Nervous About Teaching, even after 30 years
I was already starting to worry about the weather a week before I was going to teach the FREE yoga class in Prospect Park. If the weather turned out …
Category: Teaching Sequence
The Wave
The powerful movement and sequence of a wave is used to create a rippling effect in the body by mimes, break dancers and even ballet dancers (think of the …
Sense Your Self
The lesson of this warm up is to sense our self without trying to emulate someone else’s ‘shape’. We go as far as we need to experience our sensation. …
Clearing A Path
To begin our practice we must carve out time for ourselves in our schedule
Anchoring A Buoy
When we anchor ourselves firmly into ground, we can allow our heart a feeling of buoyancy. This warm up begins with releasing the inner legs downward, all the way. …
Sun Salutes… Some Standard and Some Not
This article originally appeared on YogaCityNYC. As central as the Sun Salute is to so many practices, it seems as if each yoga school, or tradition, teaches its own …
Hips Square, again
Many yoga poses require us to keep our hips squarely facing front. This direction is something that we have all heard so many times and have done so many …
Feel Your Prana
This warm up begins lying prone, on my belly. I lay down and relax in a prone Savasana.
Locking Not Leaking
In this warm up, the wall is your partner. The idea is to prevent energy from leaking through our own physical patterns and misalignments. We use Jalandhara Bandha (Chin …
Twist and Shout
This warm up begins standing so that we are up and ready to go. It is also a change from how many yoga classes begin – with sitting or …
