Looking back on a year of yoga
A heap of jewel-bright Iyengar bracelets.It was cookie night last night, by which I know that it’s officially Christmas time, and year’s end. We made Cappuccino Shortbreads, Peppermint Patties, Gingerbreads, Clove Snaps (a clove-and-citrus take on Ginger Snaps), Lemon-Lime Butter Wafers, Kris Kringle chocolate cookies that you roll in either cocoa or icing sugar before […]
How is a yoga pose like a Russian matryoshka doll?
What does yoga have to do with matryoshka dolls? A lot, as it turns out. From the outside, yoga poses can look as though they don’t have much in common. Take this handful: extended side angle, triangle pose, tree pose, reclining big toe pose and extended hand-to-big-toe pose. On the simplest level, orientation to gravity, […]
Lose Your Counterbalance: Five-Minute Yoga Challenge
All of the standing balance poses have a counterbalance – a spot where it’s easy to stay upright because you’ve fallen away from the centre line. Most often it involves the standing leg thighbone, high in the hip socket. Let it drop out to the side, and the balance is easier. The problem is, you’re […]
If you don’t know where you’re going, how do you get there?
If I stand on my back deck and type Los Angeles into the Google Maps app on my iPhone, the instructions on how to drive there begin: “Turn right out of the lane onto West 5th Avenue,” which is as tiny a baby step as anyone could ever want. It’s too bad there’s no Google […]