Headstand at 70? Why not?
JoAnn came to her private yoga class last week with a copy of “Father William,” Lewis Carroll’s poem in which an obnoxious young man attempts to guide his father in age-appropriate behavior. “Do you know it?” she asked. Do I know it? My mother loved it, and often quoted the first lines. I’ve used it […]
Why is yoga so hard to do?
caption= “Well it’s certainly something to think about, isn’t it? I was idly checking Google analytics on Tuesday morning, and on a whim decided to look at the “organic” search terms. Those are the words that people type into the vast waves of the Internet hoping for answers from just about any source. So what […]
How does the impossible become possible?
How does the impossible become possible? I don’t really know the answer to that. But I do know that in yoga it happens all the time. Take rope Sukhasana, for example, or Shirley’s rope trick – as I think of it. I first saw it two years ago, in an intensive workshop preparing for Junior […]