I am holding my lovely yoga teacher of a friend personally responsible for keeping me sane at this moment in time. I am thoroughly enjoying doing her classes and spending an hour a week deflecting negative thoughts and working on my shoulder stands. It is really helping me clear my mind of all the c ...
Fun class today. Saw some different arm balances than I have seen before. Some things to work towards. Today the class did this thing where you were supposed to help adjust the person across from you in downward dog. Since downward dog was not in the Bikram series we did not learn how to teach it no ...
Basia and I will be doing a yoga intro workshop for beginners Friday December 4. It is based on Ashtanga Yoga and is tailored for athletes and people doing weight training. However it is also suitable for any beginner. You dont need any yoga experience to attend the workshop. The workshop is based o ...
Over at the Miami Life Center website you’ll find a number of interesting talks on yoga in general and Ashtanga in particular. Most of these discussions are by Kino Macgregor with others including Tim Felman and Greg Nardi. PODCASTS -Elise
The most popular name for Yoga Ashtanga Yoga is power and this form of yoga is increasing in popularity every day. So if you have not found this type of yoga is, however, read on. In essence, the Ashtanga Yoga refers to a style of yoga that is often used by athletes and anyone who needs to become st ...
Ashtanga (also spelled Astanga) means “ eight limbs” in Sanskrit, which refers to the eight limbs of yoga laid out in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Ashtanga Yoga was developed by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Ashtanga Yoga revolves in Pattanjali’s idea that the path of purification is composed of eight limb ...
In simple words, the yoga postures are various positions of our body. But these postures or Yoga Asanas are not merely the position given to our body. In addition of provide good exercise to our physical self, the body, yoga postures provide us with opportunities to create or it is an attempt synthe ...
Today’s class was great. The instructor seemed to explain things in more detail this time and assisted people deeper into the poses. I learned that my hands can go higher when I do reverse Namaste. Also, I’m not sure how many times I’ve heard this, but it finally clicked today, that when stretching ...
