The Shades of Yoga/Taksu Experience
By Natalie Thomas – May 2018 My time in Ubud, Bali during my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training If someone would have told me at the beginning of April what the month of May had …
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5 Tips to Safely Enter Forward Fold Poses
Forward Fold or Forward Bend Poses are one of the “must-do” poses in a yoga class. Yet many of us can do it better and safer. So, during our teacher training we enter the forward …
Preparing Yoga Sequences with Peak Pose Focus
A yoga class can be themed around so many things. The theme can be about a spiritual idea, as well as strengthening certain parts of the body, or a yoga class may aim for an …
Finding Your Yoga Teacher Voice
Yoga in its core is a spiritual practice. And the teaching style of the teacher will reflect their own spiritual practice. There is a lot of discussion about finding a yoga teacher voice. My best …
Tips on Preparing Amazing Yoga Sequences 1
It’s all about intention. The intention is the key when preparing our sequences. The intention defines the action. Even a simple and clear word “yes” can have so many different meanings depending on the intention. …
Five Tips to Build A Strong Home Practice
Home practice is an important part in our yoga development as we learned in our teacher training. With home practice we learn to listen and respond to our body. It is also something that brings us …
What to expect from an Ashtanga Yoga Class?
The term Ashtanga Yoga refers to two different things. First, it refers to a highly spiritual ancient practice that is explained in Yoga Sutras. Second, it refers to a modern style yoga practice that has …
Explaining Yin Yoga
The umbrella term for the physical practices of yoga is Hatha yoga. There are many types of Hatha Yoga. The dynamic styles of Hatha Yoga which focuses on muscle tissues are considered to be yang …
Explaining Iyengar Yoga
By now if you have been practicing yoga you have most likely heard the name B.K.S Iyengar. The man responsible for the yoga style called: Iyengar Yoga. So who is this man and what can we …
The Wisdom of the Body, Proprioception
Have you ever tried standing on one leg with your eyes closed? Will you be able to hold Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana (Hand to Big Toe Pose) or even Vyksasana (Tree Pose) with your eyes closed? …
Pratyahara: Internalization of senses
Yoga is so much more than the physical mat practice that is relatable these days. The very word Yoga comes from the Vedic Sanskrit word to unite or to add or to join. Yoga gives …
The seat of our personal power, Manipura chakra
The word chakra is not unfamiliar in todays moderns world. We have so many lovely chakra meditation sessions, chakra healing sessions, chakra crystals, chakra balancing therapies. The word and its view points are discussed at …
Daily practice for Breath Work
Pranayama is one of the most important parts of a yoga practice. It is the fourth limb in the Eight limbed system of yoga by Patanjali. Prana itself is also known as the life force …
Home Practice for Tight Hips
In modern life, we are bound to office desk and we sit for long periods of time at work. The result is that the hip flexors and rotators become tight, and our gluteal muscles become …
Yoga For Kids
Just as we experience amazing health benefits from doing yoga regularly, so too can our children. Yoga can help children to manage their stress, to build concentration, to increase their confidence and self-esteem, to find …
What happens in a Yoga Teacher Training?
A 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training overview. You’ve been doing yoga for a while now, you love it, as it makes you feel great. You have decided that you are ready to start teaching your …
The Art of Teaching with Love
Teaching is Living Your Passion As many other teachers in the world, I believe that teaching is my dharma – my purpose in life. Both my parents were teachers, and I have always drawn into teaching. …
To Prop or Not to Prop
The Use of Props in Yoga Classes There are different views when it is related with the use of props in our yoga practice. Depends on our background, we might have crossed over these views …
A glance of Bhakti Yoga: Yoga of Devotion
What is Bhakti Yoga? In Bali – the island of the Gods, we often see the practice of Bhakti Yoga. Bhakti itself comes from the word Bhaj, which means to be attached to the Divine. …
Where’s Your Head?
A series to examine how Yoga can help us to show up more fully in life on & off the mat Although I have been teaching Mind/Body disciplines for the last 16 years, it is …
You’ve finished your yoga teacher training program – what now?
Some of us attend yoga teacher training because we want to learn more about yoga. Some of us attend yoga teacher training because we want to learn more about ourselves. Yoga teacher training is certainly …
Yoga, more than just an asana practice
Yoga seems to have gained tremendous popularity over the past few years. Everyone seems to have embraced this wonderful bodily experience and has a copy of their favorite yoga studio and teacher schedule stuck on …
Five Sanskrit Words to Live By
Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism and is used in the spiritual texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Through the practice of yoga many of us have come to know some Sanskrit words like …
5 reasons why professional sports love Yoga
There is a reason why even in 2016, over 80% or all yoga practitioners are women. There is an all too common misconception that yoga is too “soft” and “feminine” and not for tough guys …
2016: BEST YEAR EVER TO BECOME A YOGA TRAINER
Yoga is seeing phenomenal surge in popularity on a global level these days. Such has been its meteoric rise that even the Indian Prime Minster is active in promoting yoga internationally as an aspect his …
Ahimsa – non violence – gentleness
Learn about the ethical principle of Ahimsa, or non violence, which is the first ethical guideline outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras.
The paradox of committing to and letting go of your yoga practice
Two principles, abhyasa and vairagya, lie at the heart of yoga. Abhyasa means ‘practice’. It refers to the consistent effort of putting one foot in front of the other and a commitment to making choices that take us incrementally further on our spiritual journey…
Energy Boosters: The Secret to Having a Natural High
How often do you think or say “I feel drained” or “I’m so tired”? Maybe life has run away with you and your energy stores are depleted and only you are feeling like a hollow …