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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I know, it’s the end of a looong day at the office, and your back is killing you: there’s that spot right between the shoulder blades and spine that feels tight and bunched, and your [...]

In India’s Ayurvedic medicine system (more on this coming up-stay tuned!), it is believed that healing begins with the digestive tract. Cleanses are often prescribed to give the organs (especially the stomach and small and [...]

Between personal concerns – the upcoming holidays, stressful work environments, managing family life – and the more far-reaching problems – our countries’ sagging economy, job shortages, the upcoming 2012 Presidential elections – there are certainly [...]

The fall equinox was about two weeks ago (September 23); while many of us are too busy to think twice about how the planets are aligning overhead, remember that the movement of the planets isn’t [...]

Bette Calman may be in her eighties, but she is more flexible and active than my  teenage brother. Read more about this extraordinary woman here.