Today's practice is about creating mindfulness in relationships - in my experience that always starts with relationship to self and, today, relationship to practices. How do we respond when some days we're more flexible, and some days we're just not feeling it? Isn't it interesting how the poses...
In last week’s episode I shared how to approach your practice as a place of refuge.
Today I share how to move from that refuge into the year ahead. To hear the still, quiet voice of intuition that always knows your next right step.
Modern technology is part of "the distraction...
In last week’s episode I shared how to practice yoga as a moving meditation. How to maintain awareness of breath and bandhas while flowing through postures. In today's practice you can let all that go.
It's important to be able to engage in postures AND it's important to be able to rest...
In today's episode I share one of my favorite threads of the Yoga Sutra. Pratipaksha Bhavana: “When negativity arises, cultivate the opposite” or “mindfulness of opposites.”
Opposites are the core of everything I teach in yoga. Postures are either active or passive....
In today's episode I discuss ways to release tension in the back and strengthen the back. This is a commonly UNDER trained area for many yoga students, and a commonly under emphasized aspect of yoga practice. Yoga tends to OVER emphasize pushing movements like Chaturanga and updog - which are...
Have you ever been burned out, irritable, felt inflammation, heartburn or had rashes on your skin? Or have you ever felt quick to anger, frustration, irritability or annoyance? These are signs of excess heat in the body - what is known in Ayurveda as Pitta Dosha.
Today begins Season 7 of the...
Want to, learn everything I have to teach about yoga? Styles, postures, breath work, mudras, mantras, philosophy, history, anatomy, yoga business -all of it is in the Quietmind Yoga Teacher Training. Doors open 9/9/19 and you check it out at http://www.quietmind.yoga/ytt - if you're listening to...
Fascia is a band or sheet of connective tissue, primarily collagen, beneath the skin that attaches, stabilizes, encloses and separates muscles and other internal organs.
One way to think of the fascia is like scaffolding in the body. It has a relative strength of steel, yet is...
In the yoga tradition, there are five directions energy can move.
When the movement of energy up and out is dominant, this can create a vata (air element) imbalance.
This manifests as anxiety, fear, restlessness, worry, doubt. Also physically as digestive issues, cold limbs, and...
