Last week I wrote about how my yoga instructor basically had us play mind games to get us through the difficulty of boat pose. I’ll say it again: Yoga boat pose is definitely on my top-five list of poses I really dislike and is a boat trip I do not want to take. So, this more…

Or perhaps I should ask: Do you want to be mellow? Since I’m kind of on a yoga music theme this week on the Daily Downward Dog, I thought I would keep it going and tell you about one of the mellowest songs I’ve heard in a long time. Seriously, if you need a song more…

Tree pose is definitely one of my top ten favorite yoga poses. I love it when I feel totally balanced and can lift my hands up over my head and spread them out in a V. I push my lifted leg out farther, stand a little taller, and reach my arms up as far as more…

Can’t you just hear Julie Andrews blasting out those lyrics while twirling around on a beautiful Austrian mountainside? The sound of music can just sweep you away, and I got to have one of those Julie Andrews musical moments last week while practicing yoga. I showed up for yoga class a little late (imagine that), more…

The other night in yoga class, we went from standing split pose to airplane pose, which, if you have ever done it before, is really hard to do and still keep your balance. Airplane pose is not one of my favorites. You have to stand on one leg, raise the other leg behind you, and more…

Warrior goddess. Just the name itself is cool! I had never heard of this pose, but we did it in my yoga class this week. I think I may have heard my yoga instructor wrong though, because when I looked up the pose, I found that it is called goddess squat or utkata konasana. What more…

The other night in yoga class, we were in wide-legged forward bend (Prasarita Padottanasana), where the goal is to get your head to touch the floor. If you can imagine, my head is nowhere near the floor. The yoga instructor told us not to worry about getting our heads to the floor, but to do more…

“If you maintain your energy, your mind won’t get old.” —Gurudev Shri Amritji (Yogi Amrit Desai) Gurudev is in his seventies and still vibrant and active, a perfect testament that the practice of yoga keeps us young at heart. I’ve heard many times that if you continue to practice yoga that you will remain flexible more…

We cannot solve the problems of the future. This is a tough lesson to learn, but how often do we spend time worrying needlessly about something that hasn’t yet happened? Where does all that worry get us? Nowhere! Gurudev Shri Amritji reminded us at the workshop that our spirit has no problems…our problems are all more…