After all the talk about the Yoga Sutras I feel the need (maybe you do too) for some comic relief. So who else to turn to than JP Sears and his video about the importance of Yoga Photos for Instagram. My own yoga pictures do not ever rarely always turn out like I imagined them in my head. Here are few of them that I find quite funny,…
It’s the last day of the year and I went for a swim to wash myself clean of 2016! Bring on the New Year’s Eve, the two rings of 23:59 on this Island with a horizontal timezone across the Capital and all of 2017! Tallenna…
…I took an evening flow yoga class, taught in Greek and in Russian. It’s always good to explore what’s out there. It was a nice class, with music too. …Finland had her 99th Independence Day. I celebrated it at a reception where I met another yoga teacher. We talked about our respective teacher trainings and how we both like a slow practise. …”My” Teacher Anna Zorzou is on…
Yoga can be very beneficial during pregnancy for several reasons. In addition to the “general” (in the absence of a better word…) benefits I talked about earlier here, here’s a few pregnancy specific points that are interesting: An asana practise can be very grounding both physically and emotionally: It can literally improve balance as the centre of gravity of the body shifts during pregnancy. It also offers hightened…
To practise yoga, you really do not need anything else but the willingness to be present in the now and the yoga mat as we know it is a rather new Western invention. However it can bring a new aspect to the practise by creating a space for your meditation and adding cushioning and stability for the asana. These days there is a wide range of mats available,…