My hamstrings have been tight all my life. When I first started doing yoga in my twenties I could not touch my toes. I never thought I would get to the point where I might see my head near my knee. Well, I was doing a standing forward fold last night before bedtime. I don’t [...]
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I’m obviously not a Bikram gal. It’s been in the 90s here this past week and I have no air conditioning. Why? Because normally the weather is a lovely, balmy 70s during the summer in my part of town. But it’s been getting hotter lately (global warming?)…too hot. Some nights it’s stayed in the 80s [...]
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I’ve just started learning the Bikram series at home. Living in Los Angeles, I’d actually love to experience the bombastic personality Bikram in person (his school is a short drive away), but I can’t. Hot yoga is counterindicated for my chronic fatigue syndrome.
(CFS sufferers have a tendency towards orthostatic hypotension, which means we have [...]
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OK…first off, I take absolutely NO RESPONSIBILITY for your use of the following method. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
As I’ve stated in an earlier blog post on Bikram, I just can’t see how I’d enjoy an overheated room while doing yoga. I’ve been taking some classes in 90 degree weather recently and I found [...]
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I am starting my yoga teacher training tomorrow, and physically I am soooo not ready. I caught that nasty cold that’s been going around, and my yoga practice in the last week and a half has been practically zilch. I’ll be aching at the end of the weekend. Well, at least the training will force [...]
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Took a class at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center last night. I guess Sivananda Yoga is not considered trendy or flashy these days, being “classical yoga” and all that, but still, I wonder why more people don’t take the classes there. With a $35/year membership, drop-in classes are only $10. This is insanely cheap for [...]
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Sometimes we can get spoiled in Los Angeles, seeing as it’s the American hub of yoga. We’ve got the best yoga teachers and the best yoga studios in the country. I’ve already studied with Shiva Rea; last night I ventured bravely out to Hollywood for a Full Moon Yoga class with Gurmukh at Golden Bridge. [...]
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My chronic fatigue was acting up earlier this week. I had been exercising heavily (a lot of swimming, etc.) and had not been eating well. Tuesday night I went to a green networking event that included the worst tofu “sushi” ever created in the history of man. But since they had promised lots of yummy [...]
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I went to the Yoga Groove Night at Your Neighborhood Studio (YNS) in Culver City (Los Angeles) Saturday night. It consisted of a one-hour yoga class, one hour of getting your groove on (dancing), and a cool down/meditation.
Denise, owner of YNS, ran the yoga class…she was a little tough there on the lengthy downward [...]
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I haven’t been practicing yoga consistently at all lately (bad girl!). In the least, I was doing seated forward bend every night before going to bed almost every night for a while…I have very tight hamstrings. But I stopped that about a month ago, at least. So last night I decided to do just a [...]
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