Beginner's Yoga

As you begin to practice yoga, you may feel overwhelmed by all the forms of yoga you encounter: Ashtanaga, Vinyasa, Hatha, Tantra, Forrest, Yin, Kundalini, Jivamukti, and on and on …. How to choose?? To [...]

Hi there, Love your site and love the fact that I can practice the postures at home! I’m fairly new to yoga and have also recently started meditating. It’s amazing how much better and at [...]

I normally don’t post videos like this on here, but you gotta see this … And I have to train my cat to do this!

Often times when practicing yoga we focus on the position of our extremities and forget about the finer details, like our hands.  However, our hands can form our base (as in downward facing dog), or [...]

I would like to start doing some yoga, I am a very beginner and want to do something that will stretch my body and make me more flexible. What do you recommend? Erin Hi Erin! [...]

I’m running a Yoga club for the kids I work with at the youth center and I was wondering if you had any suggestions on how to get them to focus on breathing. I’ve heard [...]

Teaching this week I asked my students come into Warrior III, and I noticed some of them struggling to get their arms overhead, but because I had given the cue “extend arms towards the front [...]

Hi Sarah! I have really tight hamstrings and shoulders.  What are some good ways to loosen them up? Thanks, Jill Hi Jill, and thanks for writing! These are probably the two most common areas for [...]

What should I do if I get a head rush in yoga class? Nancy Ah, the faint feeling, the blackened vision, the dizzyness – As someone with the blood pressure of a five-year-old, I am [...]

Hi Sarah, Love the site and finding all the information on here very helpful! Being new to yoga, I’m finding it to be much more enjoyable then some of the exercise programs I’ve tried in [...]