08 Jul Your Favorite Quote from the Gita that Isn’t
I first saw this quote on Facebook. Or maybe it was Pinterest. Or perhaps some yoga blog. And I thought to myself, "hmm...
06 Jul Balance Your Hips Using the Great Yoga Wall
It's time for another Great Yoga Wall workshop! I love getting the opportunity to help people find greater freedom and mobility through the Great Yoga Wall. One Center is the only studio in town with this state of the art yoga wall. If you've never...
06 Jul Brad Waites comes to One Center Yoga
When I first met Brad, I was struck by the precision of his language balanced by the kindness in his voice. Brad is sweet but sharp. A former civil litigation attorney and partner in his firm, Brad brings a lawyer's mind to his teaching, breaking...
06 Jul Being a Student as well as a Teacher
Both roles are crucial for each other, especially if you happen to be both. When we teach, we teach what we have integrated during our time as a student. Teaching rests on the fruits of our labor as students, getting things in our bodies and...
04 Jul Are you ready for a Complaint-Free World?
We love our 21-day experiments in Purna Yoga. They give us the opportunity to practice svadhyaya (self-study). One of Aadil's favorite 21-day experiments is noticing one's spoken complaints and making a concerted effort never to complain or make excuses. Fellow Purna Yoga instructor and director...
01 Jul Anatomy Study: the Sacro-Iliac Joint by The Daily Bandha
Whenever I talk about the sacrum and the S-I joint in class, I always ask, "does everyone know where the sacrum is?". Sometimes the answer is yes, but I always love it when someone is willing to say, "no". Because even if we do know...
29 Jun Variations on Vegan Ice Cream
But, now that's it's hot in the mountains, ice cream has been calling me, and since I don't eat dairy or sugar, bananas have made it back into the mix. It's nice to have bananas again for special summertime treats, and the fact that they're...
26 Jun book review: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
One of the tasks of yoga is to shine a light on our conditioning so that we can recognize when we're living in a robotic state and perhaps decide to change our behavior, to get out of the rut, and change our habits....
24 Jun master the basics: Gomukhasana arms
When I do this pose on a daily or every-other-day basis, it balances out the habitual patterns of keyboarding, mousing, cutting vegetables, holding the steering wheel, you name it – all the things that tend to kink my neck and shoulders....
22 Jun Slomo and the Art of Surya Namaskar
"If you keep [lateral acceleration] constant, the feeling of expansion continues to build. Anything where you can get this lateral acceleration feeling, you can use that for meditation, because it puts you in the zone." Dr. John Kitchin...