My Yoga Online has posted a new yoga video featuring Maya Fiennes: Kundalini Yoga to Detox and Destress. Maya Fiennes uses movement, breath, mantras, and chants to fortify the body’s stress defenses, energize the body, and relax the mind.
About Maya Fiennes: Maya draws on her talent as a musician and performer to offer a unique style of yoga and meditation for modern living. Based on the style of yoga called Kundalini, which Yogi Bhajan first brought to the West in the 1960s, Maya’s classes are fun, uplifting, and above all inspirational. She runs regular yoga workshops and retreats at home and abroad.
I am an extremely anxious person by nature, and I feel that if I don’t learn a natural and healthy way to control my nerves, not only will I live in a shell my whole life, but potentially go to the grave earlier.
Can anyone recommend me a meditation book that will knock my socks off?
We just love hearing news about schools introducing kids to yoga. And it seems that Canadian schools really understand the many benefits that yoga practice can offer students and are leading the way in making time on the mat an accepted part of a curriculum. Now, thanks to Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Board of Education, Vancouver’s school district 41 in is approving yoga for school credit. Other Canadian schools also offer high school credit. We want to know: Do schools in your area offer school credit for yoga?
My Yoga Online has posted a new article by Melina Meza : Bring On The Spring. Melina gives you tips and ideas on how to prepare your mind and body for this upcoming season and how to embrace spring with lightening your load.
Enjoy tips and ideas on how to adapt your yoga asana practice and diet to accommodate the beauty unfolding in spring. Although the weather can really be hit or miss these days, there is enough proof in nature to confirm that spring is just around the corner, close enough to consider shifting your diet and yoga practice to complement the season.
Lighten your load
It makes sense that many of us are drawn to the idea of cleansing and purging this time of year—it’s time to lighten our load. Spring is really a time to THRIVE and it’s difficult to thrive if you feel weighted down by your inner or outer world. In order to feel your best, perhaps a little cleanse is in order to get rid of any extra winter weight, household clutter, or material possessions that keep you in the past or limit your freedom in the moment.
Here are a few diet adaptations that will help prepare your body and mind for spring:
• Decrease heavy, oily, cold, fatty foods.
• Increase spicy, bitter, and astringent foods (arugula, mustard greens, kale, strawberries, blueberries, and sprouts).
• Increase your vitamin, nutrient and chlorophyll intake with early dark green vegetables and sprouts.
• In general, eat light and eat local.
About Melina Meza:Melina Meza, BS Nutrition, 500-RYT, has been exploring the art and science of yoga and nutrition for over 16 years. She combines her knowledge of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, whole foods nutrition and healthy living into a unique style called Seasonal Vinyasa Yoga. Seasonal Vinyasa Yoga emphasizes the healing teachings of the ancient yogis and inspires students to adapt their asana practice, diet and lifestyle routines to better harmonize with the seasonal changes occurring in nature. Melina is the lead teacher at Seattle’s 8 Limbs Yoga Centers and is also the author of Art of Sequencing an innovative book that includes 34 unique yoga sequences and over 1,500 photos offering creative inspiration for experienced yoga teachers as well as fresh instructional ideas to jump start a home practice. More information about Melina and her offerings can be found at www.melinameza.com.
A REAL-TIME CHALLENGING SEQUENCE [IN 4 PARTS] TO BUILD STAMINA, TONE THE BODY, BURN CALORIES AND GET YOUR CARDIO IN! TRY WHAT YOU CAN, AND MOVE TOWARDS WEIGHT LOSS AND WHOLE BODY TRANSFORMATION, TODAY! With Sadie Nardini, Director of East West Yoga in NYC, author of the “Road Trip Guide to the Soul”, and Cretor of the “Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga Power Hour” DVD, both available on Amazon.com now! For more, visit www.sadienardini.com!
