Category: Pose of the Month

HIP OPENERS; PREPARATION FOR FULL LOTUS

Hips!!! Hips!!!? Basically let me begin by reminding you that yoga begins in your home by simply sitting on the floor.  We did this as children. We all sat easily in a cross-legged Indian sitting position,  but other positions such as virasana, wide angle pose are common for children; but as adults we have lost this ability.  With Hip openers…

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HIP OPENERS: OPENING THE DOOR OF STANDING POSTURES

I have noticed, as I sometimes will catch a yoga class while I’m traveling, that the trend in teaching standing poses is to avoid addressing the tightness that shows up in the hip flexors.  Rather then finding what needs to open and stretch and how to get there, it is taught as though the weakness and lack of flexibility determines the…

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A Twist A Day Keeps the Winter Sniffles Away

It is almost winter and even in Los Angeles it can get cold and wet.  People begin to get colds and sore throats starting around the Christmas holidays continuing till March.  During the cold months I love to do Spinal Twists. Twists not only open the chest and therefore increase breathing capacity, they directly stretch and open up the Lung Meridian.  Meridians…

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