When I first started yoga I wanted to be an advanced practitioner quickly. I was young, strong and I wanted my body to be able to do all the things I saw others do. I saw yoga as a competition, and I wanted to be the best. It took a long time and a lot…
This week is the same as most weeks in which we continue the difficult, not always fun, work on getting to our best selves. To say that yoga is going to “change your life” is overstating a truth. Yoga is a noun. It is a concept, a discipline, a practice: one often misunderstood and misused….
This is one of the most asked questions I get in classes: “What is the difference between these poses?” My answer is never a short one. It always involves a full stop of class to demonstrate the major and important differences between them. To start, I rarely EVER teach Upward Facing Dog to new students…
This topic comes up every class. We are dealing with changing our bodies so how could it not come up? In fact, whenever we try and change something, there will always be some amount of pain. A Chinese proverb says, “you can’t heal pain without more pain”. We have to be willing to face it…
When I was a beginner student, I was told to cultivate my practice at home. So, like any earnest student, I went home and cleared a space in my very small apartment. I remember specially working on my inversions at the time. “Go home and fall!”, he told me. I fell over and over again….
