Ananda Balasana
Imagine. You are breathing, practicing yoga. You flow into Ananda Balasana, happy baby pose. You lie on your back with your peace fingers hooked around your… Read More »Ananda Balasana
Imagine. You are breathing, practicing yoga. You flow into Ananda Balasana, happy baby pose. You lie on your back with your peace fingers hooked around your… Read More »Ananda Balasana
Yoga (i.e. asana) is supposed to help align your body with your mind/spirit/whatever. It’s supposed to be a reflection of how you deal with the real world. Maybe you are faced with a particularly challenging pose. Do you face the challenging, sticking with it no matter how much it begins to hurt? Do you automatically choose a resting pose and fall into that? Do you try it, and then take a resting pose once you realize you need it? Do you do the same thing in your regular life?
Yesterday I offered my first yoga for educators class. My inaugural class of people who aren’t my friends. (Well, some of them are work friends, but still a little different.)Read More »Yoga for Educators
This past weekend was my first off in months after working hard for my YTT and working part-time through summer. I started gaining more balance, figuratively and physically!Read More »Protecting Balance
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
My goal is to keep my morning Sadhana going. Like, forever. Well, until I die anyway.
Trouble is, I have to be to work earlier than the average bear. Read More »Up at 5:30
This weekend was the last weekend of my yoga teacher training and yesterday was graduation. It was both fantastic and bittersweet.Read More »Week 11 YTT – The End
The past few weeks of yoga teacher training (YTT) have been challenging for me. Which is probably why I’ve delayed in writing about them.Read More »Weeks 7 & 8 YTT
We made it to the halfway point and past in yoga teacher training this week. Once it was brought to my attention, I realized that I’d come over a hump along with it.Read More »Week 6 YTT-Halfway There