“There is no point in me working on this pose anymore” thinks Alice. “No matter how hard I try I am not making any progress. I am not getting any benefit from it. ” Alice is suffering from the Sour Grape trap. Aesop wrote about Sour Grapes a long time ago in his story about […]
Bob’s hands are almost there. They are so close he can almost feel his fingers touching. Bob is working on holding his hands behind his back in Marichyasana C. Bob has been working towards this goal for a long time. His teacher comes up behind him. She reaches down and helps Bob’s shoulders to come […]
The butterfly moves gracefully from flower to flower, taking a sip of nectar from each. The butterfly’s colourful wings move back and forth through a very large range of motion as it floats on the air. Alice watches the butterfly and realizes how much her shoulders have become like the butterfly’s wings. Not nearly as […]
Alice’s teacher is watching Alice working on binding in Marichyasana A. Her hands are almost touching behind her back. “Alice you will have more success with binding if you use the rolling pin factor to work with your Edge.” Her teacher tells her. Alice looks at her teacher with a puzzled look. “Watch a rolling […]
Bob massaged his aching lower back. It has been getting sore a lot lately the more that he works on his computer. Bob, like a lot of other people, sit at their desk hunched over their computers all day long. He is suffering from the computer hunch. What is the computer hunch The computer hunch […]
Bob’s face is turning red. He is holding his breath as he struggles to bind in the twisting yoga pose. He has gone way beyond his edge. “Bob, you have to back off a little bit or you are going to hurt yourself!” says his yoga teacher. “You are following the Wind’s plan when you […]
“Boy! Are they ever tall!” thought Alice as she gazed out of the dome car of the train as it approached the Rocky Mountains. This is Alice’s first time seeing the Rocky Mountians. Now she understands her yoga teacher even better when they said to stand tall like a mountain in Tadasana. What is Tadasana […]
The old treasure map shows the way to the island but it shows nothing of the surrounding area. Once you go beyond the edge of the map you are in unknown territory. Your yoga pose is like that old map. If you stay in the known territory you are safe. If you go beyond the […]
“The last time I tried Paschimottanasana I pulled my hamstrings and it took a couple of weeks for them to heal.” thought Alice “I hope this new technique works.” Alice inhales and lifts her torso slightly. Exhaling she lowers her torso again. With each breath she takes Alice is moving away from and towards her […]
“Yes, I can go on Wednesday night instead of Tuesday.” Sally responded. Alice was relieved. Her previous practice buddy was not as flexible in her availability as Sally is. Alice’s relationship with Sally, her new Practice Buddy, has been great. She used the Two Pots Principle from Aesop’s fables to help her avoid the most […]
