Ashtanga yoga for everyone
Are you planning your next yoga holiday or planning to travel with your yoga mat but don’t know if you can bring it on the plane with you? The two options are to either bring your mat on the plane as carry-on luggage or check it in. There are several things to consider and so […]
Go to any yoga class and you will most likely hear the word Namaste at least once. It can be used at the beginning of the class, or at the end of the class. It can also be used when students enter the yoga studio. And so it is very common for most beginners to […]
Home yoga studios are becoming more and more popular nowadays. Especially with the lockdown and the closure of many yoga studios, people had to start practicing at home if they wanted to keep up their yoga practice. Practicing in a yoga studio can be a rewarding and blissful experience. Yoga studios are our quiet sanctuaries […]
For anyone who practices yoga, thinking about what to eat before yoga and then what to eat after yoga can be a very important question. You don’t want to eat too much so as you don’t feel bloated, but you also want to eat enough so you have enough energy for the practice. The best […]
I have had a home yoga practice for the past 6 years. In this time I have been there, tried that. Having a successful home yoga practice can be very challenging as it’s up to you to find the motivation to commit to a daily practice, as much as you may love it! Somehow it […]
Yoga is considered to be India’s gift to the world. It is an ancient practice that has crossed borders and is currently practiced by millions of people all around the world. As a yoga teacher, my students often ask me how old yoga is and what a yoga history timeline looks like. Yoga can be […]
For the athletes who haven’t taken the plunge and started yoga yet, there are numerous benefits of yoga for athletes. The repetition of movements in certain sports can result in an imbalance in the body. This, in turn, may lead to aches and pains and even injury. Yoga may be able to help bring balance […]
Go to any yoga class around the world and chances are there will be more women than men in the class. I have practiced yoga all over the world and classes range from all-female to maybe a 40/60 ratio of men to women. So why do more women practice yoga compared to men? Many years […]
Lotus Pose, or Padmasana in Sanskrit, is one of the most widely recognized poses in yoga. It is considered to be the ultimate pose for seated meditation. Interestingly, there is a standard way of entering this pose. There is a specific order of placing the legs in lotus. According to traditional yoga texts, we place right […]
A question most beginners ask me before their first yoga class is what to wear for their first class. The next question is whether we wear shoes and socks during class. With a smile, I say that we practice yoga barefoot. We practice yoga barefoot because socks are slippery and shoes are bulky. Doing yoga […]
