Yoga, Men and their Back Pain
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Category: Yoga for Emotional Health
Mind, Breath, Body in Yoga
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Yoga and Sleep
Sleep is the best medicine. (And I don't mean the medicated kind, despite the annoying pop-up ads that may find their way onto this web site. My apologies, I have no control over these ad searches but I repeat I do not advocate use of sleeping pills.) Even though we're still not quite sure what happens during the sleep state, we know when we've gotten enough sleep to feel healthy....Continue Reading: Yoga and Sleep
Yoga and Money
The most challenging yoga lessons for me have not come about from holding advanced physical poses as seen in yoga magazines and yoga DVDs. The physical world I've struggled with most is composed of bank statements, fee invoices and ideas of "credit" and "debit." A different world of stretching and balancing!
Money is a funny topic in the worlds I've lived in most of my life as an educator, artist and spiritual seeker....Continue Reading: Yoga and Money
Where Do My Emotions Go in Yoga?
There are many stereotypes about yoga practitioners, most of them silly and misconstrued. (I've stopped introducing myself as a yoga teacher at parties because I get the most inane comments about what we're supposedly capable of doing!) The one that puzzles even yoga practitioners themselves says that we shouldn't get too emotional - about anything. Like yoga and emotions just don't mix? Continue Reading: Where Do My Emotions Go in Yoga?
Sometimes I look around a yoga class I'm attending and notice how too much instruction can create the opposite effect of what we really desire- a freedom in the body. Students are straining to follow every detail of a yoga teacher's instructions as their bodies become rigid and turn into stone statues. 