Archive for October, 2009
Posted on October 23, 2009 - by Jennifer
Can yoga help you kick ass?
People often talk about how yoga saved their lives in a figurative sense but this NY writer and yoga teacher used her yoga training to defend herself from a brutal attack.  Interesting perspective on why yoga matters off the mat.
Read it here: The Art of Defying Death [nytimes.com]
Posted on October 23, 2009 - by Jennifer
I ‚ô° Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga Teacher Training, Class Photo, 2009
I describe how studying Yin Yoga with Paul and Suzee Grilley transformed my yoga practice in an article for Quiet Mind Yoga in Washington D.C.
http://www.quietminddc.com/yin.html
Like many, I was initially drawn to the most dynamic and complex asana sequences, the most challenging arm balances and inversions, that feeling of exhaustion after multiple chaturangas. If a teacher put me in a pose and then went to adjust another student and left me there in a long hold, I grew resentful. I struggled to sit through meditation and fidgeted in Savasana. But, after several years of practice, things started to change
Posted on October 23, 2009 - by Jennifer
What the heck is Yin Yoga?
In case you’ve been wondering what the heck this Yin Yoga stuff is, this article offers a good, clear introduction to the philosophy and practice of Yin Yoga.¬† It’s written by one of Yin Yoga’s founders, Paul Grilley who I had the chance to study with this summer.
There are two principles that differentiate yin practice from more yang approaches to
yoga: holding poses for at least several minutes and stretching the connective tissue
around a joint.
Read it here: http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/580?print=1
