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Love Your Stretch Receptors
Love Your Stretch Receptors By Kristine Kaoverii Weber | August 11, 2023 COMMENTSBreathing is really complicated – one of those topics where the more I study it, the bigger it seems to get. Today I want to share just a little something about a critical part of the...
Yoga for Nobody
Inheriting an “old lady yoga studio” IMHO, is probably the best thing ever for an aspiring studio owner. It’s amazing to have wise older women populating your space! From there, you have an opportunity to experiment, try new things, slowly build up other followings,
Why Do They Leave?
She showed up for a few classes. She was tall and thin with short, neat, graying hair, simple black framed glasses, and an athletic body. However she didn’t last long, after just a few weeks she dropped out. I’ll admit I felt deflated.
A More Functional Version of Triangle
lateral bends can be very function for supporting the myofascia (musculature + fascia) of breathing, and thereby support the health and function of the respiratory system – that’s functional!
If your yoga teaching is not functional to begin with…
If your yoga practice isn’t functional to begin with, what have you been doing to yourself? and, for teachers, what have you been teaching others? Have the past 3 decades of yoga in the west been such a dysfunctional mess that now the consensus is that a new style of asana practice must be developed to counter the effects? In order to rectify the problems created by ignoring biomechanics and individual differences for so long?
Wrestling with the Baptist Preacher…and myself
Anger can be an important catalyst – it fuels activism which then can initiate necessarily cultural changes. Change won’t happen if someone doesn’t say something.
Yoga Poses Aren’t Your Problem
Today I’m going to write a little bit about one of the kleshas, asmitā, often translated as “egotism.” But I think I’ll first set it up with an anecdote. When I started teaching at the Y way back when, I had a couple who came to class ready to rumble. They tied their bandanas tight, slid their mats up close, sat down and glared, daring me to kick their asana.
Yoga Teachers and Chronic Pain Education
As the population ages and we see upticks in chronic health conditions, I believe we are going to need an increasing number of well-trained yoga teachers and therapists to cross the bridge from fitness to wellness and therapeutics.
A Wandering Mind is Not always Unhappy
Rather than being the ultimate path to happiness, extreme focus can actually end up decreasing our capacity for self-regulation, impulse control, and decision making.
The Myth of 10,000… Times Two
The 10,000 steps thing is not based in science – rather the idea was masterminded and promoted by a Japanese company almost 60 years ago.
