Being Powerful in Yoga without a Handstand to show on Instagram
Learn others ways to feel powerful in your practice in lieu of inversions.
Learn others ways to feel powerful in your practice in lieu of inversions.
Jen is now in Texas and wants to share some thoughts about the south with you!
The philosophy and ethic codes and guidelines of practicing yoga are described within the yamas and niyamas. The yamas describe how to behave with yourself and others and are sectionalized in five different compartments: Ahimsa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, and Aparigraha. Ahimsa, is the practice of nonviolence in thought, word or deed. This is one of…
Try this fun and upbeat 2 minute practice to start out your day, or maybe, take a break from sitting at that desk!
For two weeks, I practiced ratio breathing with the idea of getting up to 2:1, creating longer holds on the inhalations than holds on the exhalations to create an energizing pranayama practice preferably in the beginning of the day.
There are usually three different ways a new student learns yoga: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Each student is going to learn yoga in a different and unique ratio of these three areas. Heck, they might even call memory recall and dreaming as another form of visual learning because that is what I remember during my…
I can’t believe how far we have gotten since this image was taken in 2014. Really looking forward to posting new media on our progress soon. I’m also basing new flyers now too! There are a few workshops coming up that I’m hoping to check out. As Phattahbi Jois said “Practice and all is coming”,…
Starting in 2015, I’ll be entering into a Master of Science in Yoga Therapy program at Maryland University of Integrative Health (formerly Tai Sophia). Check them out here: www.muih.edu Over the next two years (and the rest of my life), I will be learning more in depth about yoga and it’s uses in therapy along with…
October 9, 2014 is the official two year mark of my yoga teaching career. Taking a break from my normal schedule of fitness training, reading books and articles, watching anime, teaching yoga, and any other pursuits my heart desires, I thought it would be a good idea to reflect upon the path I have chosen. When we…
The following is from a post I made in my previous blog on June 26, 2012, in the midst of my 200 hour yoga teacher training. It’s interesting to see the difference in just two years. At the end of the entry, I talk about “turning off the distractions”. This is one of the main…