Success! 94 days of shoulder stand, and counting
I did it. I met my commitment to do shoulder stand every day for 90 days. Day one wasn’t glorious. Neither was day 90. There were days when my entire practice was seven minutes draped over a chair. However, mostly it’s been good. I stay longer and do more variations than when I started my […]
The first ever Five-Minute Yoga contest: Win a Way to Get Organized
Blurry image? It’s not your eyes. Double click to see it larger and clearer. A few weeks ago, I fell in love with a time management app. This is not as odd as it may sound for a yoga teacher. I’ve been fascinated by organizational systems for as long as I can remember. I suspect […]
Ninety days of shoulderstand: the end is nigh – or is it?
Well, at least it’s coming into view – and who knows, I might just keep going.Sixty-five days into 90 days of shoulder stand, I find myself thinking about a New Yorker cartoon I saw a long time ago, and by that I mean 30 years. The drawing is of a street prophet, in beard and […]
Learn to do a full back bend, one step at a time
“The body is the bow, asana is the arrow, the soul is the target” – B.K.S. IyengarIn my first dance class, I clung to my mother’s knee, three years old and already deeply suspicious of group activities. Then Miss Goddard announced “London Bridges” – the full back bend that Iyengar yogis call “upward bow.” I […]
The mulling is over, the commitment is on.
Does one day’s shoulder stand link to the next, making them stronger, day by day? I hope so.On Tuesday, September 6, I did my first of 90 days of shoulder stand. It was not an auspicious start. On Monday I had the tail end of a few days of runny nose and one day of […]
Are you ready to commit to a daily practice?
I once heard a story about a senior Iyengar teacher whose non-negotiable daily commitment to her practice was to do her headstand and shoulder stand at 5 p.m. local time. I no longer remember who it was – if you can fill me in, please do. But since she was an international teacher, who travelled […]