Try asking someone if they would like to do yoga? Very often, their answers would be “Oh, I am not flexible”, “I am not physically fit”, “I am fat”, “I don’t want to break my bones!” or “I am too old for this”. The media especially social media has falsely
My journey of YOGA. I was first acquainted to Yoga when I was working as a part time receptionist during my university days. It was a Yoga studio which comes with a new age book store and an organic vegetarian cafe. “WHATEVER” was its name of the store or studio.
My journey into yoga started in 2009. The company I was then working for started to organize weekly yoga classes for its employees. Tired of the monotony of going to the gym, I decided to give yoga a try. My only motivation then was to look good in my wedding
I was first introduced to yoga at home and then in School in India. Despite my dad being such an ardent follower of yoga and a pupil Of Late BKS Iyengar, to me it wasn’t very appealing. However when we did have to choose in School between Yoga and Other
After I completed my very first yoga class 8 years ago, I thought I’d never want to do it again. The instructor didn’t care if I was a newbie, never asked if anyone had any prior injuries and neither did he do very much warm-up and the only pose I
Acro yoga , the yoga of trust !! I had a chance to do a workshop last year and after that I was hooked . I have never found any other yoga forms that has kept me laughing and happy from start to end , at least after the warm
Mirror, mirror on the wall…….. The perils of admiring one’s mirror image are well documented, many will be familiar with the ancient greek myth of Narcissus and his fate. Upon seeing his own reflection in a pool of water, not realising it was his own, he fell in love with
For me, yoga started as just any bodily exercises. I started slowly with one class a week and it soon increased to twice and I started classes on the weekends too. My first exposure to yoga was Bikram style, 24 postures in a hot room with super sweaty yogis. I
“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.” I used to run & skip everyday, until my knees started feeling sharp pains. So I swam, until I got really annoyed at having to cancel once it rains, especially in the rainy season. My yoga journey started
Who would have thought that a (relatively) simple pose, like the Uttanasana or Standing Forward Bend, could work and stretch various different muscles in the body? In this pose, the joint actions are hip flexion, knee extensions, and mild spinal flexion. For people with tighter hamstrings, there will be more spinal
