I’m going to devote the next few posts to something very fundamental — your questions. Thanks to the Skribit technology on the left hand column of the blog, I’m able to take reader suggestions for post topics. You’ve asked, and now I want to reply.The first topic I’m going to tackle is wrist pain -…

This birthday marks one half century on earth and while I’ve been blessed with good health, there are times that my body lets me know that my parts don’t work as well as they once did. I’ve always been active, but it was time to get serious about staying healthy and mobile. So I joined a gym a…

The problem with fibromyalgia is that you experience pain, but the pain does not have a physical cause; fibromyalgia is a diagnosis that is made after all possible physical causes of pain have been explored.

The experience of constant pain leads to several physical and emotional outcomes, among w…

When I first began practicing yoga, I was all about asana. I didn’t care to study the lineage from which my asana came nor did I care to take in stories about Hindu Gods/Goddesses. Nope — I was straight up asana girl. As date went by my interest in the culture from where my beloved yoga came from b…

There are many techniques to improve and isolate yoga forward bends so they generate a holistic expansion all through the back lines of the body. A simple technique that you can add to some of your forward bends is what I shout a hollow lock.
A hollow lock has a similar feeling as uddiyani bandha (…

Childs Pose (Balasana) is a classic forward bending yoga posture that utilizes gravity to generate a restorative expansion of many muscle groups. When we approach a posture with a specific intention or purpose (doing Childs Pose to facilitate a forward bend), we should observe whether the intention…

Annie Duke is known as the world’s most successful female poker player.
She spends 16-20 hours at a poker table making a living, all while being a full duration mom of four and a yoga and health enthusiast.

How do you find yoga affects your mental and physical well being, and energy level?
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I finished reading What Are We Seeking by TKV Desikachar for the second day last night. Rather than write my own commentary today, I’d like to share with you a passage that reached out and grabbed me. I propose letting it marinate in your brain for a while — a little food for thought. Here it is:”W…

So, what does courage tempered by wisdom look like? How is it different
from the kind of courage that prompts our friends to say “You’re so
courageous!” when what they’re really thinking is “You’re so out of your
mind!”Yoga set me on a path of awareness and self-discovery. As I’ve walked along th…

Many forward bending Yoga poses involve the lengthening and stretching of the hamstring muscles. By incorporating subtle spirals of the thighs, you can more effectively isolate the 3 hamstring muscles.
The hamstring muscles consist of 3 muscles:
*Biceps Femoris muscle that originates at the ischial…