Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ yoga dose ’

Last week as I was writing about my history with chronic pain, something dawned on me. I first started experiencing chronic pain about midway through my freshman year of college. What dawned on me is that this was only a few months after I started taking birth control pills. That connection probably wouldn’t mean...
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Our breath is our primary source of life-giving energy, and a powerful tool for healing. So why don’t we hear more from the medical community about how important our breath is to our overall health and vitality? Probably because, as of now, oxygen is still free, so there’s not much potential for profit. Does...
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I love the Goddess! After all, she is the divine source of our creative inspiration. The Goddess lives within all of us–men and women–as the intuitive, creative, receptive, feeling, and nurturing parts of ourselves. This is the essence of feminine energy, which we must cultivate in order to achieve balance between the masculine and...
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Bhramari Pranayama I’ve always felt a strong connection to bees. My name, Deborah, means “bee” in Hebrew. And I’ve been stung (initiated?) by them 3 times, once after having the following song lyric to Regina Specktor’s song On the Radio stuck in my head: “A million ancient bees, began to sting our knees.” And wouldn’t...
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I’m still feeling high off of a workshop I participated in Saturday with Katrina Rivers, called Dancing AS the Divine. The primary focus was exploring the divine masculine and feminine within each of us, and what’s been out of sync with these two energies for so long. It was such a moving experience that...
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If you’ve ever been to a yoga class, chances are you’ve chanted the mantra “Om” (or listened while the rest of the students chanted). It probably seemed like some sort of weird ritual to mark the beginning or end of the yoga practice. But there’s actually a lot more to explore with the healing...
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The sphinx is a mythical creature with the body of a lion and a human head. In traditional Indian lore, it is said to take away the sins of the devotees when they enter a temple, and to ward off evil in general. We can think of the mythical sphinx as a gatekeeper, or...
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With This Simple Spinal Twist “Freedom is strangely ephemeral.  It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.” ~William E. Simon In celebration of Independence day, I thought I would share this simple yoga posture (because I realize it’s a holiday and most of you are relaxing) called...
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Yoga Posture of the Week: Malasana or Squat Pose This posture is one of my favorites, as it is one of the most natural human body positions. Almost as soon as a child learns to walk, they learn to squat like this. Unfortunately, despite how natural this position is for our body, in western...
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If so, you may want to attend this open house for Austin-based Yoga Yoga Teacher Training.
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Thanks to some amazing new photos by Sparrow, I will now be featuring a yoga posture every week to help you learn the fundamentals of postural alignment, breath, and awareness that are the essential components of practicing yoga. Even if you only practice one posture for 2 or 3 minutes a day, you will...
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If you’ve ever been to a yoga class, or read anything about new-age spirituality or energy work, you’ve probably come across the term chakra. Chakra is the sanskrit word for “wheel,” and in yoga it refers to the vortices of energy in our bodies. There are seven major chakras (and countless minor ones) in...
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