A 30-minute shoulder stand practice to reverse late afternoon slump
What’s the best time of day to do shoulder stand? The pat answer is that disciplined yogis always do their practice first thing in the morning, so the best time is toward the end of morning practice. The practical answer is: whenever you can. Perhaps you have to leave for work too early to make […]
10 yoga poses for shoulders, and three tips to make them even more powerful
The thing about the shoulder exercises gathered on this page is that they all work, in the sense that a good cookbook works if you actually open it and cook. But just as cooking has principles that extend through every recipe, yoga has certain principles of movement that work in almost most every pose. Correct […]
90 days of shoulder stand: a long and winding road
Back on September 6th, I committed to doing shoulder stand every day for 90 days. Yesterday was day 30. Here’s the report: I started with the assumption that the hard part would be showing up every day. In fact, it’s not so hard. Maybe it’s the power of commitment: I feel like a switch has […]
Five-Minute Yoga Challenge: clasp your hands to open your shoulders
Want to transform your shoulders without help from a magic frog? Read on. “It is no over-statement to say that if a person regularly practices Sarvangasana he will feel new vigour and strength and will be happy and confident. New life will flow into him, his mind will be at peace and he will feel […]
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 […]
Sadhana: the practice for day six
One of the interesting things about this lotus is that it was photographed in New Jersey.Day five, Friday, was a day for experimental standing poses. In this case, what happens if you create a shoulder brace out of a long strap, hold the ends of the strap, and do your standing poses without taking weight […]