by Liz | Jun 25, 2016 | Anatomy, featured, Safety
Since beginning a daily yoga practice, my wrists have been giving me a good amount of grief. Based on my conversations with students and teachers alike, I’m not the only one. Most of your students live most of their lives upright – then all of a sudden in yoga class...
by Mado | Jan 13, 2014 | Ethics, featured, Safety
In my first teacher training, we were encouraged to put our hands on our students at every opportunity. “This is your work,” I was told. In my second teacher training, I was taught to assist verbally first. If that doesn’t accomplish your goal, demonstrate...
by Libby Hinsley | Jan 2, 2014 | Anatomy, Deepen Your Practice, featured, Yoga Class Planning
The psoas major is a deep and mysterious muscle that tends to be overused and, when cranky, causes a lot of problems. All yoga instructors benefit from having a basic understanding of how this muscle works and how yoga can help it stay healthy and supple. Basic...
by Pandit Jerome | Dec 25, 2013 | Deepen Your Practice, featured, Meditation
One of the biggest challenges to maintaining a consistent meditation practice is learning how to manage the mind. The mind can be the doorway to the inner peace of deep meditation, or it can be an obstacle. A restless mind can be a formidable foe to meditation...
by Steven Weiss | Dec 18, 2013 | Anatomy, Deepen Your Practice, featured
In part two of this response to William Broad’s recent New York Times article and its call to alarm about yoga’s adverse effect on women’s hips, I’d like to offer the following alignment principles for safe practice. I bring to the issue my background as a...
by Steven Weiss | Dec 4, 2013 | Anatomy, featured
Toe-sweating apprehension has swept through the yoga community faster than Colin Powell was able to say “weapons-of-mass-destruction”. The ground zero for this current alarm seems to be William Broad’s recent New York Times article. Along with his...
