In the days before I fell sick with a bad cold last week, I was talking to my yoga students about the unity of body and mind. Lying on the sofa for days with a nasty cold gave me plenty of time to reflect on the mind-body connection. I think most people recognize that mental stress and tension definitely affect the body. What I think we are less likely to remember is that the reverse relationship also applies: the stress of the body affects the mind. . . . → Read More: Reason to Smile
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This past weekend, I was the beneficiary of a stroke of great luck. A friend had called Friday afternoon me to say that a highly-respected teacher from the Iyengar tradition, Kofi Busia, would be teaching in the Washington area over the weekend, and would I like to go with her to an advanced workshop? It took less than a minute for me to decide, Yes! . . . → Read More: A Teacher’s Teacher’s Teacher Months ago, I booked myself for a weeklong yoga intensive with a well-respected Iyengar-style teacher. For weeks before I was beefing up my home practice to try to be prepared, since the man leading the seminar has a reputation as a precise and demanding instructor. Sadly, the course had to be cancelled when our teacher suffered a serious injury the very evening before the course was supposed to begin. So there I was last Monday morning, all dressed up in my yoga clothes and nowhere to go. When you’ve spent that long building up to something it takes a while to switch gears. . . . → Read More: Switching Gears Tuesday our high here was 83 warm and glorious degrees. At the house we had the windows open wide, and the breezes were wafting through the house stirring up dust bunnies from under the furniture all day. Dust bunnies are a small price to pay for the soft spring air, but it was a . . . → Read More: Signs of Spring My friends know that yoga is a huge part of my life. Be warned: I’m quite capable of boring you silly by going on about how great yoga is for what ails you. But I do wish that more yogis showed at least a bit of a sense of humor. There’s so much earnest . . . → Read More: Yoga Humor As I have always suspected, new studies show that multitaskers aren’t nearly as efficient as they think they are. Here’s a story in the New York Times that summarizes several reports on the ability of the human brain to do more than one thing at a time. To my mind, the trouble with multitasking . . . → Read More: One Thing at a Time I got into a discussion with my husband the other day about why I’ve stopped listening to virtually all television and radio news. I used to feel that the news was almost a civic duty, part of being an adult citizen. But after years of dutifully watching and listening, I realized that most often . . . → Read More: Are You Worried? The room where I teach at a private health club is a small multi-purpose room. It’s not precisely ideal–it’s home to several tall stacks of plastic chairs being stored there, for one thing. It has a wall of mirrors, for another. I know that many yoga studios do have mirrors, but I’m against them, personally. On the first day I began teaching there, I had to decide how to orient the room, and deliberately placed myself at the wall opposite the mirrors, so the students face me with their backs to their reflections. I wondered if that would arouse comment, and sure enough, yesterday one of my new students asked why we didn’t face the mirrors, as they had with their previous yoga teacher. I was glad to have the opportunity to explain. . . . → Read More: Facing Away from the Mirrors |
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