How to start practicing yoga
As a yoga teacher I’m often asked for advice on how to start a yoga practice. Here are a few tips.
Redefining "Advanced yoga"
“I’d like to get into yoga, but I just wish I were better at it.” The notion that one can be “good” or “bad” at yoga is misguided; with yoga there is no beginning, middle, or end.
Yoga for Designers
Here are a few simple poses to start a basic yoga practice that benefits the creative process.
Mindful Design: What the UX World Can Learn from Yoga
This article is reprinted from the September 2013 issue of UXPA Magazine.
In this article, I will describe how mindfulness practices benefit designers, based on my firsthand experience as a design executive, mentor and yoga teacher.
The Nectar of Chanting
We just returned from a family trip to the ashram in upstate NY. Our visit was profound, powerful, and uplifting, in ways that are too deep, personal, and difficult to explain with words. As is typically the case when taking the kids to a new, unfamiliar place, they were uncomfortable at first, but by the end of the week they loved it. Much to my surprise and delight, the kids have really taken to chanting.
"I'm not good at yoga."
Now that I'm teaching yoga, the topic of yoga comes up in conversation from time to time. A comment I hear often is "I don't do yoga. I'm not good at it." The irony of this comment fascinates me. How come one rarely says, "I don't go to strength training classes, because I'm not strong," yet people say they don't do yoga because they're not flexible?
Contemplating non-attachment
Book I, Sutra 15, "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"
Drstanusravika visaya vitrsnasya vasikara samjna vairagyam
The consciousness of self-mastery in one who is free from craving for objects seen or heard about is non-attachment.
Why do we roll to the right from Savasana?
A question came up in yoga class about why we always roll to the right after Savasana.