by stephtenceryoga | Jun 7, 2017 | Asana, Assessment, Personal, Practice
Picture this: you go to a yoga class and it’s amazing. After class, you feel refreshed, clear, invigorated. You think, ‘wow, I wish I could feel like this all the time’. So, while it’s still fresh in your mind, you jot down the sequence. The next day you go and...
by stephanie | May 22, 2016 | Asana, Practice, Videos
Over the course of the last month, I’ve been doing some writing for Village Living Magazine, a community-based publication specifically focused on building voices for communities. They have a rich and informative health and wellness section to their online...
by stephanie | May 3, 2015 | Asana, Personal, Photos, Practice
A funny thing happened to me the other day. I approached the mat with the intention of practicing backbends. I spent much of the morning looking forward to a vigorous and uplifting afternoon practice. Then, as I settled onto my mat, it was not long before I realized...
by stephanie | Jan 17, 2015 | Asana, Personal, Philosophy, Practice
In my early days as a yoga student, one of my first teachers said something that has always stuck with me. He said that as beginners, we come to yoga with legs and arms. Then, as we progress in our practice we no longer have just legs and arms, but we have an upper...
by stephanie | Jul 7, 2014 | Asana, Practice
I’ve always been acutely aware of how different my right side is from my left. Early on in my practice, I noticed that in most of my standing poses, going to the right comes more smoothly for me. For example, in Utthita Trikonasana and Utthita Parsvakonasana, I can...
by stephanie | Mar 6, 2014 | Asana, Personal, Practice
“Yoga is a mirror, to look at ourselves from within.” — BKS Iyengar When I began taking yoga classes, the teachers would often tell me not to hyper-extend my knees. I’m quite flexible and several of my joints can be overstretched, particularly my...
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