Research shows that 80% of Americans will experience low back pain at some point in their life. According to the Centers for Disease Control, an estimated 20% have chronic back pain and 8% have chronic back pain that will flare up at different times in life and interfere with normal activity and work. That’s a…
Ask most yogis and they will say that Savasana is either their most favorite yoga post or their most dreaded. For many people, lying still and doing nothing but breathe is an almost impossible task. However, Savasana is quite possibly the most important pose of all. Whether we’re doing a nice, flowy vinyasa, a sweaty,…
Vinyasa is my go-to style of yoga. Vinyasa links breath with movement—inhale/move, exhale/ move—that gradually leads the practitioner to a “peak” pose. When a teacher asks students to “take a vinyasa”, it also means to move through the transitional sequence of plank to chaturanga to upward-facing dog and then downward-facing dog. This transition resets the…
