More esoteric aspects of yoga are beginning to become part of our everyday vernacular. Initially yoga in the west was actually Hatha Yoga but now other aspects of it are available. It’s a blessing to live in times when...
There is a new tool trending in town these days that promises to make you love your yoga even more. That tool is the Yoga Wheel. This is truly a wheel - an equipment that is fast becoming a...
In our consumer society, “the best of” anything brings to mind the most expensive, luxurious, or high branded products. But we are talking about yoga, and so right away we need to shift our mind away from the everyday...
We’ve all been at that moment: we’re right in the middle of something important, and just when we need to focus most keenly, suddenly, everything else is forgotten because we’ve just started a terrible headache. Headaches sometimes build up...
If Yoga has a central core concept around which every asana is delicately balanced, that would be, without doubt, the role of breath. Different schools of Yoga, Hatha, Vinnyasa and more, all have different asanas in their repertoire, but...
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