Felicia Tomasko reminds us to always try and see the healthy instead of living on the auto pilot of the familiar. …
Meditation
Some teachers and students are concerned that using the glutes will make the knees splay too far apart. This is a legitimate concern, but it's easily managed. All you have to do in this situation is co-contract the muscles…
We get entrained by those around us. You become a different person if you hang out in a bar versus satsanga with people studying and practicing to be their best selves. It's sort of like 'you are what you…
In this week's Overheard in Yoga Class, Darren Rhodes explains that your practice can alleviate some of life's pokes and prods. …
Duhkha is almost always translated as suffering and something to avoid. But it’s more like uneasiness, or discomfort. Duhkha is not something that we can really get rid of, it’s something that resides within us, always. Even when you’re…
In this week's Overheard in Yoga Class, Elena Brower reminds us that whenever we doubt our ourselves or others, our practice has the power to shift out energy. …
A strong, healthy core supports the spine, facilitates skillfull movement, and makes yoga postures more efficient.…
Kirtan is a call-and-response style of mantra chanting, which makes it even more audience-participatory than other styles of music. …
In this week's Overheard in Yoga Class, David Harshada Wagner explains that like the physical body, our psychic and subtle emotional layers of our being have an innate healing power. …