Partnering Yoga
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Category: Yoga and Community
Fast Walking & Breathing
The weather has been perfect for long fast-walking, I mean like 4-5 miles in less than an hour!
Although I've never been a jogger, I can outwalk most of my runner friends. Even before my years of doing standing warrior poses, I always had amazingly strong legs. And, I've been feeling a need to build endurance into my physical movements and this is by far the most beautiful way to do it...Continue Reading: Fast Walking & Breathing
Yoga Videos
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Yoga and the World
How can we just sit in lotus position when there’s several wars raging right now in the world, our nation is on “high alert” again, we’re gobbling oil faster than we’ll ever be able to replenish it and women and children’s lives are still at greatest danger in their own homes?
In the past 6 years of my graduate studies in San Francisco I have met many amazing individuals who have inspired many others in a...
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Is Yoga Controversial?
Yoga has been accused of many things like being called a religion, dangerous, fake, not for women, just for fit people, all about sex, all about going off to live in a cave, developing magical powers, astral traveling, worshipping symbols and statues…. I could go on.
I suppose the most fearful concerns are connected with the chanting and use of Sanskrit names which some think makes it Hinduism. It’s not. Continue Reading: Is Yoga Controversial?
Doing yoga in a class setting requires an ability to both enjoy the group energy (laughing together, encouraging each other) and enjoy being alone (close your eyes, place your yoga mat with enough space around you). 