Teaching yoga for over 30 years, I am always happy to discover something that I have overlooked in how to convey movement (sometimes very abstract movement) to my students so that they get it! We all get stuck sometimes. Teachers can get stuck…
If your social circles include yoga teachers and students, then surely you know about and are a possible constituent of the Texas-sized uproar over a recent piece in the New York Times Magazine by William J. Broad. The five-page, single-spaced printed…
I once got a dream job thanks to the latissimus dorsi muscle. I kid you not. It happened during a beginner inversions class that opened with the mechanics of downward facing dog and ended with a fun, partnered half-handstand at the…
On day 3 of YTU Level 1 yoga teacher training, Jill took us through a shoulder sequence which culminated in Downward Facing Dog. It took 2 hours. I ran the following emotional gamut: mild amusement, boredom, impatience, seriously? don’t we get…
Not everyone should attempt inversions, but if done correctly, the health and stress relieving benefits are astounding. This post looks at those benefits as well as some of the various inverted poses such as plow, headstand, and shoulder stand.
