Ready to start your personalized home yoga practice? If you’ve followed the three steps below, then you are well on your way! Sold on the many reasons to have a daily practice – check. Created the perfect spot to practice – check. Got the necessary props, equipment, and gear – …
Once you convince yourself to be bold enough to try out yoga, sticking with it can be challenging when it seems hard to keep up, or when progress seems elusive. A group class can be overwhelming: Does everyone else actually know what this teacher is saying? Am I the only …
After committing to 108 days of yoga, I am sold on the benefits of a daily yoga asana + pranayama + meditation practice. But I don’t eat, breathe, sleep yoga 24/7. In fact, I have found a few things outside the world of yoga that are actually my go-to shortcuts …
Why do you yoga? Fitness and flexibility? Stress management? Dealing with chronic pain? Insomnia? Self care? Reconnecting with yourself, or perhaps with your Self? Herein lies the beauty of yoga. It is versatile enough to meet all these needs. Because the yoga tradition was developed to help every individual holistically. Individually. …
The huge collection of asana (postures), pranayama (breathing exercises), and dharana (meditation) practices and styles have all evolved out of a need for each of us to find our unique, “just right,” Goldilocks version of personalized yoga that really takes into account our multifaceted selves. When reflecting on what and …
Don’t we all step onto the mat at least once, if not often, with visions of ourselves mirroring the beautifully symmetrical, graceful, perhaps even acrobatic, feats of flexibility we see in photographs? In fact, many of us were lured to yoga in the first place with grand promises, or at …
With more than 1,100 teachers in just the South Puget Sound area alone registered with Yoga Alliance (and no doubt many more teaching who are not in the YA directory), where does one begin to figure out which teacher to choose? Not all yoga teachers are created equal. Connecting with the …
So Much Yoga, So Little Time: Which Style is Your Yoga? Yoga evolves throughout the years. At this point, I can think of a dozen styles that are available to choose. So how do you know which style is for you? Experience has taught me that the answer is probably: …
