Fully Experience Your Yoga Poses

Yoga is like the proverbial onion: it is simple on the outside, but within the many translucent layers lies a deep elusive core. For your yogic pleasure, here are 5 micro-layers for you to explore and peel away in your asana practice. You can apply these 5 interconnected skins to any and every yoga pose you practice.

Too Hot for Yoga? Get Cool with Yin Yoga!

Here is how you can practice yoga through the hot summer months — and stay cool while doing it. Begin a yin yoga practice, which will help cool your body and release extra heat built up by the sizzling summer sun. Yin yoga has a cooling effect on the body and provides a deep stretch for your joints and connective tissue (fascia).

Start Your Own Yoga Journal

Here are a few starting points for your yoga journal. Don’t force your writing. Much like forcing your yoga poses does not help you deepen them, forcing your yoga journaling will just lead to frustration. You should be calm and relaxed after shivasana so try to maintain this state of mind while you journal at the end of each practice. Relax and let your thoughts and words flow.

Let Your Yoga Dance!

Yoga should be fun. We run around and work hard all day, worried and stressed-out. The last thing we need is to bring this stress onto our yoga mats. Yoga can be an art form in many ways – a space for creative expression and a source for constructive personal release and awakening. In short, yoga can be fun, if you approach it with the right outlook.

The Art of Yoga Multitasking

What if I told you that combining yoga techniques, in the same amount of practice time and with minimal extra effort, could yield incredible results? The art of yoga multitasking is about adding value and depth to your yoga practice without adding any more time. When you combine yoga techniques, which are usually taught and practised separately, you are also combining the benefits of these ancient actions, and their effects are exponentially increased.

Break Your Yoga Habits

We are creatures of habit. In many ways we can thrive from routine and the feeling of control that it brings. This shows up in our day to day life and in how we practice yoga. Yet, as we know, control is an illusion, and if we can practice being OK outside of its comfortable confines, we can more easily deal with traumatic life events.

The Perfect Yogi Makes Mistakes

It’s alright to laugh at ourselves, and it’s very important to see how serious we take things — how judgmental we can be. Soften your ego, embrace the places in your yoga practice that you struggle with, and compassionately let your practice grow.