Mountain Pose – Yoga

Start  your Yoga practice with focus and attention. Be present. Mountain Pose is one of the most basic yoga poses for beginners.  Mountain Pose is a Standing yoga pose and is often the first posture to be learned. Many yoga practice sequences begin and end with Mountain Pose.  In sanskrit, mountain pose is called Tadasana. [...]

Yoga Upward Dog

Upward-Facing Dog – Urdhva Mukha Svanasana is commonly practiced in conjunction with downward facing dog. Start in Standing Mountain Pose – Tadasana. Bend Forward at the waist touching your hands to the floor about shoulder width apart (you can bend your knees here a bit if you’re not that flexible). With your hands firmly planted [...]

Yoga Sun Salutations

Sun Salutations are an act of gratitude. Gratitude to your life, your body, your spirit, your existence. Gratitude for the sun rising each day to warm you, to nourish life on the earth. Gratitude for the Divine union yoga offers. Sun Salutations give you the opportunity to be connected with light and your heart. You [...]

Too Much Thinking

Commentary on Too Much Thinking:  When you’re just thinking too much. When you wake up in the morning, when you go to bed at night what are you thinking about?  Are you thinking about the past or the future?  Are you worrying? Personally I’ve been there, and it comes and goes.  We all have. Our [...]

Yoga Wisdom

Yoga has a long history and development on its way to the western world. Yoga is an ancient practice with no confirmed date of origins, but stone seals found dating to 3000 B.C.E. depict yoga poses (asanas). The ancient sacred scriptures of Brahmanism – The Vedas are loosely dated as being written between 3000-1500 B.C.E. [...]