1: Boat Pose Paripurna Navasana:(par-ee-POOR-nah nah-VAHS-anna)paripurna = full, entire, completenava = boat 2: Bridge Pose Setu Bandha Sarvangasana:(SET-too BAHN-dah)setu = dam, dike, or bridgebandha = lock 3: Crane (Crow) Pose Bakasana:(bahk-AHS-anna)baka = crane 4: Fish Pose Matsyasana:Traditionally Fish Pose is performed with the legs in Padmasana. Since Padmasana is beyond the capacity of most beginning students, here we’ll work either with the knees bent, feet on the floor, or with the legs straight pressed against the floor. (mot-see-AHS-anna) 5: Half Frog Pose: 6: Half Moon Pose  Ard ..read more

This is for all you new teachers out there or for someone who would like to switch things up a bit for their Savasana scripts.    Yoga International is a wonderful source for many things and Savasana cannot be forgotten or skipped.  It's important. People will remember your Savasana.  It's the last pose and typically people remember the first and the last parts of any experience a bit more than the middle.  So, make it good peeps! Many people appreciate a bolster under the thighs for added comfort.  There are little things you can do to make the ending of their yoga practice a bit more spe ..read more

​ Another  great article from Yoga International: If you have chronic pain in your knees, if they “snap, crackle, and pop” when you bend or extend them, or if they tend to hyperextend, you may have improper tracking or “dislocation” of the kneecap. This misalignment causes the most common kind of chronic knee pain and damage to the knee joint, which develop slowly over time. Yoga knee therapy might be able to help.  Here’s a simple anatomy lesson: The kneecap is designed to slide along a groove in the femur, and it has to move smoothly within that groove to do its job well. If it goes “off t ..read more

These are stressful times.  Sometimes when I am in bed at night I think about a million things.  Things I've done wrong, words I have said that I cannot take back and the never-ending "to do" list that is always on my mind.  I've always envied people who go straight to sleep once their heads hit the pillow.  I don't know how they do it.   This fab little 6 hour tibetan music is so smooth.  So soothing.  I love it and thought I'd share it with all of you.  Enjoy ..read more