I stick my butt out. I don't mean to, but somewhere along the way in high school, I learned to stand up straight by lifting my ribcage up and forward…
At the yoga center where I sometimes teach in New York City, a woman called wanting to register for a four-week introduction to yoga course. She asked to speak to…
Managing a love-hate relationship with wheel pose Wheel was always one of the poses that came easily to me in yoga. Despite my internally rotated hips limiting me in hip…
You’ve probably attended a yoga class. Practiced prenatal yoga while pregnant. Maybe you even took your baby to a “mommy & me” yoga session or two after your little one arrived. But…
I’m sorry my yoga offends you……. There is a divide in the yoga community right now and I feel like I have one foot on either side of a great…
In order to practice yoga, you don’t need much in terms of equipment or space. Enough room to lay down a mat is more than sufficient. But the environment that…
You feel heavy, dull, tired. Maybe it's gray outside (or, if you live in the pacific northwest, maybe it's been gray and dark for weeks). Perhaps a life event (sickness, heartbreak,…
I honestly don't know where I'd be if the practice of yoga hadn't entered into my life when it did. I was unknowingly walking around in a perpetual state of…
Gil Hedley has been leading instructional and inspirational human dissections for over twenty years and is a thought leader in integrative human anatomy. A self-described "somanaut" who helps others to…
It's US Thanksgiving, time for turkey and thankfulness! But you don't have to be slurping stuffing (or even be celebrating the holiday, oh my Canadian brethren) to take this as…
Yoga is a low-impact form of exercise that still gives you an excellent workout. It helps you to relieve tension, build strength and relax your mind. Wondering whether to take…
Crow pose (bakasana) is the entrance to more challenging arm balances. (Check out this video on my favorite way to get into the pose.) When practicing crow pose, you need…
