You know when you’ve been to a really great class. You were moved seamlessly through warm up poses, into active invigorating poses, into a really deep peak pose and then smoothly cooled down to the final Śavāsana. You ache the next day in a satisfying, you’ve-worked-in-all-the-right-places kind of way. If you’re a yoga teacher, or […]
The gravity-defying arm balances of an advanced yogi are truly magical )and the envy of many less experienced yogi’s). There is no getting around the fact that the flexibility and strength needed to perform pincha mayurāsana (feathered peacock) or tittibhāsana (firefly) are way beyond most of us. But that does not mean that arm balances are off
The topic of warming up is a controversial one in yoga. Let’s delve in and examine the pros and cons of yoga warm ups. Is It Always Necessary to Warm up Before Yoga? The short answer is, not necessarily: different forms of yoga require different things from the body. Iyengar or Hatha yoga, for example,
Most people wouldn’t regard being a yoga teacher as a particularly taxing or harmful career. But there are pitfalls that many of us fall into as we progress and learn as yoga teachers. Teaching yoga is a very physical job. Not only is there the physical aspect of demonstrating the yoga asanas, but there can
