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Top 12 Benefits of Yoga - Supported by Science

Here's the quick list, scroll down for explanations... Most people know that yoga improves flexibility, strength, and body awareness and that it relieves stress and anxiety. Let’s look at 12 of the many benefits of yoga in greater depth. 1. Yoga improves flexibility and balance A key part of yoga involves enabling you to move […]

Why a Steady Breath in Yoga

I focus so much on harnessing an even, steady breath in our yoga practice, because steady breath makes you stronger, calmer, patient, wiser and better able to cope with challenges in daily life, because when we practice maintaining a steady, even breath throughout our yoga practice a few times per week, we become able to […]

The Alchemy of Breath & Movement

Ashtanga yoga is a breath-based movement practice. The shape isn't really the thing, the shapes have benefits for our musculoskeletal system and our organs, but to truly experience the life-changing benefits of the practice we need to unify steady breath and movement. In Ashtanga Yoga our breath has several aspects:- Unifying bodyWhen we breathe the body responds […]

The Fascial Body

One of the beautiful things about yoga is that we consider the body (and indeed body-mind and environment) as one wonderous integrated system. This is different from the way we are often encouraged to think of the body, mind and environment. In the western world we often think of the mind as one thing, the […]

Soft & Strong - Like Water

'Soft and strong like water' I often use this phrase when teaching. This is the quality we are seeking to embody when practicing Ashtanga Yoga, soft and strong - like water. The balance between ease and effort, rooted yet expansive, or in Patanjali's words: 'Sthira sukham asanam' (a steady, comfortable posture). We are seeking strength […]

Aparigraha

The 8 limbs of yoga include the Yamas and the last of those yamas is Aparigraha, meaning non-greed, non-covetousness, and non-attachment. We can be greedy about all sorts of things; yoga postures, knowledge, money - these are all outcomes rather than processes or actions. Aparigraha teaches us to not be attached to outcomes, instead it is suggested […]

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