Tag: Be Yoga
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Yoga on the breath
Tammy, The other day you caught me grimacing during a pose and told me to breathe and smile. Why is breathing given such a big focus in yoga? When you’re concentrating on your breath, you fail to take life for granted. You fail to worry that you’re doing triangle pose wrong and you fail to…
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Taking Yoga Seriously
Tammy, The other night in class you came over to my mat and looked at me and asked, “How did you get into that mess from what I demonstrated and described?” You laughed at me. I laughed at me. Yeah, I try as hard as I can, but come on, yoga’s funny stuff. Let’s take…
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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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Yoga is for narcissists
Tammy, So I’ve had some sort of virus for a while now. It has forced the cancellation of a trip to New York, interfered with work, and halted yoga classes. I’ve resorted to looking online at yoga things; one might call me a yoga lurker. No, not dirty stuff, just compelling like a crack addict…
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Does Yoga Affect Driving? Maybe.
Tammy, I was on my way to the beach recently. Being that we are in South Florida and it was the holiday season, a lot of tourists from cold weather states had the same idea. The traffic was heavy but not quite reaching LA Freeway levels. Rather than inch my way forward at every stop,…
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Hey, What’s Yoga Doing Knocking Me Down?
Tammy, While out of town last week I took a couple of yoga classes. I was the big dog as I was the youngest and most flexible. So today I felt quite confident and went to your class. As usual, you were serene and glowing. It was a small class so you announced that we…