Past News letter articles
To chew gum or not to chew gum that is the question The other day Bob one of our students, asked me if it was okay to chew gum during a yoga class. He noticed that one of the other students in the class was chewing gum. He found it quite distracting. The snapping and […]
I was reading a recent copy of the yoga journal and they had an article about yoga etiquette. They had 10 etiquette rules for your yoga practice. Since I had written many articles about yoga etiquette in the past, I was interested to see if they had any new etiquette rules that I had not […]
Finally the pregnancy is over. You are home with your baby and the pregnancy is behind you. It’s a great time to share with your baby and to start to learn and grow together and build that special bond. Along with this time of growth and sharing it would be nice to be able to […]
This year we decided to have a double Karma class for the Winter Solstice. It was only much later that we discovered that there was also a double astronomical event on that day as well. There was a lunar eclipse as well as the winter solstice on 21 December. We had a Kripalu yoga class […]
Double-Double is not refering to Tim Horton’s favourite beverage with double cream and double sugar rather it is referring to the two astronomical events that are happening on December 21. This year for the first time in 428 years there will be two astronomical events on Tuesday Dec 21. There will be a lunar eclipse […]
Here I am it is my first time in New York City. I step out of the front door of the hotel and I am blown away. There are people every where! People are rushing towards me and they are rushing past me! The sidewalks are so wide and so full of people. The sounds! […]
For the past six years we have closed the studio for Remembrance Day. On Tuesday, Sarah MacKeigan, one of our teachers, said we should try and do something more for Remembrance Day. So, we tossed around a few ideas via email and we settled on an idea. We would do a special Karma class on […]
Upward Facing Dog – Urdhva Mukha Shvanasana In the previous position your exhaled and jumped your feet back and lowered down to the floor. In this position, which is a strong back bend, you inhale lift the shoulders up towards the ceiling straighten your arms, leaving your hips near the floor the top of your […]
This is the beginning of a series of articles covering the two Sun Salutes that you do in the Ashtanga yoga practice. Sun Salute A and Sun Salute B are done at the start of every Ashtanga Yoga practice. The articles were written with the person new to yoga in mind. I have attempted to […]
Alice, who is just starting to practice yoga, asked me the other day “Why do we do so many Sun Salutes in an Ashtanga yoga class?” She also asked “Why are there two types of Sun Salutes?” She said that doing all of those Sun Salutes was really challenging and that sometimes she needed to […]
