Getting Started When you first start doing yoga you are very enthusiastic and want to do all of the poses as good as the person next to you. Your ego gets in the way of what the body is trying to tell you and you push yourself harder than you should. You go home and […]
September 14, 15 & 16 I and three members from the studio (Tanya, Susan and Kim) attended this workshop in Charlottetown PEI from Friday September 14th to Sunday September 16th. There were about 65 people attending the workshop. They came from all over the Maritimes and Maine. There was a wide range of skill levels and […]
I was doing my normal practice with my teacher on Wednesday morning October 3rd when I injured my right knee. I was sitting still at the time and about to enter Marichyasana A when the tear developed in my folded right knee. There was a pulling apart sensation in the medial ligament of the knee […]
At my first Ashtanga yoga workshop in February 1999 the workshop leader, Beryl Bender Birch, was asked this question and she would not answer it directly. The best answer she said is that it depends on what you want to get out of yoga and how much time you have available to dedicate to your […]
My name is Aimee White and I hail from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. I completed my BA in Political Science at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 2004, and returned home to Halifax to begin my Masters in Political Science at Dalhousie in September 2005. I am currently trying to finish my thesis […]
“Jack said it would take about 6 months for my fexibility to improve — actually I didn’t believe him at first! In the beginning you think that some of the poses are almost impossible to achieve, you think ‘how can my body ever do that?’ But he was right, it’s been 6 months and I’m just starting […]
There has been one particular posture that I have not been able to complete on my left side from the beginning of my Ashtanga practice over 9 years ago. In Ardha Baddha PadmottasanaI have not been able to grab my big toe from behind my back and fold forward. Long ago I accepted the fact […]
In “Perfect Health” Chopra explains how Ayurvedic medicine can help people acheive perfect health and bring the body to homeostasis. Ayurvedic medicine is a system of medicine that originated in India several thousand years ago. The term Ayurveda combines two Sanskrit words: ayur which means life, and veda, which means science of knowledge. Ayurveda means […]
