Five-minute yoga challenge: roll your upper back on tennis balls
Place the tennis balls in the meaty part of your upper back, one of each side of your spine, close to your spine. As yoga props go, tennis balls are close to unbeatable: inexpensive, widely available, and supremely effective. True, you will never find an ancient Vedic seal with a yogi rolling on a tennis […]
How I gained super powers in my desert-island pose
If I were castaway on Modriki Island in Fiji – site of the Tom Hanks movie – I’d be doing shoulder stand.If I ever had to pick just one pose to do for the rest of my life, I’d have no hesitation: I’d choose shoulder stand, all the way. Why does it make my list […]
Five minute yoga challenge: strap your thigh bones and explore a forward bend
In a forward bend with the legs parallel, the front thighs roll toward each other, the skin and muscles of the back thighs spread away from each other, and the sitting bones widen. But while all this widening occurs, the tops of the thighbones, deep in the hip sockets, pull toward each other. This should […]
Cat Yoga, Chair News, and Yes, a new Five-Minute Yoga Challenge
In truth, the kitten in Cat Yoga isn’t doing yoga at all. Unlike Santra, the Finnish yoga bear, Shorty the cat is just being a kitten, and someone with a good grasp of yoga-speak, (and a less firm grip on Sanskrit spelling), has put his antics into a video. I pass it on in part […]
We need yoga chairs, but where can we get them?
If only we lived in Melbourne, Australia. Then we could go to EMP Industrial, makers of Pilates and yoga equipment in the nearby suburb of Malvern, and buy backless yoga chairs whenever we liked, for as little as $28 for a bulk purchase of 20 or more. Sure, they have funny looking white feet on […]
Five-Minute Yoga Challenge: find a time of day to watch your breath
I’ve come to believe that forming good habits would be a cinch if “first thing in the morning” could happen more than once a day. Nothing lets us start a daily practice more easily than resolving to do it first thing. We’re fresh from sleep. The world has yet to place legitimate demands on us. […]