Jun
05
21-Day Yoga Challenge: Pose a Day Today’s Pose is: Parsvakonasana or Side Angle Pose This pose is a fantastic side body stretch, inner leg stretch and chest opener. When you focus your mind, you will get the most out of the complementary muscles. The front knee bends to stretch the inner thigh while the back leg engages strongly …
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
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
06
Here in the states we have begun to experience the time of the year that follows winter: Road Work Season. This means detour signs will be aplenty and our regular routes may be upended. The common use of the detour sign inclines me to think: inconvenience. However, after a recent trip across the pond, I am …
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 …
Jan
15
The use of the adjective real has come to my attention—not like the popular use of the word cool to describe something of agreeable interest versus a degree of weather. Rather, I contemplate the use of real to accredit someone for what they have done or accomplished. Besides the commercial use of the slogan, I …
Nov
29
In yoga I find the use of props an essential part of teaching and taking classes. In class, I may refer to them as toys—I am the teacher who hauls in lacrosse, golf, tennis and even beach balls. I may joke of them being toys, but they are truly tools. These tools help deepen a …
Sep
28
Over the fall, I have taken on a traveling adventure across the great United States. To see places I have not been, to meet people I do not know, and to stretch my comfort level in ways I have not done. My car is loaded with more supplies than most families of four would require …
