Bikram yoga studios sponsor 30 day challenges 3 or 4 times a year. You sign up and keep track by putting stars next to your name. The object is to attend thirty classes in thirty days. If you miss a day, then you need to “do a double” and attend two classes in one day. . . . → Read More: 30 Day Challenges
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….. by Claire Dederer is a memoir exquisitely told through one woman’s life long trek through many yoga teachers and studios. Who would think for a minute that the positions we contort ourselves into in the yoga studio, would parallel what we experience in our daily lives enough to communicate a life story? Before . . . → Read More: Poser: My Life In 23 Yoga Poses… This morning, putting on my makeup, I noticed I was standing with all my weight on my right leg, knee totally locked. Yesterday in the grocery store I was standing in line with perfect posture and looked down to see my “feet together, toes and heels touching. At the table I found myself sitting with . . . → Read More: Lock Your Knees- 16 Weeks Later.. Pranayama breathing (which means standing deep breathing) is how we begin each yoga class. Interlace your ten fingers and glue them to your throat. Now inhale through your nose while bringing your elbows up beside your ears, to a count of six. Next exhale through your mouth while lowering your elbows and using your interlaced . . . → Read More: Life & Breath Today I read an interesting story in my daily meditation book, The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo. (I highly recommend this book for your spiritual endeavors for 2011) An old Hindu master grew tired of his apprentice complaining so he gave him a glass of water and a handful of salt and told him . . . → Read More: Salt (not the movie) “I’m takin the hardest way” is a lyric from a favorite song, Bikram writes “The right way is the hard way” and we say a hundred times “Can’t anything ever be easy?”. I think I see a connection here. What is right, true, and worthy of our trust, is hard, and takes daily work. . . . → Read More: The Hardest Way Today I was all set to skip yoga due to the huge snowstorm. When it was time to go, it was 38 degrees, raining, with wet roads and there really was no reason to skip class. Off I went and I’m glad I did, because when I woke up and slid the curtain on the . . . → Read More: Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Thinking Today in yoga class, my instructor commented that I was so focused she couldn’t get me to move during the poses at all. She said I could stay in them all day and I must have gotten all that patience from teaching Pre-schoolers. Then after class, someone said to me, “Wow, you must have mastered . . . → Read More: “Franticness” in Life & Yoga At the end of our yoga class, our instructor always encourages us to lie still in sivasana for at 5 minutes. She says it’s so important to give yourself this time. She also said something yesterday that’s really been making me think. She said if you ever got to hear Bikram speak, he’d tell you . . . → Read More: Me Killing Time..or Time Killing Me? Today in yoga, my body surprised me yet again. It’s been a few weeks since I have seen any improvement in any poses. (this could have to do with all the breathing focus going on lately) In fact, I’m sure it does because yesterday and today were the first two days in awhile that I . . . → Read More: Moving Forward!!!! |
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