Breathwork
This community class is for all levels, for beginner to advance. We will focus on the glute strength, hip mobility, and breathwork to improve your posture and facilitate ease in your body. It is perfect to do after ankle and feet injuries, since all exercises will be modifiable if you cannot stand on your feet or use your ankles.
Read MoreIn the past, I wrote about compassion and loving kindness practices to support coming home. In case you didn’t know, these practices are part of a larger collection of buddhist virtues, called Brahmavihara. In pali, brahma means god or divine; vihara means abode. The brahmavihara are known as the “four immeasurables” in Sanskrit or “infinite minds” in Chinese. These virtues can be found in early buddhist texts and non-buddhist literature, like the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali. Brahmavihara includes the following four virtues…
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Last week, lots of folks were talking about using the breath to alleviate anxiety associated with the elections. As a yoga teacher, these recommendations made me feel a little antsy, because breath work can sometimes retrigger people's unprocessed trauma stored in the body. My desire to decrease harm in breathing practices, inspired me to write a little bit about precautions and safe practices in breath work techniques from a yogi perspective.
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