Finding Your Energy Pathway
4 Sacred Domes & Mula Bandha For the accompanying inversion sequence, click here (p. 154). Namaste.
Yoga Actions for Opening & Stabilizing the Wrists
For more sequences specific to wrists, shoulders and arms, click here. Namaste.
Yoga Actions for Freeing the Shoulder Blades
Complete your practice with Viparita Karani and/or Savasana. For more sequences specific to shoulders and arms, click here. Namaste.
3-Minute Standing Sequence #3: HASTA PADANGUSTHASANA
YOGA ACTIONS: 2-directional stretch of the entire spine 1. INHALE breath up to crown 2. EXHALE breath down and out tailbone Instructions: 1) Repeat the YOGA ACTIONS for 5-10 breaths in each of the three variations of Chair Hasta Padangusthasana…
3-Minute Standing Sequence #2: UTTANASANA
YOGA ACTIONS: 2-directional stretch of the entire spine INHALE breath up to crown EXHALE breath down and out tailbone Instructions: Repeat the YOGA ACTIONS for 5-10 breaths in each of the three variations of Chair Uttanasana. After each variation, INHALE…
Yoga Asana for Your Ayurvedic Body Type — Vata, Pitta, Kapha
In the study of yoga, Ayurveda is known as the healing wisdom and was discovered during higher states of meditative consciousness. Just as there are no two people exactly alike, there are no two identical mind-body types (doshas). Your dosha…
A Path to Supta Virasana (Supine Hero Pose)
Many yogis struggle to find sattva (contentment and ease) in this reclining asana. Hence, why it is considered an intermediate pose and not taught until greater opening and flexibility have been achieved in the ankle, knee and hip joints. When…
The Yoga of Self-Realization — Training the 5 Senses
Our five physical senses — taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell — are constantly attempting to seduce us along a path of pleasure pursuit and pain avoidance. Not to say either of these directions is good or bad in themselves.…
The Yoga of Self-realization — Concentration
For all students determined to follow a spiritual path toward enlightenment, the first discipline Eknath Easwaran defines as a necessary ingredient is meditation. However, the practice of meditation not only involves such techniques as repeating a mantra but also requires…
The Yoga of Self-realization — Meditation
Eknath Easwaran, in The End of Sorrow, laid out a spiritual path that enabled him to “fulfill the supreme goal of life, self-realization. As he counseled, the following disciplines are available to everyone who embraces them willingly and with dedication.…
A Yoga Practice to Energize Hope
photo by Jeremy Williamson Hope inspires and expands; fear inhibits and implodes. When I saw these beautiful crocuses, I was immediately reminded of how Earth provides for and protects us from harm. The hope of new growth exists even during…