Pain or golden glow? It matters what you call it.
Several years ago, while stocking up on reading for a beach holiday, I bought an old Pelican paperback (which has the name Doris Shadbolt written on the cover in a small, round hand). Yoga, by Ernest Wood, is an account written by an Englishman who came to India in 1910, learned Sanskrit and associated with […]
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, […]