I had a lot of yoga classes to teach over the weekend and had two instances of class members “doing their own thing” in yoga class. These are people who, no matter how much you direct the class, decide to do something completely different. I’ve been a student in a class where someone was moving [...]
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I’ve been watching the Biggest Loser (yes, yes, it’s a reality show, but it is very interesting to watch people’s struggles with weight loss). They have been teaching the contestants yoga as part of their training. So in this week’s episode, the contestants had a challenge where they had to run up and down a [...]
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Today is the start of a massive worldwide “sadhana” or daily spiritual practice aimed at helping us transition to the Aquarian Age. The meditation was given to us by Yogi Bhajan, and it is now being shared by the kundalini yoga community. The suggested meditation is daily for 11 minutes for the next 1,000 days [...]
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I can do a headstand just fine but I’m always terrified of falling over backwards, so I usually cheat and position myself near a wall. Part of this is due to my tight hamstring issue – I can’t walk my feet up close to my body and lift myself up, I have to “jump” up [...]
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