Beginning a Yoga Practice: Expectations
I try to guide my students toward awareness of the changes they feel in their bodies and in their minds as their practice progresses. That’s where change happens. The superficial – what you or other people see on the outside – is a bonus.
Integrating Yoga philosophy into your practice
Are you honest with yourself about pain or discomfort in a posture? Do you ignore or push through to potential injury? Do you have a clear sense of your body’s structural limitations and do you embrace the willingness to modify or add props to support them? Honoring the truth about your body and your pain threshold cultivates a safe, stable, honest practice.
Yoga for Men: Hips, hamstrings, back and core
Being able to touch your toes is about a common barometer and ultimate goal for back health as there has ever been. In modern postural yoga the pose that involves folding the torso over straightened legs has a name, uttanasana – from the Sanskrit for “intense stretch.”
Yoga for Fibromyalgia
Doctors who treat Fibromyalgia and who want to offer their patients something other than pharmaceuticals often agree that Yoga, specifically the kindler, gentler approach of Restorative Yoga, offers several benefits:
Yoga for East Dallas and Environs…
I’m teaching a new class at CHI Studio, on Wednesdays from 5:30-6:45pm. Ten bucks to drop in.