Dear Amelia, Remember, yoga is not about achieving the poses. What we should aim for is alignment – once you are in the right posture and alignment, with practice, the pose will come naturally. So if you want to tell if a yoga teacher is good or not, ask him/her
How well do you know yourself? Take 10 mins to journal and think about this: How do you define yourself? How do others define you? How do you want others to define you? How do you view the world? Svadhyaya, the fourth Niyama of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, means ‘self-study.’ The
A few years back, i began to feel a tightness in my right calf muscle, and some tension in the sole of my right foot, especially after hiking or a long day’s walk. I didn’t know why. But i found our recently in the yoga class that it may be
The Science of Yogic Breathing Did you know? Yogic breathing stimulates salivary secretion. Saliva has so many compounds. It is not just a digestive fluid. It has proteins, hormones, growth factors and so on – one of them was nerve growth factor. So what? The compounds in the saliva can be:
