How to use a little lizard to improve your hip flexibility
Lizard pose focuses on increasing the flexibility in your hips while at the same time protecting your knees from injury.
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How to use the 3 parts of your Edge to improve your yoga experience
Your Edge is an important component of your yoga practice. Finding and working with your Edge helps you improve your yoga practice. At the same time you avoid injuring yourself. Your Edge is that comfortable yet challenging place in a yoga pose. There can be more than one Edge in an individual yoga pose. Usually […]
How to avoid the Mom impact – clean up after yoga class
I can’t remember how many times Mom came into my room and said “This place is a pig sty. You can’t go out and play until your room is clean and tidy.” Mom had a major impact on my plans for the day. And there I was stuck inside on a beautiful warm sunny day. […]
Why making a mountain out of a molehill is best for your yoga practice
Alice is visiting a friend of her’s farm in Wales. As she walks through one of the fields with the family they flattened all the molehills as they came to them. The kids had a lot of fun making the molehills go away. A mountain is much larger than a molehill and flattening it is […]
How to manage Peacock Envy in your yoga practice
Bob looks with envy at Alice as she works on one of her yoga poses. He has always wanted to be able to do that pose as well as Alice does it. Bob does many yoga poses with ease but he has always wanted to be able to do more. Bob is suffering from the […]
Why your teacher adjusts you in a yoga pose
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 […]
How to cure your computer hunch with Dandasana
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 […]
Why you should follow the Sun’s approach to achieve your yoga goals safely
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 […]
How to find the Edge of your yoga World
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 […]
How to use your Edge and improve Paschimottanasana
“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 […]
