My Yoga Existential Crisis (or how I became the teacher I wanted to be) I had started practicing yoga in 1999 in community halls and basements. And when I started teaching in 2003, yoga ...
Sustainable Yoga Series: Chair Pose Quite often even the most beloved of yoga postures can create wear and tear on your ligaments and joints resulting ...
Free Your Feet Our feet are deserving of so much love and care; those 33 joints, 26 bones and over 100 muscles, tendons ...
Movement Monday! When in doubt, stick your butt out Are you a pelvis tucker? A tucked pelvis seems to be an epidemic these days. Next time you are in ...
Building a Sustainable Body Sustainability and permaculture are two words that (rightly so) we are hearing a lot more of in the mainstream. We ...
Sustainable Yoga Series: Downward Dog In my own teaching, I have seen so many people excited to learn a different approach to their yoga. One ...
Dispatches From the Lab Sitting on the plane, casually chatting with the person beside me, the inevitable question arises, "So what will you be ...
Ode to our yoga elders Here is a revolutionary thought- where have all the 'older' teachers gone? I don't see them in ads in yoga ...
Sustainable Yoga Series: Warrior One Over the years as my education and explorations with biomechanics deepens, there have been some poses that I no longer ...
Sitting With Ease You might have heard that "sitting is the new smoking." Sure, yes, sitting all day long at work, then sitting ...
Love love love and to be of service Years ago, I did a brief stint in film school. One of the projects was a short documentary. My subject ...
Sustainable Yoga Series: Upward Dog On the surface, Upward Facing Dog looks like a backbend. When asked, many people would reply, they practice upward dog ...
Yoga for Tight Psoas Muscles What are the psoas muscles? How can we stretch the psoas to relieve tension and tightness?
What is a sustainable yoga practice? It is so exciting to see more and more people embracing an evolved approach to yoga asana. You don't have ...
Sustainable Yoga Series: Sun Salutation Sun Salutations are ubiquitous in yoga. Usually found at the beginning of a practice, they are traditionally done as a ...
Going Deeper Where do we think we're going when we go deeper in a pose? When did "deeper" translate as something physical? ...
Movement Monday! Cobra for your shoulders and core Strong core + Supple Shoulders + 3 different variations of Cobra Pose
Movement Monday! Functional Core strength Strong + Functional Core strength without even having to do a plank (if you don't want to!)
The Heart of Yoga My experience of yoga isn't about poses or shapes. It is the mindful, somatic experience of myself in daily life, ...