News Flash: I have a skeleton!
On the left, Arthur. On the right, my wonderful and generous physiotherapist, Judy Russell. Well, of course I’ve always had bones. But now I have a 30-inch tall anatomically correct skeleton, named Arthur. He is nowhere as big as a full-sized skeleton, but he’s engagingly solid, and while the top of his head is missing, […]
Serenity now? Let’s hope so.
This is just to let you know that there is no post this week if you don’t count this one, which doesn’t count, because it’s a post about not posting. I’ve decided to temporarily slow down the publishing schedule at Five-Minute Yoga to once every two weeks. Right now there are a lot of other […]
What dandelions taught me about “cultivating the opposite”
On Sunday morning, I taught my two classes, came home, had lunch, and, since it wasn’t raining, went out to the back yard to do some spring cleanup. My main objective was to tackle the dandelions that grow just outside the flowerbed and between the paving stones of my parking space. I opened Photo365 on […]
Are some yoga poses lemons?
On reflection, I’d say no. There are poses that can cause harm if they are badly done. And there are poses so likely to be badly done that careful teachers rarely teach them – or more precisely, they rarely teach the final pose. That doesn’t make these poses lemons, just poses to approach with care. […]
Lord, it’s hard to be humble
Perhaps not exactly what’s meant by humility. Right off the bat, I’ll admit that I don’t know much about humility. It’s not a virtue I’ve ever cultivated. In fact, I only started thinking about it on Monday, while I was reading a piece called Yoga, Our Mirror, by Montreal Iyengar teacher Carla Ramirez. (It’s in […]
Wrecked by yoga: a personal story
Do you think yoga might be dangerous? Had you realized it could be this dangerous? So now The New York Times wants to tell me that yoga can wreck my body. Big whoop. For years now, I’ve known how dangerous yoga can be. Yoga took over my mind, rearranged my priorities, changed my career path, […]