I address the question “Is 48 too old to start Yoga?”. I’m pretty sure you know that my answer will be an immediate “no”. Will it help with weight loss? Sure, but first get some Restorative yoga in and find out where you’re at physically. The weight loss will come.
Sometimes we yogis miss very clear opportunities during our daily lives to take our practice off of the mat and place it firmly and prominently into our every day existence. It can be all too easy to become comfortable with how we view our practice and the world around us. Yoga provides a wonderful toolbox [...]
By my own admission, I’m certainly not the most amazing yogi in the world, and my better days of physicality are most likely behind me in a lot of ways, but I think that it’s important in times of moderate self-doubt to take pause and ask myself why do I do this. Why do I [...]
Proper form always comes before depth in a posture. Your depth within a posture will change from month to month, week to week, day to day, and during each unfolding moment within each posture as you find your edge, and work to expand it. But proper form is proper form: unchanging. During your yoga practice [...]
I found this on a Facebook post by a friend of mine, and I thought it was so powerful and accurate to where I am in my life right now that it would be worth reposting here on the blog…I’m sure that many people will be able to relate…enjoy. “Anything is one of a million [...]
So as beautiful as today is – and as good of a mood I am in – it will end by going to a funeral service for a dear friend who lost her 20 year old son in a car accident last week. He ran head on into a tree. There is nothing that I [...]
Happiness is not simply a state of arrival Happiness is not some “magical” place at which we arrive, and lasting Happiness can be difficult to obtain…without hard work that is. That’s not what you wanted to hear is it? The truth is, happiness is a discipline, a practice and a persistence in challenging yourself and [...]
Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop [...]
My compassion has been tested greatly in the last few days. From my reflections on this, it is plainly obvious that being compassionate is the much more difficult path than being angry and ill-tempered.
I just arrived home to sunny and insanely hot Florida after spending a busy week in New York City. It was a great yoga-filled week and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been to NYC, but this was one of the best weeks I’ve spent there yet (and the weather and restaurants were [...]
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