Congratulations: exotic yoga locations revealed, massage balls won
Gaileee in tree pose in Mongolia Two weeks ago, in honor of reaching a milestone of 1,000 Five-Minute Yoga apps sold everywhere from Peru to Saudi Arabia, I proposed a contest: tell me the most exotic place you’ve ever practiced yoga, and you might win one of three pairs of massage balls, generously donated by […]
What’s the most exotic place you’ve ever struck a pose? Tell me and you could win
Okay, fireworks would be overkill. But massage balls? Nice.Have you ever let a benchmark slip by unnoticed? If so, I think you’ll know how I feel. Some time late in August, I noticed that we were bearing down on a thousand sales of the My Five Minute Yoga Practice iPhone app. I was excited. One […]
Life, Happiness and the Pursuit of Liberty?
So what comes first – freedom or happiness?I’ve been thinking lately of something B.K.S. Iyengar wrote in Light on Life, his summary of yoga wisdom at the age of 87. A great boon of yoga, even for relative beginners, is the happiness it brings, a state of self-reliant contentment. Happiness is good in itself and […]
How does the impossible become possible?
How does the impossible become possible? I don’t really know the answer to that. But I do know that in yoga it happens all the time. Take rope Sukhasana, for example, or Shirley’s rope trick – as I think of it. I first saw it two years ago, in an intensive workshop preparing for Junior […]
A red chair to wake up in
It’s red. And that’s only the first coat. Early this spring, I put an Adirondack chair in our tiny pocket front garden, so, for the first time in the 23 years we’ve lived here, I could sit outside, at plant level. The chair was white. It sat beside a big turquoise pot positioned underneath the […]
How to turn on your willpower and stick to your yoga practice
I used to think that willpower was a moral issue. Good, strong people did difficult tasks first thing every morning and never lost their self-control when they were tired or hungry. Bad, weak people failed because they didn’t have the moral fibre to do what was right in the moment. My concept of willpower was […]