Yoga Master Plan, Week of 5/23/16
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Every one of us has a “sixth sense.” Unfortunately, it’s nothing fancy. It’s not telepathy, or the ability to see ghosts, or anything supernatural like that. It is pretty cool, in its own way, even though most of us take it completely for granted most of the time. Our sixth sense is a “feeling” sense…
Fundamentals Practice: Growing Your Mountain
Mountains grow over the span of generations, the result of massive geological forces as the tectonic plates that cover the earth smash into each other in imperceptibly slow motion. Your Mountain Pose, on the other hand, can grow after just a few easeful poses. About Fundamentals Practices: Fundamentals practices are appropriate for all levels. They…
A Body of Truth
Yoga practice is filled with dualities, with polar limits. We start as beginners and advance towards mastery. Some of us have pelvises that are habitually held in a backward tilt, some of us in a forward tilt. Some of us are tightly-ligamented, some of us are loosely held in our joints. Some of us are…
Tadasana (Mountain Pose)
There’s a wonderful visual harmony and energy to a room full of people doing Tadasana (Mountain Pose), the classic foundational standing pose of yoga, but then, the same can be said of a parade ground of soldiers standing at attention. Both project an image of power and vitality, of conformity amongst a group, but yoga…
“Yank-and-Crank” Yoga No More!
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Self to Skin and Skin to Self
The different practices of yoga—posture, breath work, meditation—are often thrown together in a disjointed fashion. The physical and breath work can be considered as preparations for the core practice of seated meditation. One of B. K. S. Iyengar’s innovations was that the physical practice can be performed in such a way as to encompass the…