Meet your I-maker, and feel less alone
In January, after several months of not taking a weekly yoga class, I started again, in a different space, with a different teacher. One of the great benefits of taking a break and changing routines is that everything looks fresh, and emotions you’d forgotten come back to the surface, ripe for examination. Somewhat to my […]
How to keep going when you’re practicing on a plateau
When you first take up yoga, progress is swift. Downward dog moves from shockingly hard to challenging, and then to perceptibly less so. Hamstrings begin to stretch, standing poses start to feel familiar, and, with each class, there are new poses to try, and new sensations to experience. Progress comes by leaps and bounds. But […]
It’s not all bliss: how to work with poses you don’t like, part two
So you’ve already looked around, noticed that other people enjoy poses you hate, and accepted the possibility that you might come to like those poses too. You’ve gazed deep into the eyes of your least favorite poses, and recognized them as your own tailored assignments from life, superbly structured to teach you whatever it is […]
It’s not all bliss: how to work with poses you don’t like, part one
Most of us come to yoga from one of two directions. We are flexible but weak, or we’re strong but stiff. After our first few classes we already know the poses we love. They may not be effortless, but we understand their logic and find them exhilarating to practice. Then there are those other poses, […]