Reflections on practicing yoga at home
The cushy version I was surprised to discover that I have written many times about Supta Virasana (reclining hero pose). Recently I've been thinking about what a key prep pose it is for pranayama. This older post has some good details, though, and I'll try not to repeat them. I always thought of it as… Continue reading Easing into Supta Virasana
I don't know why the sciatica is back in full force. I'm working on the sciatica sequence in Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health, by B.K.S. Iyengar. I am modifying it as I can with the poses in Light on Yoga. I'm not going to list all of these, but boy oh boy there are… Continue reading Sciatica again, dang
I wanted to do some standing poses today (surprise!), and so I decided to do them in a little flow sequence, holding each for 30-60 seconds and then moving to the next without coming out of the pose. Some of my transitions were a little clunky, notably from Parsvakonasana to Ardha Chandrasana. Miriam Austin's… Continue reading Flow and timing
I seem to have a pattern going of going to class on Wednesday, and then practicing on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings. Very strange. I'm trying for every day, all the time, but I get up to walk for 45 minutes every weekday, and I've started a 9:00 am water exercise class on Monday, Wednesday,… Continue reading Fifteen minute practice
I've been doing the same basic sequence for a couple of weeks now. It's the one I wrote about before, a combination of the Iyengar sciatica sequence with Sam Dworkis's Recovery Yoga added in. It's good, and I'm happy to be doing it, and I'm not bored. It just seems boring to write about it… Continue reading Boring, not boring
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