Talasana (Palm Tree Pose)

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Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga provide a scaffolding for the comprehensive practice of yoga. As the third and fourth of Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga, asana...

Talasana (Palm Tree Pose) is a variant of Tadasana (Mountain Pose), the basic standing pose upon which all other poses are built, at least according to...

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Some say that sitting is the new smoking. I’m not sure I’d go so far as to make this claim, but as a person with a...

We’ve all seen it. Chances are if you’ve done it, maybe a whole lot. That is, you bend your head forward to text, surf, shop, socialize,...

In spring and summer, my students make a whole lot of requests for low back and mid-back relieving poses. When I ask them why they’re needing...

Most of us spend our days sitting in front of a computer. In the process our shoulders hunch forward, our legs get sluggish and our minds...