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One of the most challenging aspects of yoga practice seems to be learning how to rise above our cultural ideas about the body. It is also one of its greatest...

Our arms are our instruments of doing. We use them to accomplish almost everything we do in our daily lives. We use them to chop veggies, to type on our...

Do you ever get tired of hearing your yoga teaching “script?” I do. I’ve been teaching yoga since 1986, and sometimes it hits me that I seem to say the...

People sometimes chuckle when I tell them that sitting on a meditation cushion is physically rigorous. But it’s true. When you sit still and tune into your body for any...

My first experience with partner yoga happened early in my Iyengar training. In classes and workshops, students were often invited to pair off and help each other. For the most...

In 34 years of teaching, I can’t even begin to relate how many times I’ve heard people say that they can’t do yoga because they’re not flexible. Similarly, I wish...

What motivates you to practice yoga and/or meditation? Why go to the trouble to attend a class or two each week? We’re all busy, and yet, most of us who...

Here’s the third part in a series about yoga for insomnia. Here are Parts One and Two. Roger Cole, Ph.D. in sleep physiology and longtime Iyengar Yoga teacher, lists four...

The yoga world is full of bendy people. I’m one of them. When I first started practicing asana in 1982, it was thrilling to be involved in a physical endeavor...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the benefits of setting up a home retreat. In this post, I’d like to explore ways you can create your own retreat at...

Going away on retreat gives you time to separate from your daily cares. But you can retreat at home and make your daily life a meditation. When you retreat at...

I began yoga practice in 1982. I was, of course, much younger then. I don’t know that it ever crossed my mind that I might someday enter my 50s or...