Yoga and Longevity On The Court Wayward jock – it’s a technical term describing me. I grew up playing games on the streets of New York City. The quiet tree-lined cul de sac outside my Brooklyn apartment was a natural arena for the alternating games of stickball, football, roller hockey, basketball, handball and [...]
My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat I’ve always been kind of embarrassed by how much I need my yoga teachers to tell me what a great job I’m doing. It’s not a job after all, it’s yoga. Not that I don’t love to be challenged, corrected, adjusted, egged on, pushed or even [...]
A few days before my first yoga New Year, my teacher asked us to make yoga New Year’s resolutions. Instantly, and uncharacteristically not even taking the three dark days till New Year’s to mull it over, I resolved to get good at jump ups. And I have been resolving to get good at jump ups [...]
(From The Spanish Article: Sumergiéndote En Yoga) *Please note that in order to preserve the intention of the author this article is not a word for word translation of Sumergiéndote en Yoga. Why Practice? Whatever might have brought you to it, you are about to take your first yoga class, or you’ve already started, and [...]
The Importance of Resting and Breathing Fitness buffs and everyday gym-goers often work out with the mindset of “more is more.” Many Type-A people who attend yoga classes are often seen leaving before final relaxation (savasana), stripping themselves of the most important part of the overall experience. Savasana is the gold nugget, the eye in [...]
Learning From Injury to Find New Points of Balance There was a moment during my first week post-knee surgery that I noticed something dramatically different in the way my body felt and responded than what I had been accustomed to my entire life. The combination of coming up against an injury and taking my first [...]
Core transformation: What better way to get motivated and conquer that last set of sit-ups, than in a full room where competition bares its fangs setting aside the humility needed to stop while others persist? This was my inner monologue accompanying my 6:30 A.M. arrival at the first session of Psalm Isadora’s three-week intensive dedicated [...]
I was settling into my end-of-class lotus, feeling so grateful for my yoga practice, ready for a little oming. But no. The teacher asked us to mentally list three things we were grateful for. And I panicked. Because I’ve quit gratitude lists. It's not that I’m an ingrate. I thank people all the [...]
Practice Pages: Meditation Three-Minute Kundalini Yoga Techniques To Repaint The Blues, Reduce Stress And Negativity And Increase Joy “Your house is on fire, you’d better come with me,” a colleague said as he interrupting my meeting. I stood up in shock; surely he was joking. I had just been home for lunch and I quickly recollected [...]
Yoga is like a gateway drug. At least it was for me. One day I was opening my hips and the next thing I knew I was opening my mind. Downward-facing dog led to chakra meditations, led to psychic flashes, led to pendulums, remote energy healing, DNA activation and now I find myself a full-blown [...]