Five-Minute Yoga Challenge: hang your head to free your neck.
Almost every time Wende, my first teacher, looked at my downward dog, she would say: “Eve, let go of your head.” Time after time, it came as a surprise. I was so used to gripping my neck that I no longer knew I was doing it. Head-forward posture, the kind we adopt when we stare […]
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 […]
Five-Minute Yoga Challenge: reverse the curve
A normal curve and a hyper-kyphotic curve of the spineWe all have a kyphosis, or at least we ought to – it’s the natural outward curve of the upper back, which balances the inward curves of the neck and the low back. Hyper-kyphosis is different. The outward curve becomes exaggerated, and we lose our ability […]