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.

10-11 Moon Poses and 10-13 Neck and Shoulders

I had a request for neck and shoulder stretches, so I took some poses from a wonderful book: Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain by Carol Krucoff.

The quote for tonight: "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that theses obstacles were my life. -James Patterson

Yoga celebrates the union between two disparate identities, and tonight we played with our Moon side, trying poses in unconventional ways and exploring an adapted Moon Salutation. A quick Google search of Moon Salutations will provide a plethora of examples to choose from to develop your own personal version.

Tonight's quote: "Think, if you will, of your life as an art gallery and of the events in it as paintings that you have made. A week ago, or a year ago, or just yesterday you began a picture and today it turns up in the gallery that is your life. You stop to look at it. Is it beautiful...or is it ugly? Whatever it is, see it as a painting in the gallery of your life, and consider that spirit in which you paint today determines how nice your gallery looks tomorrow." -Brian Browne Walker

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