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The Room is Silent but for…
My friend Donna L and I are Tai Chi players. We are of the same age group and we started learning this art form together. We both struggle with the forms but find that we are enticed by its invitation to come back again and again to be seduced by its beauty and its mystery.
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What to say when guiding students in yoga poses
The last post discussed how to move into a pose using simple clear language as a guide. Today I would like to talk about what you say after you have guided your students into a pose. This is the phase that I think about as carving your way into the pose. The choice of words
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Yoga Movement Formula
Back to Yoga Teacher Talk Yoga movements occur at different levels. On one level the poses transition from from one position in space to another, For example, we can move from a supine (on the back) position to table position or from a seated position to a belly down orientation. Mountain Pose (tadasana), table pose (bharmanasana), sphinx
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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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