Don’t Read in Bed
Your habit puts your neck at risk! One of the sweetest moments at the end of a long day is crawling into bed with a book. This wonderful moment …
Category: Yoga Teachers: Shine and Refine
Morning Stiff Neck Pain?
Don’t try to stretch it out. Neck muscles sometimes spasm because they are overstretched! Ouch, you can’t move your neck. What to do? Stiff Neck Massage Tip: Put …
Finding Neutral for Your Neck
The curve of the neck develops after birth as we lift our head up to look around us and for some milk to drink. This desire for sustenance and …
Stiff Neck? Try the Bobble-Headed Bunny Move
Waking up with a stiff neck, the feeling of restriction and lack of motion is awful. It really makes you want to stretch. Don’t! Stretching does not cure …
Honesty
May 21, 2012 I had a student who came to my class regularly for a while. During that time, I felt that Down Dog was not really an appropriate …
Building Compassion
April 23 How do you express your compassion? – Through my voice. Volume and tone can have a powerful effect. – Being calm & centered in yourself. Then you …
When Our Students Say ‘I Can’t’
April 16 What to say (do or feel) when our students believe that they lack the ‘appropriate’ range of motion and say that they’ll never be able to do …
Teaching Poses We Cannot Yet Do?
April 9 Do we need to be able to do every yoga pose that we teach? * One teacher said that she mostly avoids teaching the poses that she …
Does Therapeutic = Feel Good?
April 2 If something is therapeutic, does that mean it feels good? *One teacher said that she followed the ‘no pain no gain’ philosophy. If something is therapeutic, it …
Shine & Refine – Listening
Monday, March 26 Buddha said – (Anguttara Nikaya III 248): There are five advantages of listening to the dharma. What five? One hears things not heard before, clarifies things …
