Foot Chakras

Connect Your Energy to the Earth

In honor of Earth Day our yoga instructor Maureen led a class that emphasized our connection to the earth. We began in Toe Squat Pose. Toe Squat is a yin pose, and like most yin poses, it looks easy but is not. Stand on your…

Are you more right-brained or left-brained while you practice yoga?

creative or logical

Yoga Body

What I See after 100,000 Minutes Looking in the Mirror

There is something unseemly about a middle aged man in a Speedo standing in front of a mirror. The lines etched under the eyes, the hair that migrated off the head sprouting out the ears and…

Krishnamacharya

Lynchpin Between Ancient and Modern Yoga

Newton took the apple out of the Garden of Eden and used it to demonstrate gravity. Franklin sucked lightening out of the sky and channeled it to the earth. Then Edison captured it in a bulb.

Restorative Yin Yoga

Doing so Litte Feels so Great

Yin yoga is like making a feast out of nothing. The poses are easy, barely poses at all. We hold them a long time; so long I forget I’m in a pose. When the tinkling bell goes off to change, my psyche is far removed…

Dear Yoga,

what you do for me {poetry}

skin.

I’ve been thinking a lot about bodies lately.

My Chakras / My Asanas

How my Poses Reflect my Energy Centers, and the Other Way Around

Specific yoga poses draw from, and contribute to, how the seven chakras exist within each of us. In theory, chakras strength and asana strength correlate…

Yoga is a Fit Vehicle for Healing and Change

A Journey of Transformation Through the Sacred Practice…