> Articles by: Ann
Date registered: January 19, 2012
Jun
03
21-Day Yoga Challenge: Pose a Day Today’s Pose is: Vanarasana or Lunge Pose Vanarasana or lunge pose, like so many of our poses, can be performed in various ways. Hands can be on the floor or raised toward the ceiling and the back knee can be on the floor or lifted, pressing the heel back. Try this …
Jun
02
21-Day Yoga Challenge: Pose a Day Today’s Pose is: Adho Mukha Svanasana or Downward- Facing Dog Downward Facing Dog is a staple in many yoga classes. In sun salutations, it is the basis from which the other postures flow into and from. It is a therapeutic pose and can be modified in a myriad of ways …
Jun
01
Welcome to Day One of the 21-Day Yoga Challenge: Pose a Day Today’s Pose is: Phalakasana or Plank Pose. What a way to start! Yes, this is a challenging pose, but it gets easier because you get stronger each time you practice it. While our challenge is not about stringing the poses together day after day, …
May
25
A Reminder: Beginning Saturday, June 1st! 21-Day Yoga Challenge: Pose of the Day Join in from June 1-21 ~ the last days of spring to the Summer Solstice ☀️ Each day, think-yoga.com will post a chosen pose for you to practice along with cues to consider and benefits of the pose. Each offering will provide …
May
15
Greet Summer Strong with the 21-Day Yoga Challenge: Pose of the Day Join in from June 1-21 ~ the last days of spring to the Summer Solstice ☀️ Each day, think-yoga.com will post a chosen pose for you to practice along with cues to consider and benefits of the pose. Each offering will provide modifications …
Jun
24
Gratitudes and Intentions In 2015, I was given the rare and beautiful gift to be beside another as he and his family navigated the final months of his life. It was a gift because I trust that gifts are revealed not in shiny packages or spoken promises or in written guarantees, but rather in the …
Jan
25
The Book of Ruth, a novel chosen by our book club, back in the time when Oprah still held sway over book picks, turns violent in the last chapter. Maybe my memory overplays the drama, but a tingle still ripples my nervous system as I recall the graphic details of demise. On the evening that …
Jan
01
Open the door to the new year and like a clean sheet of paper or a desk calendar with crisp corners, feel the slate of viable possibilities. This annual resurgence of potential offers encouragement and enthusiasm. What a gift to be offered: an invitation to renew.
Apr
06
Spring is the perfect time to be re-invigorated. Whether it is the offering of warm weather to get outside and move more or the sweetness of sitting on the front porch at first light to listen to the birds. At this time of year, those birds sound like old classmates who have come together for a …
Jun
25
To be a true friend to someone means being fully present in their life, even if miles separate you. Growing up, friends were created by proximity of where I could ride my bike and through school activities. For most of us, college or our first jobs widened our selection of friendships that introduced us to …