Ask Yoga Today – Opening Your Shoulders for Advanced Poses:
Hi Neesha,
During your class we practiced the royal one-legged pigeon pose and I found that my most restricted area was my upper shoulders. Do you have any guidance how to encourage tight shoulders to reach back when the elbows are up? Thank you! ...
Everything you need to know about yoga - the ULTIMATE guide: I've prepared this guide from information gathered from various resources that seemed most credible to me. I hope this information is shared as much as possible and the joy of yoga is spread worldwide. As more people awaken through the simple yoga te...
Can Meditation Reduce a Wandering Mind?: Building on a wave of compelling new research suggesting meditation practice positively affects brain structure and function, researchers at Yale University have found meditation practice to reduce activity in brain regions associated with mind wande...
Finding the Good:
No matter what happens in life, there's always savasana. It may sound funny, but it's true. And it applies to life on and off the yoga mat.
Years ago, I attended a vigorous flow yoga class in a heated room. I wasn't used to practicing in a heated ro...
On inferior quality yoga mats: For yogis, few accessories are as ubiquitous as the yoga mat -- that precious strip of padding that serves as a cushion, a territory marker and even a rolled-up status symbol, conveying one's membership in the yoga tribe.
But are yoga mats de rigueu...