Despite the many cancelled classes at the beginning of January, here is the list of real yoga students’ 2014 resolutions from my class at Hampshire Regional YMCA in Northampton and my mother’s (Linda Hill) yoga classes at CNY Healing Arts in Albany, NY. These student share their goals and resolutions for what they want from their practice in 2014. …
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There is one excuse that I find inexcusable and downright irritating. It is a sign of giving up, admitting defeat. “I guess I can’t do that anymore. I’m just too old.” It is my experience after working with a significant range of ages, that only the 40 and 50 year-olds would dare say something so …
We all have our own affinities. When teaching yoga I love to teach about organ systems. There is nothing more exciting than helping someone to release their organ bodies in a yoga pose and see the pose soften and expand. With acupuncture one of my affinities is scar treatments. A scar treatment for those of …
This morning one of the fuses blew in our apartment. Our house, built in the 1890s, has its quirks. The wiring was mismatched and confused, in not one, but three additions put on the house about 80 years ago. Luckily we are not frequent small appliance users and in the nearly six years we’ve been …
In thinking about how I would initially respond and in thinking about how I write my blog on a weekly basis, I realized there is one phase that repeatedly gets censored every time I think it. That phrase is—the other day in therapy. I don’t reveal to my blog readers that I am in weekly talk therapy. …
One of the fundamental differences between yoga and other group exercise endeavors is the emotion. Your basic practitioner, ie someone who hasn’t read the books, attended numerous retreats at Kripalu, doesn’t know how to put a yoga mat in the overhead containers on an airplane, also may not know about emotions. The body holds stories …
This is not a joke. In the last few years the major injuries I have sustained happened while making the bed, getting ice cream out of the freezer, taking my vitamins, doing laundry and reaching for blankets before a yoga class started. Injuries happen when we are stressed and multitasking. As a yoga teacher the …
As this is the last post in the Practice series I’ve been thinking an awful lot about what makes people stick to a routine. I’ve already talked about how I don’t think that discipline builds a practice or keeps it going, I’ve talked about lighting a spark to keep the fire alive in your practice and I’ve helped brainstorm …
Now we get to the filler. You know what your practice is, you know how much time and energy you can devote to it, you know how to keep the passion alive, now we figure out the specifics. Making an Outline Every recipe has a list of ingredients and a set order of steps to …
In Chinese Medicine the element Fire is related to the Heart. If there is too much heat in the body it eventually spreads to the Heart and causes agitation, sleeplessness and mania. If there isn’t enough heat in the body everything slows down and the mind gets foggy from the build up fluids. Fire is …