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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.

2-24-10 Hip Flexors

What are most of us doing the majority of time during the day? Sitting. And sitting. And driving. And typing. And sitting...All of the non-activity shortens our hip flexor area, so the practice today was designed to stretch that area (including the iliacus, quadratus lumborum, and psoas). This involves thigh (quadricept) stretches and backbends - which come from a lengthening of the hip and a rising of the heart. There are many great references to these poses (camel - ustrasana, warrior 1 - virabhadrasana 1, pigeon - kapotasana, and bow - dhanurasana) on the net from places like youtube and yogajournal.com.


Tonight's class thought: We must move from an external reference to an internal reverance.

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