A much younger me and the current me! I've been teaching yoga for a LONG time now. 15 years. I've also completed thousands of hours worth of training. When you start out, yoga is usually about getting stronger in the body or becoming more flexible - but that's just the [...]
Nadi Shodhana is a balancing pranayama (breathing practice) that balances the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system, balances the qualities of introversion and extroversion and harmonises the operation of the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Yoga techniques empower us to rebalance the sometimes negative effects of our external environment i.e stress, [...]
I've grappled with this question many times. Should Yoga be practiced to music? Does it in some way detract from the sacredness of the practice or reduce the meditative aspect? Or, by practicing yoga to music are we simply downgrading a multi-layered practice to an exercise class that relies on music [...]
