Even before reaching middle age, many sports enthusiasts and athletes find themselves challenged with “bad knees.” Disease, a family history of arthritis, improper bone alignment and long-term repetitive movement are all sources of knee pain. Furthermore, as the largest joints…
Prior to practicing yoga, I had a very superficial understanding of energy. Either I had it, or I didn’t. For me, it was a felt sensation in my body signalling how invigorated or deflated I judged myself to be in that moment.
Many years ago, during a Reiki session, the practitioner working on me asked if I could feel energy moving in my body. I was puzzled by her question and instead answered, “What I feel is tingling in my feet.” “That’s energy,” was her reply, “you feel it when it moves.”
In the beginning years of a yoga practice, much emphasis is placed on standing poses, which were designed to develop strength, stamina, flexibility and balance. Through their continued practice, we build a firm foundation starting with the feet and ankles…
Yoga’s eight limbs or pathways are intended to strengthen our response-ability no matter what situation emerges in our day-to-day living. In essence, this means ensuring the thoughts, words and deeds we put out into the world are of pure intention. …
Yoga is a spiritual practice meant to unite or integrate our whole being—mind, body and spirit. For many beginning yoga practitioners, these aspects of ourselves may not be working together and in some cases may actually work against each other.…
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Although many practitioners in North America may initially choose yoga as a physical exercise, in its essence it is a spiritual practice meant to awaken us…
With the recent publication of our yoga actions book on legs and knees, I received a number of requests for help with eliminating knee pain. As we age, it seems our knees take the brunt of our daily stress and…
Not everyone can do all yoga poses, but everyone can do all yoga actions. Yoga Actions for Pelvis & Psoas is the third in a five-volume series of e-books emphasizing actions in focused areas of our bodies — Feet &…
Whether you are parenting infants and teens or managing a team of employees, your ultimate goal is to develop their self-determination — the skills and choices that lead to healthy, happy, humane living. Simply stated but not easily accomplished because…
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Not everyone can do all yoga poses, but everyone can do all yoga actions. Yoga Actions for Legs & Knees is the second in a five-volume series of e-books emphasizing primary actions for such areas in our bodies as —…
Not everyone can do all yoga poses, but everyone can do all yoga actions. If you are reading these words, then like us, your intuition drew you to discover the transformational gifts inherent in the practice of yoga. Several years…
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