Cat Yoga, Chair News, and Yes, a new Five-Minute Yoga Challenge
In truth, the kitten in Cat Yoga isn’t doing yoga at all. Unlike Santra, the Finnish yoga bear, Shorty the cat is just being a kitten, and someone with a good grasp of yoga-speak, (and a less firm grip on Sanskrit spelling), has put his antics into a video. I pass it on in part […]
We need yoga chairs, but where can we get them?
If only we lived in Melbourne, Australia. Then we could go to EMP Industrial, makers of Pilates and yoga equipment in the nearby suburb of Malvern, and buy backless yoga chairs whenever we liked, for as little as $28 for a bulk purchase of 20 or more. Sure, they have funny looking white feet on […]
Five-Minute Yoga Challenge: move your spine in two directions at once
It’s March. In Vancouver, we expect cherry blossoms, rain and spring winds. For Iyengar students, that includes the friendly blast of fresh air called Gabriella Giubilaro. Gabriella is a senior Iyengar teacher based in Florence. Last weekend she taught her annual Vancouver workshop, ending with a four-hour teacher training on Monday. There were themes, of […]
Sadhana Day Five: Sunshine at Last
I made it to bed last night around 10:30, and had just turned out the light when I remembered that I hadn’t laid out my clothes for the morning. Tired as I was, I got up, gathered the tights, t-shirt and underwear and hung them in the bathroom. Any other night I might have weighed […]
Sadhana, Day Two: backbends
The sunrise we’d like to have seen on the first day of SadhanaThe first day of Sadhana is a bit like the first day of school, when you get to see who else is in your class. Everyone who was early enough to have a choice scoped the room and set up in their personal […]