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Home Yoga Practice: 6 Essential Tools
Home yoga practice is essential to developing a deep and enduring relationship with yoga. It’s your time to explore practice on your own terms and to discover what works best...
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Make an Effective Yoga Class Plan
One of the most daunting tasks when I began teaching in 1986, was coming up with a yoga class plan. I worried about sequencing. Even though I’ve never taught a...
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Western and Wellness: Can They Coexist?
Until the ACA went into effect, I didn’t have health insurance for decades. I’ve been self-employed as a yoga teacher since 1986; expensive premiums were out of my reach. For...
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Baby Backbends: Yoga’s Unsung Power Poses
You won’t see them often on Instagram. There are so many other backbends that look way more impressive. In fact, they may barely register as backbends when you look at...
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Practice Kindness for Everyone
Photo by Wonderlane I recently returned from a 19-day silent retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. In the first half of the retreat we practiced metta (kindness)...
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Women in Yoga: A Short History
Walk into almost any yoga asana class and you may notice is that the overwhelming majority of students are women. For at least some of yoga’s history, practice was the...
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Zafuko®: Soft Props & Mobile Meditation Cushions
In the spring and summer, I have the good fortune to teach a weekly mindfulness class in Salt Lake City’s beautiful Red Butte Garden. Each week, my students and I...
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Girls Inc.: Empowering Girls for More than 150 Years
At Hugger Mugger Yoga Products we are excited to partner with Girls Inc. for the next three months through our non-profit program. Through September 30th, we will donate a percentage...
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Beyond Child’s Pose: Grow Your Teaching Skill
For several years now, I’ve been hearing of a popular yoga teaching technique. I’ve heard about it directly from friends and have read it online. It’s apparently de rigueur for...
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Balancing Act: Warrior III with Yoga Blocks
Years ago, I remember a senior Iyengar teacher telling workshop participants that she’d abandoned teaching Virabhadrasana III (Warrior III Pose). “It’s just too hard for too many people,” she said....
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Support Crescent Lunge with Yoga Blocks
Most of us spend an awful lot of time sitting. Desk jobs may seem easy on the body, but in reality, all that sitting can wreak havoc on our physical...
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New to Yoga? 4 Essential Items to Bring to Class
Are you thinking about trying a yoga class? Or have you just started attending a class? In either case, the yoga props you use to assist your practice can make...