Here is a nice overview on how to do safely do shoulder stand in yoga. I walk you through two different ways you can modify the pose. If you're mostly practicing yoga at home, you should definitely take the time to understand the mechanics and develop a little bit of insight for your own practice. 

While we’re all spending more time in our homes these days, it may seem as though all of your day-to-day activities are in one place. From home office, to home gym or at home yoga, there’s lots of ways to maximize your small space to fit your interests. If you’re looking for a way to bring more peac...

Feeling too tired to exercise? Or like you just can’t find the time to fit in your practice or training? Maybe you need a little shift. Sometimes our minds and our bodies need a change or a break from our current routine and it tells us in the form of feeling too tired when it’s time to train. That’...

You’ve never set foot in a yoga class…and you aren’t sure what to expect? Well, I thought I’d give you the low-down before you get there. Here are the bare essentials that you need to know:

1. Try not to eat within 2 hrs of class. I seriously hear a lot of people worried about embarrassing bodily f...

Yoga literally changes the structure of your brain. It alters your brain chemistry and it changes the way the thought patterns are processed. And it’s been measured.

A regular yoga practice can improve physical, mental, and emotional balance. Physically, the poses bring more strength and flexibilit...

When we look at the body/mind/spirit in yoga or spirituality we see it as a science. The person or personality is the the single perspective of that body/mind/spirit complex. It’s like looking through one facet of a prism. When you start to see the difference between the personality and the human be...

In this article I talk about what it means to be grounded spiritually, signs and feelings of being UNgrounded, some common causes of feeling ungrounded and what tools of yoga to use to ground yourself. If you have foot, ankle, or leg problems, sciatica or low back pain, arthritis or other joint prob...

I hear this question a lot. In general my opinion and my answer is “as often as possible, but a little is better than none”. It’s like any other form of exercise or sport…the more you do it, the better you get or the more progress you will see. But for some reason people want to hear a number, a tar...

This one is inspired by a conversation I had recently with a friend and fellow teacher. And one of the things that I see often, is that new yoga teachers feel that since they are ‘new’ to teaching yoga, they should teach beginners. The irony of the situation is that teaching beginners is the hardest...