Tag Archives: Yoga
Beyond Science
My daughter’s master’s thesis has to do with the effect of yoga on heat shock proteins, if I understand her correctly. What it means is that she cycles across Windsor, Ontario, every morning with a portable centrifuge in her backpack,… Continue reading
Yoga and Energy Management
Oh, I adore yoga today. Over a 20-year career in health care practice, you can’t help but see that health care, indeed life care, has everything to do with management of energy. Some people have a strong sense of their… Continue reading
Nervousness on the Mat
On the phone this morning, I mentioned to my sister that I’m often anxious about going to new yoga studios. Truth be told, I’m nervous going back to my home studio whenever I’ve been away for a bit. "So what?"… Continue reading
Perfect Timing
On Tuesday I mentioned going to my first Kundalini class at a new-to-me studio in Toronto. It’d been a while since I’d been to any class at all. The buzz it left me with was enough to bring me back… Continue reading
Meeting Kundalini
In meditation circles, Kundalini yoga has a big-girl-on-the-block reputation. Something about Kundalini yoga, at least in theory, lends itself to meditation, altered states of consciousness, and bliss.Wikipedia says this: Practitioners call Kundalini yoga,the yoga of awareness because they claim… Continue reading
The Full Meal Deal
We’re a cranky household this week. Neither one of us has done our morning practice for four days. They have been four long, long days. My lovely man’s been working and, well, I don’t know what else. I’ve been doing… Continue reading
Yoga and Money
First of all, thanks very much for the approximately 26 billion pieces of mail you sent after I posted a short blog about the cost of yoga classes. It may take me a while to get back to each of… Continue reading
The Money Thing
Can we talk about the money thing? Last week, someone wrote saying it was a terrible shame that yoga costs so much money and that the superstar teachers charge huge sums for their classes. Yoga should be free, he suggested…. Continue reading
Off The Mat Yoga
Off-the-mat yoga became real to me this week. I don’t mean lovely things are happening that might indirectly be connected to my yoga and meditation practices. I mean that I am witnessing significant, substantial changes in life that feel directly… Continue reading
Mantras on the Mat
"This too shall pass." Sounds biblical. Wikipedia says no, that it first showed up in the writings of the Persian Sufi poets. This makes me whirling-dervish happy, being a huge fan of Hafiz and Rumi. Other sources say it’s credited… Continue reading