Why Listening to Your Body Might Not Be Enough If you practice yoga, you’ve probably heard the entreaty, “Listen to your body.” It’s good, sound advice. When you embark on any physical practice, it’s important...
Hasta Mudra: Open Your Breathing Space For the first time since last fall, I’m sitting next to an open window as I write. The spring air, with its occasional hints of blooming...
Bridge Pose: Setu Bandha Sarvangasana I’ve been writing for Hugger Mugger’s blog for 14 years—hard to believe. And it’s equally hard to believe that in all these years, spanning more than...
How Do You Find a Yoga Mentor? Until the 20th century, yoga—the whole system—was always taught one on one. An aspiring yogi studied with their yoga mentor often for decades. Over the years,...
Foot Yoga for a Fine Foundation I can’t claim to have made healthy choices in all areas of my life throughout my history on the planet. But I can claim relative intelligence...
Body Scan: Mindfulness of the Body A while back, I wrote a post on mindfulness of the body, centering the practice on breath awareness. In the Theravada tradition, breath awareness is the...
Standard Yoga Bolsters 3 Ways Most of us would probably agree that our lives are filled to the brim. When we’re super busy, what often drops off our schedule are the...
Perfect Support: Slanted Yoga Bolsters Whenever I ask my students to go get a Yoga Bolster, the happiness in the room is palpable. They know that yoga bolsters mean they’re going...
Yoga Cues: Simple and Effective My original yoga “parentage” was in the Iyengar system. Known for its precision, and for inventing the yoga props we use today, the Iyengar system provides...
Yoga Bolster Love: 2 Easeful Forward Bends Forward bends are some of yoga’s most common, and iconic, poses. You can practice forward bends from standing, sitting or even lying down. Forward bends promote...
Advanced Yogi: It’s Not What You Think Some years ago, I led some yoga students through a rather lengthy series of leg-stretching asanas based on Supta Padanghustasana (Supine Big Toe Pose). At that...
SI Joint Reset: Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose Several years ago, as part of a teacher training I was co-teaching, I demonstrated the problems with squaring your hips in wide-legged standing poses to the...
Join Us in Supporting Veterans Yoga Project Hugger Mugger was established in 1986 to help people in their practice of yoga. 38 years later, we still maintain the philosophy that it is important...
SI Joint Health: Part 4 Who doesn’t love a good spinal twist? For most people, rotating the spine feels refreshing. With the exception of twisting to the right to look behind...
6 Yoga Poses for Dead Butt Syndrome The tech age has brought with it several well-known maladies. I wrote about Text Neck and Text Claw way back in 2015. But I found out...
Bolster Your Bridge Pose Sometimes it can be a struggle to step onto your yoga mat. This is especially true if you practice in the evening. After a challenging day,...