Author: cricket85
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Ganesha’s Inspiration
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.” ~Mark Twain In most western yoga classes (and I teach in a western class) the concern and emphasis is placed mostly on teaching the physical poses and in many venues this is all that is expected…
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Caesura – What is it and why is it important in Yoga and Tai Chi
The Merriam Webster word of the day for July 16 was “caesura” pronounced sih-ZYUR-uh. Caesura means a break or interruption. Caesuras are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse. We often need these little stops to set the cadence and phrasing of natural speech into the metrical scheme. This word intrigued me because I…
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Moving Gracefully from Position to Position During a Yoga Session
Have you ever been in a yoga class where you are instructed to move from supine to standing, standing to kneeling, kneeling to prone, prone to standing, then down again to your knees. You get the gist. You are bobbing up and down like a yoyo. You begin to forget where you are or what…
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13 Tips on How to Find Ease in a Yoga Pose
These are emotional times. I awoke yesterday morning to hear of yet another two deaths of my black citizens by police officers. The FBI director was being interrogated concerning Hillary Clinton’s emails during her term as Secretary of State. My tai chi teacher is dealing with life threatening cancer and several of my own students are fighting…
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Dialoguing with Resistance
Ever feel like you are fighting yourself in a yoga pose? I have heard many students say that they will not attend yoga classes that include poses with long holds. They tell me the long holds are too difficult even if the pose itself is not. But what is so difficult about holding a pose…
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I honor that place in you…Strength, friendship, humility.
I like ritual in my classes. It adds a structure and a serious tone to the class. In my yoga classes I always start with the ringing of a Tibetan bowl. I end class with Namaste. In my tai chi classes I start with the ringing of my Tibetan bowl and the formal greeting of…
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