Starting a Yoga Journey: Committing to meditation
For the beginning meditator, the first thing to ensure satisfaction is to find a way to sit alert and calm, the back of your body a strong tower supporting a…
Starting a Yoga Journey: Picking up the practice later in life
The practice of yoga has been in my life off and on for 40 years. Currently it’s on! I found a great teacher who listens to my concerns and is…
Starting a Yoga Journey: Getting in the habit
For some of us, yoga is a little too much like meditation. There’s not enough cardio, we aren’t fighting gravity to overcome heavy objects and there’s a lot of slow talk and heavy breathing. Making time to attend class, or even turn on 12 minutes of YouTube, seems like the last thing we should be doing in a world full of deadlines and commitments. We can’t spend our time doing nothing. We need bigger, better, faster, more….
Starting a Yoga Journey: Your first day at hot yoga
Congratulations! You’ve taken the leap into yoga’s hottest style. Strange as it may seem, sweating and bending in a studio heated to at least 95 degrees Fahrenheit may very well…
Starting a Yoga Journey: Forget about the “perfect shape”
“There is no such thing as alignment in yoga,” she said. My initial response was to think, “What does she mean ‘there is no such thing as alignment in yoga’? I am an ‘alignment-based’ instructor, for God’s sake!”
Starting a Yoga Journey: 6 first steps
So you’re ready to launch your yoga practice! Before you get overwhelmed by the many different kinds of yoga, spend a bunch of cash trying each studio, or worse, are turned off by a class that’s completely wrong for you, let’s take a beat and devise your perfect yoga path.
Starting a Yoga Journey: Embrace the beginner’s mind
In this new series, YogaIowa will address the uncertainties that arise when one first steps onto a mat, from studio etiquette to finding the discipline that’s best for you.