Beyond The Mat

Some parts of your body have a way of telling you when they are tight.  Your hamstrings, for example, feel stiff and achy when they’re in need of a relaxing...

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The weather is warming up, school is out, and it’s time for your vacation.  If you are like most yoga students, you can’t wait to get away and have fun....

It may be cliché, I know, but yoga has changed my life.  Somebody recently asked me how and I realized that it is has been a slow and steady process,...

There are few asanas that students either love or hate as much as inversions.  You might be clamoring to get to that part of class or you might dread even...

Every time you begin your practice, you take a big step toward keeping your heart healthy.  Yoga’s emphasis on relaxation adds to the impressive array of benefits — increased lung...

Sometimes, it’s not that easy to look over at the next student, see them doing the “harder” variation and not want to copy that, even if you know you shouldn’t....

Surely when we are injured, either emotionally or physically, we should be extra specially nice to ourselves.  We should take care of ourselves more: not less.  Now, just try convincing...

How you meditate can be different every day.  Your needs will set your meditation practice.  Feel free to experiment with different ways of finding your mental center -- there is no right...

You’ve just found a new hot yoga studio you can’t wait to try or maybe you’ve finally crossed the bridge from wanting to try yoga to taking your first class....

A samskara can be a repeated pattern of thinking or acting.  The more you repeat those thoughts and deeds, the more ingrained they become.  The end result?  You find yourself...

Like arm strength and balance, flexibility might be the subject for a lot of stories you tell yourself.  Thoughts patterns like, “I’ve always been so tight” or “My hamstrings just...