Think Back To Your First Few Months Doing Yoga, And One Day Your Instructor Said That Particular Class Will Be About Headstands. Did You Feel Scared To Be Upside Down On Your Head? Did You Wonder Why, When It Seemed So Simple And Easy When You Were A Kid? Well, It’s Actually Because You Are […]
New research is bringing yoga one step closer to becoming a medically recommended treatment for depression. Findings show that yoga practice can help reduce symptoms of the condition, which is one of the most common mental health disorders in the United States and worldwide, with around 16.1 million American adults alone experiencing at least one
Lotus pose. The holy grail of ãsana. In so many Instagram pictures and usually showcased on the mat next to you during class. But will you get there one day? Maybe, maybe not… I Have a Dream Think back to when you started yoga. Which poses did you really want to be able to do? What
All teachers have their own strengths, their own vocabulary and their own ways of creating sequences — and so will students. Lots of people will ‘shop around’ with different yoga classes in the same way we would do when purchasing an expensive item — we want to find a teacher who will help us grow,
We’ve had naked yoga, yoga with goats, paddleboard yoga and now there’s dog yoga – or ‘doga’ for short. Doga was invented in 2012 by the Swiss-Iranian yoga teacher Mahny Djahanguiri. An avid animal-lover, who discovered yoga in 1999, she credits doga with bringing stress-relief to both owner and pet. “Doga is a human yoga
If you google yoga and YouTube, at the very top of search results will be ‘Yoga with Adriene‘. The host of this channel is Adriene Mishler, who hails from Austin, Texas. She started posting online yoga tutorials onto YouTube back in 2012, and now has four million subscribers and hundreds of thousands of viewers who
The art of sequencing your yoga classes is to make them work for both your students and you, the teacher. As yoga teachers we give of ourselves, and often those that are drawn to teaching yoga are those who naturally want to share and help others. However, this can come at a cost to your
Every yogi knows how delicious it is to truly relax in śavāsana – that wonderful sensation of calm and serenity as you gently emerge from your mat to engage with the rest of your day. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to capture that sensation at other times of the day? Don’t you just want
Kevin Flee is the founder of @diaryofachubbyyogi a warts-and-all, often hilarious, Instagram account charting his yoga practice. This YogaLondon graduate is also a yoga philosophy junkie, rock and roll musician and loves to diffuse the tension in a yoga class by talking about bums and bits – it works every time. 1. What brought you
Jackie Ngu (EMBA) has her fingers in many pies. She has an Executive MBA in Business, she’s a qualified Yoga Trapeze teacher, Vinyasa yoga teacher, life coach and Volunteer Mentor and coach for entrepreneurial women in developing countries. She is also deeply optimistic about the power of women supporting women. 1. When did you start practising
