{"id":110,"date":"2009-03-09T02:54:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeon-yoga.com\/articles\/?p=110"},"modified":"2009-03-09T02:54:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T02:54:46","slug":"slow-and-steady-a-successful-yoga-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/slow-and-steady-a-successful-yoga-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"SLOW AND STEADY:  a successful yoga practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;ve been studying with Shelley for\u00a06 years and am amazed at the profound changes in my body.\u00a0 Layers of deeply held tensions and postural patterns\u00a0have been slowly peeled away.\u00a0 I have one of those short, tight and strong body types which I have jokingly referred to as good for\u00a0digging potatoes from the earth&#8230;but not exactly &#8220;ballerina&#8221; material!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shelley has encouraged me to push through\u00a0my difficult limitations.\u00a0 I am always confident in her expert knowledge of yoga and anatomy to avoid injury.\u00a0 In fact, her guidance in class cured me of sciatica a few years ago.\u00a0 While I&#8217;m still unequally flexible in some areas and\u00a0\u00a0very tight in others,\u00a0 my accomplishments in Shelley&#8217;s class have given me\u00a0a soaring feeling of freedom and power.\u00a0 I just did the full lotus position last week.\u00a0 What a thrill!<\/div>\n<div>Jeanette Shelburne<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em>If you have a testimonial about how Yoga has changed or enhanced your life and you are inspired to share your experience please email it to:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em>shelley@writeonyoga.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been studying with Shelley for\u00a06 years and am amazed at the profound changes in my body.\u00a0 Layers of deeply held tensions and postural patterns\u00a0have been slowly peeled away.\u00a0 I have one of those short, tight and strong body types which I have jokingly referred to as good for\u00a0digging potatoes from the earth&#8230;but not exactly &#8220;ballerina&#8221; material!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shelley has encouraged&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/slow-and-steady-a-successful-yoga-practice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeonyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}