Welcome to Yogi Sticks!

Do you know your Gomukasana from your Adho Mukha Svanasana? Is your Vrksasana all it can be? And how do you feel about Supta Baddha Konasana? Do you know what I'm even talking about?

Sometimes the Sanskrit - however beautiful it sounds - is not very helpful. So, to encourage my students to expand their yoga practice into their home, I sketch the poses we practice during class on a chart and add the Sanskrit and common name. Hopefully, this is a useful tool to help them along in their yogic journey. I also troll the internet, books, and journals to find interesting articles about yoga and the yogic lifestyle.

3-22-10 Waist, Ribs, and Obliques

By popular request, we worked some more on our core tonight - concentrating on our waist, ribs, and oblique abdominals. It's especially important to work along the ribs and side body as our breathing muscles and organs attach along the ribs. More movement = more breath! The photo above shows some of the poses we worked on, including forward fold, backbend, reed, and extended mountain. Check out the length of their side bodies - awesome!
The quote from tonight's class was from Alexander Pope: "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." Namaste.

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