Yoga & Tai Chi

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Category: Yoga

  • The Symbol of Yoga and the Symbol of Tai Chi: What do they represent, and are they helpful tools for teaching?

    I am always looking for ways to inspire my students and myself. Chanting AUM has been an integral part of my yoga experience and the yin/yang symbol is becoming an integral part of how I do my tai chi.  What do each of these symbols represent?  What is their purpose is our endeavors to keep…

  • Who Does Chair Yoga Serve?

    For two years now we have been trying to build up a Chair Yoga program at the studio where I teach.  It has been a slow process.  The first class started with not one person registering.  Slowly, slowly we are building this program.  Today’s class had nine participants and being a senior was not the…

  • Who is regulating the Yoga World?

    Years ago when I started practicing yoga there was little or no regulation of yoga teachers.  Yoga practitioners just decided that they knew enough to teach and hung out a shingle and became a teacher.   In the 1990’s things began to change.  It was the era of credentialing.  In 1997 the Yoga Alliance came into…