Five-Minute Yoga Challenge: spend a week walking your dog
Place a penny between your index and middle finger moundsMy friend Terri told me recently that she’d had a pain in her foot that was given temporary relief whenever she did downward facing dog pose. So she found herself doing dog pose five or more times a day – whenever the pain-relieving effect wore off. […]
Five-Minute Yoga Challenge: roll your feet on a tennis ball to loosen tight hamstrings
Is there such a thing as yoga magic? If you struggle with tight hamstrings, this Five-Minute Yoga Challenge might lead you to say yes. The effects can be startling the first time you try it. Continue to roll your feet daily for a week and some of that “shock of the new” will drop away. […]
Get a Leg Up on Downward Dog
When we first encounter it, most of us find downward dog somewhat daunting, with its simultaneous demands for strength and flexibility in arms and shoulders, hips and hamstrings. Over time, it gets significantly easier. Once you’re past the raw beginner stage, one of the best ways to bring even more ease into your dog pose […]
Drop a Block To Tune Your Triangle Pose
It’s a happy coincidence that just as the triangle is the first figure of plane geometry, Utthita Trikonasana (extended triangle pose) is often the first place where many of us feel the inner geometry of yoga – the understanding that as we align ourselves physically, we also somehow bring our minds and emotions into alignment […]