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The Pursuit of Poses: A Shift in Perspective
A young Vicky in love with arm balances. When I first began my yoga practice, I was both fascinated and captivated by the postures. Many of the yoga books attributed miraculous healing benefits and...
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6 Ways to Build more Strength in your Yoga Practice
It’s probably fairly obvious to say given that this is a blog about yoga, but I love yoga. I mean really love it. If I could get away with spending most of my time just practicing yoga I would (with...
View ArticleA Simple Breathing Practice to Restore and Heal
“The oscillation of breathing is a perfect mirror of the fluctuations of life. If we are open to this process, life will move us. If we are unable to integrate life’s changes, we begin to resist by...
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A Yoga Sequence for Better Sleep
One of the first things I ask my private clients is about the quantity and quality of their sleep. In my years of teaching and asking this question I would estimate that less than 10% of my students...
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A Yoga Practice to Relieve Lower Back Pain
One of the most common musculo-skeletal complaints that my clients come to yoga for is relief of their lower back pain. The reasons for lower back pain can be wide and varied, and this is one instance...
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A Yoga Sequence for Healthy Feet and Ankles
The feet are the very foundation of our skeleton and as such, play a critical role in our posture and movement habits. With 26 bones in each foot and multiple joint surfaces, a healthy, balanced foot...
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A Yoga Sequence to Improve Balance + 3 Essential Tips!
One of the most frequent requests in both my private yoga teaching and public classes is a yoga sequence to help improve balance. I often say to my students that working on balance requires a healthy...
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My Top 5 Summer Yoga-Related Reads
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi This is a must-read for anyone who is interested in improving the quality of their life. It is essentially a book about how to...
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A Morning Mobility Yoga Sequence
A few of my clients have been recently asking for a morning mobility yoga sequence that they can do on a regular basis. Personally, I try to make some time in the early morning to do some sort of...
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5 Reasons to Take a Private Yoga Class
The way yoga is taught today couldn’t be further removed from its traditional roots. Back in the day, yoga was handed down from teacher to student usually in one-on-one settings or small...
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