Hiiiii friends, So happy to be back together! I’ve just returned from filming a boatload of new videos at Yoga Anytime (coming soon, but be sure to check out all of my other videos there) and am packing the car to leave on a family camping…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 203// Sweet, Summertime Practice
Lingering in pratyahara.
I’d like to introduce a new weekly post: class notes. Here, I will share my own class notes with all of you. Making a plan for class and then reflecting on it afterwards has been an invaluable tool to me as a teacher over the…
Continue reading Class notes// Moving Inward
You know how things start simply, then get complicated, then are reduced down to their essential state again? I am always talking about this. It’s true. There is something about the edges– easy times, challenging times– that brings up our patterns, whether in the physical,…
Continue reading It’s Not a Circus// Finding Yoga and Maybe Meaning in Architecturally Complex Postures
hello Yogi-hearts! For the past few weeks, I have had terrible insomnia! This is so strange for me. After feeling particularly worn-down on Sunday morning due to a fitful night, I decided to pull out all of the stops and do all of the things…
Continue reading Sleep! Video blogs day 7 & 8.
In class this week, we practiced Asta Vakrasana (8-Angle Pose). Many students approached this posture for the first time. I find arm-balances to be an exhilarating addition to the physical practice. Aside from the liberation one feels when the feet and the seat lift off the…
Continue reading Pose Mechanics: Asta Vakrasana
This class focuses on Vairagya, or Non-attachment (one of the key teachings on this yogic path). This is an all-levels class that lasts about 50-ish minutes. For yogis who are new to sirsasana (headstand), please exercise caution. I recommend learning headstand from an experienced teacher and…
Continue reading Practicing Vairagya (Non-attachment)
Hello hello. Can you believe we have come this far on the vlogging journey? I’m excited to share this next little video with you on forward folds. In my opinion, forward folds are an often-neglected, though supremely useful part of the physical practice of yoga. …
Continue reading Day 27~~ Digging Forward Folds
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2iSYw9bdkU]Want to take your backbends deeper? Come into your quadriceps, lengthen your side body, plug-in the shoulders and ~BOOOOOOM!~ open your heart. Blessings to you all, Kelly
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5YYhklIR7Y] blessings, dear yogis. today’s video features a short sequence for the hips. i practiced this sequence every day for a number of months in 2006 and it REALLY helped me appreciate micro-movements in this tight area. a few more of my REALLY tight hip…
Continue reading Day 23– Sequence for REALLY tight hips