celebrate the New Year by restarting your home yoga practice; you can find a practice to take care of[…]
My son is really into drawing; wherever we go, I always have a notebook and a pencil ready for him. When we visited Barcelona last summer, we went to all[…]
The beauty of short yoga practices is that you can fit them into small pockets of your day much more easily than a full-length yoga practice. This means that you[…]
Every time I have a yoga video shoot with my videographer I feel slightly guilty. He usually crouches down behind the camera to record my yoga practice. While I feel[…]
In Macbeth Shakespeare states that sleep is “the chief nourisher in life’s feast.” And modern science proves that is truly is. What other miraculous remedy helps you fight infection and[…]
Two years into WWII, the US military realized that due to extraordinarily high levels of stress and lack of sleep many of the combat pilots began to freeze up in[…]
Our students choose to do yoga for all sorts of reasons, but in my personal experience they rarely seek advice of a yoga teacher specifically for sleep problems. However, many[…]
