Yoga injuries happen, even to careful practitioners. We care deeply about the health and well-being of every yoga practitioner. Here are perspectives on why injuries happen and how to prevent them.
Traditional Tools for Preventing Yoga Injuries Yesterday, I wrote about the issues inherent in dropping one component of a larger system of practice into a culture with a vastly different mindset. If you’d like to catch up on this discussion, you can read the post here. Today I’d like to talk about how Western yoga might look different if we approached practice from the perspective of its original intentions. Traditionally,
Yoga Injuries II: What Happens when an Ancient Eastern Practice Meets Modern Western Sensibilities? While much of the yoga blogosphere has moved on from the yoga injury discussion of last week, the issue is still percolating for me—probably because I’ve been thinking about this a good, long while. Last week I wrote a post that posed the question of whether the root cause of the rise in yoga injuries might
The New York Times Takes on Yoga Injuries Last week’s New York Times article titled “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” made quite a splash in the yoga blogosphere. And the waves are still rippling out. Today, Cyndi Lee of OM Yoga asked her Facebook friends to share their thoughts on the article and has already amassed a huge number of comments. As a practitioner who’s just passed my 30-year