Five-minute yoga challenge: add a roll in Virasana to loosen your hamstrings and heal your feet
Thirty years ago, when I first started taking yoga classes, Virasana (hero pose) was a 50/50 proposition. Some days it was fine. Sitting up on three chip foam blocks, I could feel a pleasant stretch in the fronts of my feet. My knees didn’t bother me, my front thighs weren’t tight and life was good. […]
Sadhana: the practice for day three
Tuesday, day two, was shoulder stand variations and forward bends. It was interesting to see which standing poses were echoed in the variations. For some reason I had never seen quite so clearly before how Eka Pada Sarvangasana (shoulder stand with one leg descending) relates to Parsvottanasana (intense side stretch pose) – with a concave […]