Blog
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Insomnia and The Restless Mind
It’s after 3:00 am. You’re wide awake, mind racing. You might be worried about paying your mortgage. You might be puzzling over something someone said to you and rehearsing your...
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Teaching Yoga for Cancer Patients
Betsy was tall, lanky and tanned. She loved to swim and take beach vacations with her family. Betsy loved a good joke, and knew how to tell them. Somehow...
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Teaching Yoga: Replenishing Your Energy
In the past two weeks the pile of unopened mail in my kitchen has grown taller and more unruly. Every so often I try to neaten its edges but I...
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Healthy Hip Joints: Develop a Skillful Yoga Practice
For decades, my sacroiliac (SI) joint was so completely, chronically out of alignment that at times I literally could not walk. I visited various therapists—a chiropractor, massage therapist and acupuncturist—for...
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Tapas Travel Mat: Take Your Practice Anywhere
Back before COVID-19 upended our lives, many of us took travel for granted. It was just part of what so many of us did in the summer, during holidays, etc....
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Why Practice Slow Flow Yoga?
Vinyasa (aka flow yoga) has been the most popular form of asana practice for a while now. Based on concepts introduced through Ashtanga Yoga, vinyasa features a yoga “routine,” a...
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Yoga Props and “Advanced Yoga”
Most of my students have been attending my classes for many years—some for decades. When a newbie comes to class, they often remark that their fellow students, the long-timers, are...
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Do You Shortchange Your Savasana?
Decades ago I attended an early morning—6:00 to 7:00 am—asana class for a few months. While I’m not a natural morning person, I attended the class because it was one...
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Savasana for the Prenatal Practice: Part Two
© Kaesie Cole Photography & Utah Prenatal Yoga In Part One, we saw how a Pranayama Bolster can support an expecting parent in a comfortable side-lying position for Savasana. For...
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Savasana for the Prenatal Practice: Part One
It seems like Savasana is one of the favorite asanas and if anyone could use a mini-nap, it’s an expecting parent who just finished up a prenatal yoga practice! However,...
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Constructive Rest: Not an Oxymoron
There’s a popular meme going around on social media. It goes something like this: “If you haven't learned a new skill in the past year, it’s not because you didn’t...
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Practice Sustainable Yoga
Earth Week is a great time to recommit to greening our lifestyles. This includes all areas of our lives—how we eat, how we travel, how we work and how we...
