Daily practice: Legs Up The Wall pose
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...
5 Steps To Fullfilling Meditation
Hard to believe the first installment of “Meditation Prescription” class is already behind us (meditation class is on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM - please contact Satori if you'd like to join the group) - wow, time flies! Here are some topics we...
Is Your Child’s Pose A Pain In The Neck?
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...
Stuck stretching your hip-flexors?
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...
Stuck In The Stinking Thinking?
History of humankind is the history of storytelling. Stories were exchanged on the dark nights around the fire, in the middle-eastern coffee shops, at family gatherings and dinner celebrations. Yet, there's another type of storytelling - the internal kind. These are...
The Breath Poem
I've been reading this poem in my classes this week, and some students asked me to post it. Here it is: this poem came to me in one of my trainings; it is by Donna Martin, professional writer and speaker. Enjoy! The Breath is Life's Teacher Observe me, says the...
4 FREE Ways to Detoxify
Many of us are so used to the idea that we need to buy a cleanse kit of some sort to do a seasonal cleanse. Here are 4 FREE ways to detoxify your body and your life: #1. Reduce or eliminate all ice-cold drinks. The reason behind the idea: ice – cold drinks hinder the...
Where do you find your stability?
Exploratory movement in yesterday’s Hatha class revealed something very interesting. Oftentimes we lack awareness and/or strength in deep, intrinsic muscles of the inner core. Instead, when our stability is challenged, we engage the familiar, big postural muscles...
How Toxic Are Your Thoughts?
In our childhood many of us unwillingly absorb our parents’ inefficient ways of thinking and handling stress. These patterns are continuously reinforced by cultural codes of behavior and limited emotional repertoire we have adopted from our parents. I grew up in a...
Yoga Therapy to the Rescue
Improve your posture with just one thought. You don’t think it’s possible, do you? A few years ago, before I started researching holistic healing model, I would’ve agreed with you. However, today I ask you to humor me and try this: Begin seating or standing tall,...