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 […]
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 […]
Can you do flow yoga while sitting still?
On the face of it, this is a dumb question. Flow yoga, as generally defined, covers a wide range of forms all of which link poses in close to continuous movement. Some, like Ashtanga, follow a set sequence of poses, with a sun salutation between each pose. Others have no set sequence, and may or […]
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 […]