From the category archives:

Asana - Yoga Postures

Mountain Pose: Find your foundation

August 4, 2010

Mountain Pose: Find your foundation
By Mindy Arbuckle, E-RYT

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Pigeon: Open Hips Lead to a Happy Heart

July 16, 2010

“Open hips lead to a happy heart” is Karen Boeser’s (GMY’s Assistant Director and fabulous yoga teacher) favorite saying. It is such a part of her that nearly every one of her students has heard it and taken it to heart.

But what does it mean? “Open hips lead to a happy heart.”

Let’s start from where most of us are: tight-ish hips and poor posture. Our hips exist in a two dimensional world most of the time. We walk, sit, stand, go up and down stairs, ext. Rarely do we move side-to-side or open our stance wider than our hips. Some women cross their legs while sitting, but that just promotes a small outer hip stretch and an imbalance in the pelvis.

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King Dancer: Let Go of Effort and Grace Flows In

July 2, 2010

King Dancer: Let Go of Effort and Grace Flows In
By Mindy Arbuckle, E-RYT

Natarajasana is a beautiful pose in which you balance on one leg and bring the toes of the opposite legs up behind you and hold onto them behind the head. It creates a beautiful backbending circular flow of energy.

It represents the energy of Nataraja, Shiva in the form of the Lord of the Dance. Shiva is one of the Hindu trinity of gods and represents the third phase of creation: destruction/transformation. As Nataraja, Shiva is portrayed dancing on one foot with a ring of fire surrounding him. Shiva dances to the rhythm of the universe and the never ending cycle of infinity, life, death and rebirth.

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The Perfect Yoga Pose

July 1, 2010

Comfortable and Steady - 1/2 Lord of the Fishes

The Perfect Pose
By Mindy Arbuckle, E-RYT

A client and I were talking in a private session last week about their postures. They told me that at times they feel like they aren’t “very good at postures” when they look at other students in class. They feel like they aren’t good enough.

Have you ever felt [...]

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Surrendering into Childs Pose

June 21, 2010

Balasana, is the pose of the child. We drape our bodies over our folded legs, representing a child in the womb. It is a resting and restorative pose that is often practiced to stretch the lower back or performed after a challenging set of postures. It offers us time to go within and gives us time to let the body and mind absorb our practice. The innocent, receptive nature of a child is reflected in this posture and is an easy place to feel transformed by our yoga practice.

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Home Practice: Start Simple

August 26, 2009

All of us enjoy our time we spend at the yoga studio practicing for ourselves and with others. But, we also know that we can’t make it to as many classes as we would like to.

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