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What’s the Best Yoga Mat for Balancing?
One of yoga practice’s great gifts is its emphasis on balancing. Poses such as Vrksasana (Tree Pose) are an integral part of almost every form of practice. The ability...
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Foot Yoga: Tap into the Power of Your Own Two Feet
I recently published a blog on the 6 Elements of Balancing. First on the list of the balancing essentials is healthy, stable and sensitive feet. In this post, I'll introduce...
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6 Elements of Good Balance
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), falls are the leading cause of injury or injury-related death in older adults in the United States. There are many reasons that...
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Cell Phones in Yoga Class?
A few years ago there was yoga culture controversy over a teacher who was fired from a corporate yoga class for discouraging cell phones in yoga class. Hired by the...
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Breathe Easy: Camel Pose with Yoga Blocks
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on how to prepare your body for Camel Pose (Ustrasana). Camel Pose is a challenging backbend. It stretches the entire front body,...
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Stonehenge: Back Pain Relief
Savasana (Relaxation Pose) is a welcome respite, the well-deserved dessert after your asana practice. It’s a time of rest and integration, the time when you get to lie still and...
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Breathe Easy with Hakini Mudra
There’s power in your hands, more than you might think. I was first exposed to hand mudras during iRest (Yoga Nidra) training with Richard Miller, PhD, decades ago. While I...
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Align Your Spine with a Yoga Block
Prasarita Padottanasana (Wide-Legged Standing Forward Bend Pose) is one of yoga’s more relaxing standing poses. Its symmetrical shape keeps your pelvis, sacroiliac joint and spine neutral, while the active rooting...
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Breathe Calm: A Simple Mindfulness Practice
We’ve all seen idealized images of meditation. Perhaps it’s a young woman on a deserted beach, hands in a meditation-friendly mudra, enjoying a sunset. Or maybe it’s an image like...
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Open Your Shoulders with a Yoga Strap
Gomukhasana (Cow Face Pose) is a staple in my morning yoga classes. Years ago, several of my students made up unflattering names for it—Cow Pie, Mad Cow, etc.—because it was...
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Navasana: Modify Your Boat Pose
A strong core is essential to so many aspects of our daily lives. Tending to our core muscles—the abdominals and back muscles—is core (so to speak) to our yoga asana...
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Supta Ardha Padmasana: A Lotus for Every Body
In 2001, I co-taught a teacher training with Donna Farhi in Vancouver, BC. The 50 attendees were experienced yoga teachers and body workers from all over the world. During the...
