Fame! and the next set of Bite-Sized Random Acts of Yoga
The Yoga on 7th Studio, from an article in Granville Magazine online. Photo by Eyeye.Oh lovely! Yoga on 7th was featured yesterday in a Granville Online magazine article, “Choosing the Right Yoga for You,” by Insiya Rasiwalla-Finn. We make her list of the top two Iyengar studios in Vancouver, and she also singles out my […]
Bite-Sized Random Acts of Yoga, Day 1
The first day of Bite-Sized Random Acts of Yoga. (Yes, I know there’s a missing “a” at the end of Svanasana.)Sometimes we all need a gimmick, and I think I’ve found mine. In the third week of January next year, I’m going to sit my Junior Intermediate I assessment. Part of the assignment is to […]
Smack in the middle of the mandala – it’s a good place to sit
A Tibetan mandala – “the cosmic blueprint of the celestial palace of Yamantaka, Conqueror of Death”One of the happiest parts of this fall for me has been resuming my sitting practice after the disruptions of the summer. It’s not a long practice, but since the beginning of September, it’s been daily, and that makes me happy. […]
Sadhana Day Four: forward bends, take two
Sunrise at Devil’s Tower National Monument, Wyoming – not as steep a climb as getting up some morningsOne thing I wanted to accomplish during this sadhana was to reconnect with the joy of early morning practice – and joy it is. For one thing, the nagging little voice that says: “It’s time for practice, better […]
Arm balance, a love story
I first saw someone do full arm balance in a vacant lot in East Vancouver in 1962 when I was earning a Girl Guide badge that required me to build a fire and boil water in a billycan to make tea. Mrs. Jones, the troop leader, was there to witness the fire building and water […]
5 reasons to love your imbalances
We are all out of balance to some degree. Triangle pose to the right may be a luxurious journey over smoothly oiled joints and long muscles. Turn to the left, and it feels like there’s sand in your joints and your hamstrings have, inexplicably, snapped an inch shorter. There’s the one wobbly standing leg in […]