For the last few weeks we’ve been talking PAIN. We’ve looked at the latest in the pain science research and discussed pain-induced fear. Most of us think we know pain. After all, pain is an indisputable part of human experience; most of us have had at least one, if...
Good morning yogis! Since I’m spending my summer walking, I couldn’t help but share with you a few nerdy nuggets about the many benefits of walking, especially, of course, properly aligned walking: ~ Walking is one the most beneficial movements you can do, if not the...
This chapter is a final installment into the Air element inquiry. Let’s recap where we’ve been and chart our future course. In the previous weeks we’ve looked at the Ayurvedic approach to health and healing, and discussed the qualities of Space and Air – first two of...
Welcome to the second installment into the Air element discussion. We ended last week’s conversation with a glimpse of Ayurvedic principle of interconnectivity (quantum physics calls this “law of entanglement”), and our own personal inside look into the nature of this...
This post is the second installment in the Ecology of Pain conversation. Imagine two maps laid out in front of you. The first map is a record of your lifestyle choices: simple things such as the time you wake up, how brightly your house is lit in the evenings, your...
Welcome to the second installment of the “Choosing Differently” series. Last week we started a conversation about our choices – the easy ones, the familiar ones, the unconscious ones, and the difficult ones. You’ve met Anna, our “choosing differently” hero of the...
One of the most influential yoga teachers, Judith Hanson Lasater, once said: “Yoga is the practice of making difficult choices.” The difficulty, I believe, lies in the mentality of familiarity. Over a lifetime, our perspective narrows until the usual way, the familiar...
What if you could quiet the mind and prepare your body for restful sleep, all the while alleviating symptoms of hormonal imbalances (andropause, menopause, peri-menopause, PMS and general teenage moody crankiness), reducing water retention in the feet, preventing...
A new student has joined one of last week’s yoga classes. While she is new to Satori, she is a very experienced practitioner with over 12 years of yoga practice under her belt. When I asked the class to come into the child’s pose, she let me know that her neck doesn’t...
If you’ve been religiously stretching your hip-flexor muscles for a while with no consistent results, now might be as good time as ever to take a different (and wider) perspective. Traditionally, most individual muscle stretching protocols follow a somewhat mechanical...