Tag: yoga yoga
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Yoga Chatting
Tammy, Recently I went to yoga class and there were people hanging out chatting before, during, and afterward. I started to wonder why I don’t chat with others when I go to class. Let’s see, first, most of the students are women and they seem to know each other. What would I say? Where did…
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Yoga Games
Tammy, You know the swimming pool game Marco Polo? What if yoga teachers played a similar game called pada gustasana? I kinda like the rhythm, pada gustasana pada gustasana. How ’bout Whispering Down the Lane sahaja bhujangasana and see what the last person…
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Ominous Yoga
Tammy, Sunday night I went to the beach for a yoga class. Isn’t that a cool way to finish a weekend? As I was driving to the beach I could see a big black cloud just north of where our class was going to be held. It had been raining most of the afternoon around…
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In Yoga is it judging or helping?
Tammy, So I arrive in your class one day. There is a guy there and I hear him happy that another guy (me) will be in the class. I don’t think about it much. Then the guy rattles off a whole bunch of maladies and how he is affected by them. I quickly decide that…
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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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Yoga Gives Good Laughter
Tammy, Recently I went to Daytona Beach for a yoga class with someone who is renowned for being a great teacher, does world-class inversions, is really sweet, and likes to have fun and laugh. She’s a lot like you. I took I-95 to get there and found the yoga studio which was pretty close to,…
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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…
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Why I go to Yoga Class
Tammy, I think I know why I go to your yoga class. Your classes remind me of being in preschool. We arrive with our own blankets, or in yoga terms, a mat. You greet us with a warm smile and some encouraging words. We know that you will take care of us. You then ask us to…