A love of the different and the far away, a desire of “I want to be able to do that”, and a convenient location to the Sorcerer’s Tower — the tabletop gaming store I frequented — would find me in the “Hong Kong Action” section at the movie rental hotspot Groovy Movies A-Go-Go. Past the counter-culture magazines, past the more …
Science and Yoga: Where Do They Meet? Last week, I was fortunate to be able to attend the Science and Yoga Conference hosted by certified Ashtanga teacher Eddie Stern. The conference brought together eight brilliant minds who have been researching at the intersection between science and yoga. You can read through a list and bios of the speakers here. You can …
Oh what a word! Paradox. Google defined it for me as: “a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true” or Yoga in general. Into my tenth year of practicing Ashtanga I have come across the paradoxes of Ashtanga yoga many times. The most recent one being severe …
Practice is always challenging; some days are more difficult than others. When having a difficult yoga practice, you might have noticed difficulties that include tightness, fatigue, impatience, emotional reactivity, inflammation, shallow or labored breathing, heaviness, unfocused mind, and lack of willpower. Through repeated encounters with a difficult yoga practice, I have developed a sense of when it is better to …
What is Mysore practice? The short answer is that it’s a method of practicing Ashtanga vinyasa yoga. A small group of students meet with a teacher. The teacher helps each student memorize a part of one of the Ashtanga sequences. What the sequence looks like depends on each student’s familiarity with practice and what their body is ready for. Anyone …