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Deepening your practice: Pranayama
I will admit (to the dismay of some) that the physical postures of yoga came very easily to me. With a background in dance training and competitive swimming, the flexibility, balance, and strength...
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The Many Styles of Yoga
Even the most hardened gym-rats have now heard of the term “yoga.” With Lulu pants and headbands everywhere you turn, you’d have to be living under a rock not to be aware of the growing lifestyle and...
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Deepening your practice: The Yamas and Niyamas
As discussed in my earlier blogs, it is important to understand that yoga is much more than asana (physical postures). Being a Yogi or Yogini is an all-encompassing lifestyle choice, and not just...
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Boiling the Blood
In Ashtanga, we sweat a lot. Following the vinyasa system, we jump back and forth between postures and between sides. That creates a lot of heat. And then there’s the internal heat that we create with...
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Setting an Intention
Often at the beginning of a yoga class, the teacher encourages the students to set an intention for their practice. I find this to be a very helpful tool for directing my energy and for creating...
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Body not Stiff, Mind Stiff
"Body not stiff, Mind stiff" is a great quote from Guruji, or Sri K Pattabhi Jois, the founder of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. This so often exemplifies the case with Yogis today in our society. Everyone is...
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Ashtanga Yoga is not fun
Ashtanga Yoga is not fun...I practice Ashtanga yoga six days a week and teach it almost every day to many students, but I’ll repeat my title: Ashtanga Yoga is not fun. Then why do I do it and why do I...
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The Despairing Ashtangi
Ashtanga Yoga is a system of increasingly challenging sequences of asanas that are developed and mastered over time through practice. As in any endeavour that is a slow process of growth towards...
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Dilemma - Fewer Practice Days or Less Practice Everyday?
While we were studying at KPJAYI in Mysore, India, a yoga student of ours stopped coming to practice because she didn’t have enough time between attending school and working in a restaurant.read more
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Thinking of taking a Yoga Teacher Training course?
5 Good reasons to consider taking a Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) course:1. You have been practicing yoga for a very long time and believe you have learned as much as possible from taking local yoga...
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