Category: Yoga

Holding on as a habit First, there is emotional familiarity. This can be compared to physical pain. It hurts to change a position that you[more...]

Back bending requires a thorough warm-up to help you enter the Pose safely and to help you deepen it with every hold. Your warm-up should[more...]

Yoga, as we think of it today, and Yoga, as an ancient practice, are vastly different things. When we talk about the history of Yoga,[more...]

Freedom, majestic, wow. These are the words that accompany a photo of a yogi in a Standing Backbend. Reaching toward the ground from where we[more...]

Monday (February 29) is Leap Day, a day that only comes around every four years and is worth acknowledging. Women were allowed to ask men[more...]

At first glance, Bridge Pose doesn't seem very elaborate, but when you get down to it, it is one of those rich postures filled with[more...]

Dhanurasana, or Bow Pose, resembles an archer's bow: the arms are the string linking the torso and legs into a bow. Like an archer's bow,[more...]

Being a yoga teacher is exciting, fun, and deeply rewarding. It is not, however, always a relaxing experience. Our students come to yoga to unwind[more...]

Get ready, hamstrings and hips; this one's for you! Compass Pose, or Parivrtta Surya Yantrasana, is a gorgeous reminder of how yogaone us chart our[more...]

I remember my first yoga class. It was held in a small room at a local YMCA. The teacher was pretty buff. She looked like[more...]