After I do yoga I feel really good. Music sounds better, food tastes better, I am altogether a kinder and happier person. I have discussed this with others and I am not alone. Does anyone have a reason for or explanation for this?
www.acroyoga.com Acro Yoga-acroyoga performance June 2004 in Montreal at Victoria Hall, with Eugene Poku and Jessica Goldberg. Music: Sri Durga by DJ chebisabbah www.acroyoga.com
when i sit with my back unsupported, such as in a position like crossed legs(indian style) or lotus position, my lower(usually) back begins hurting within several minutes. this is obviousley a big distraction from my meditation practice, but i really like the idea of using this position for meditation. specifically, what is causing this or what can i do to fix it?
I decided it does not make a point in lifting weight not that it is not effective but of time constraints…Calisthenics i can almost do anywhere and anytime.. Will calisthenics and some yoga i learned get me a toned and defined body
Everyone’s favorite supermodel, Brazilian beauty Gisele Bundchen, practices Anusara Yoga. She talks about how yoga kept her fit during her pregnancy in the April issue of Vogue. You can read part of the article here. In it, you’ll learn that her son Benjamin Rein Brady was delivered at home in a water birth, her new line of natural skincare Sejaa (“seja” means “to be” in Portugese) is launching today, and that Gisele really does seem to have her heart in the right place when it comes to her humanitarian and environmental ideals. Go Gisele!
There was a guy on here the other day asking what kind of fur his meditation mat should be made of. This surprised me because I had no idea that meditation mats were made of fur. Is this usual?
My Yoga Online has posted a new yoga tip video featuring Jesse Enright: Yoga and the Neck Smart Yoga Tip. Enjoy this new Yoga Anatomy workshop in which Jesse explores the nuances of the neck and how it relates to your Yoga practice.
About Jesse Enright: Jesse Enright has been a student of Yoga for eleven years and an instructor for the past nine. He began his studies with Sivananda Yoga before exploring the more dynamic Ashtanga Vinyasa, the detailed alignment of Iyengar and the comprehensive intelligence of Vijnana Yoga.
My Yoga Online has posted an informative new pose presented by Dr. Robin Armstrong: Utkatasana Yoga Pose. Learn more about the benefits, contraindications, modifications, and cautions in doing this yoga posture safely.
Benefits of Utkatasana (Chair Pose)
*Strengthens the hip flexor muscles: rectus femoris, psoas
*Strengthens the quadriceps in the front of the thighs, hamstrings in the back of the thighs, adductor muscles of the inner thighs, gluteus muscles of the hip
*Strengthens and stretches calf muscles
*Opens chest and shoulders
*Improves range of motion in ankles
*Increases proprioception (sense of position in space) in the feet
*Traditionally thought to stimulate the abdominal organs and heart
About Dr. Robin Armstrong
Dr. Robin Armstrong is a Vancouver chiropractor and yoga instructor. Robin blends her western knowledge gained from her experience as a chiropractor, with the ancient eastern knowledge passed through generations of yoga teachers. Robin’s classes emphasize safety, breath, alignment, and movement, while teaching students ways to strengthen and lengthen their bodies to handle the stresses of our modern lifestyle. If you are coming to her as a patient, expect to be prescribed yoga! Learn more about Dr. Armstrong at www.stayactive.ca
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Chloe Sevigny Loves Yoga Actress Chloe Sevigny must really love yoga because she is talking it up all over the place! We aren't sure what style she practices or where she places her mat. But this winner of a Golden Globe award for best supporting actress in a TV series graces the April cover of Elle UK and talks about her new three-times-a-week yoga practice, which makes her feel "strong" and "limber." (She also credits yoga with boosting her libido.) In a recent interview with NPR, Sevigny talks about how yoga helps her with her scoliosis so she feels straightened out. Check it out: Our friends at YogaDork found some morsels of the interview here. Which celebrities have you noticed taking up the practice of yoga?
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell signed a bill last night that would protect yoga schools in Virginia from being regulated by the State Council for Higher Education, which oversees other vocational trainings. Some people view this as a legal victory; others think state regulation would benefit students in teacher training programs. What do you think?
