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 […]
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 […]
Bob has been watching a lot of TV lately. The Curling Finals are on and he has not been paying attention to his posture while he watches. He has been letting his back round and his chest drop down towards his hips. Not only is it poor posture his lower back is starting to […]
Rupert, the green English Budgie glides across the room. He lifts his ribs, brings his hips forward and lands gently on the branch. Alice noticed that Rupert landed the same way that her yoga teacher wants her to move into so many yoga poses, lead with her hips. Just the other day he was admonishing […]
Bob sees a Black Bear across the meadow. It appears to be searching for something. The bear rears up on its hind legs and takes a step backwards. Bob is relieved that the bear is not coming any closer to him. The bear presses his back against the tree and starts moving up and down. […]
3, 2, 1, Ignition! A single pillar of white hot flame lances down against the launch pad as the Soyuz rocket lifts off with the new crew for the International Space Station. But what does a rocket launch have to do with Dandasana? Your torso may look like a rocket when you are in Dandasana, […]
The Penguins left winger cut across the ice from the left wing and shot the puck toward the far top corner of the net. The Montreal goalie moved to block it. The Penguins centre waiting in front of the net deflected it. The puck rang off of the goal post. Goalies love their goal posts. […]
