Yoga

This week during conference night those of us who don’t do conferences came up with the idea of plank exercise challenge. I was with the specials team (that is, the PE teacher, the science teacher, the art teacher and the music teacher) and we were being bored together as we handled the school book sale, […]

“How many minutes of pilates a day” and “is 20 minutes of pilates a day enough” are great questions for those of us who want to be fit. Because exercising is probably number one in my plan for having good health. Now I have to admit … I’ve only done Pilates once. It was offered

Bikram Choudhury was born 1944, in Calcutta, India. He is still today a yoga practitioner, guru, and once oversaw a vast network of yoga “Bikram Hot Yoga” studios. Like many star athletes, charges of financial misdeeds and sexual misconduct brought him unwanted attention and legal trouble. In 2018, a former employee successfully sued him for

So you’ve gotten past using a bath towel or even a beach towel for your hot yoga class. You want to buy the best hot yoga towel. Not a complete beginner anymore so you and want to choose a towel that complements your emerging and strengthening practice. I get you. I can explain the ins

I was minding my own business reading a surf blog when suddenly the author interjected negative sentiments about yoga, “a holistic discipline that combines physical postures and ethical principles to promote physical and spiritual well-being. It does very few of these things in my experience except breed a superior minded person with stretched out tendons,”

There are some studios that have rules, such as “instructors only in the first row …

Last week I announced that instead of going to counseling I was going to go to yoga to try to treat depression. I came to this plan totally on my own, without doing any research. I just remembered how in the past I felt much better by doing yoga. Actually, I remembered one specific time.

I have decided to return to yoga with a renewed commitment. And the reason I have returned is because I have been too … well subject to too much depression. I tried to address it by going back on Buproprion, an anti-depressant prescribed me 18 months ago and which I stopped taking a few months