Category: About Yoga
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No Yoga and No Writing: More Twitter Followers
Amy, As you know I haven’t been practicing yoga nor blogging because of flu-like symptoms. Strangely enough, my Twitter following (@garykahn) has increased. A yoga teacher said that while I’m getting better I should take care of myself and be okay with not practicing yoga and not writing. How bad was my yoga? Would my…
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Au revoir Beach Yoga 2012
Tammy, Tropical Storm Sandy, who changed her name to Frankenstorm for Halloween, left the South Florida coast somewhat submerged so yesterday’s beach yoga class was washed away. Beach yoga classes are important to my psyche. After a long week, I, like most, look forward to doing fun stuff during the weekend. When friends won’t call…
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Heading to the Yoga Bar
Tammy, The other day I went to yoga at a gym. After class started the teacher said that later on we would be going to the bar. “Cool,” I thought. The class and teacher would chat and get to know each other. That would build the yoga community. This was the first class I ever…
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Yoga on a Bicycle?
Tammy, This week I watched some videos online about yoga on a bicycle (click here to view). Yoga teacher Kelli Refer, who lived in Colorado (a US mecca for cyclists) and now hails from Seattle, demonstrates some super yoga poses for cyclists. Side stretching while riding works on the torso and tests balance as you…
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Yoga Blog’s First Birthday
Tammy, This is the one year anniversary of my blog. I wonder what posts people have liked the best. I guess yesterday was a good example of my yoga experience over the past year. It was raining while I was driving to an outdoor yoga class and I was wondering why I was going. I…
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iYoga
Tammy, For various reasons I didn’t go to my usual yoga classes this weekend. It made me think about habits and how to use them to change some of life’s patterns. After all, one weekend away from yoga and I could abandon going at all. If I don’t go to yoga next weekend, that’s no…
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My Yogi Name
Tammy, I’m thinking that maybe I should take a yoga name. What do you think of these? From the bhujangasana pose I was thinking of the nickname bhuj. It’s fun, different, cool, and people will remember something about me. From the paschimottanasana pose I could call myself Paschi. It rhymes with Kashi so maybe I can…
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Valentine’s Day Yoga
Tammy, Today one celebrates Valentine’s Day and exchanges romantic gifts with his/her special person. What does everybody do for his or her self? No, I’m not referring to anything pornographic. In class you generate an atmosphere of silliness, acceptance, and wacky places where we’re supposed to put our various body parts which you call poses. …
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A Little Yoga Help Never hurts, right?
Tammy, In class recently I saw that one of the other students has a mat with diagrams of the poses on it. Do you think I should get one of these cheat-sheet mats? I was thinking about looking over at the teenage girl’s mat during class to see the pictures. Then I realized this may…
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Yoga Goes Big Time?
Tammy, I know something is different when I’m at the airport newsstand and I see the word Yogi on the front of Sports Illustrated. I think to myself, what mainstream sport realizes that opening the hips may be good for player productivity? Not so fast Raja. The sports world isn’t openly that progressive. It’s an…