Yoga

Pranayama for Congestion (so you can sing!)

April 1, 2010 Bookmark and Share

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Hello Yogis & Yoginis,

Just back from the Singer Songwriter Cape May Fest in Jersey and from Boston, where I had the pleasure of visiting NPR station WUMB.  Great time, though I managed to contract a pretty severe head and chest cold, burning the candle at both ends in the wind and rain… read more »

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Open Hearted Yoga Pose for Valentine’s Day

February 10, 2010 Bookmark and Share
creeky but not creaky

creeky but not creaky

Well, here it comes again, Valentine’s Day. Wonderful holiday for lovers … but I propose that we take it out of the realm of romance and widen the scope to include all genres of loving. Love for friends, family, co-workers, pets, strangers on the street … hey, why not go really crazy and love yourself! Or better yet, open your heart to the people you don’t understand or with whom you strongly disagree? (That’d be love from afar. ☺)

Yoga, meaning literally to unify or yoke together, brings harmony & balance to the body, mind and spirit (your own little read more »

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Upward Facing Dog (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana)

October 9, 2009 Bookmark and Share

Urdhva Mukha Svanasana

URDHVA MUKHA SVANASANA – that’s Sanskrit for Upward Facing Dog…  Sanskrit’s one of the 22 official languages of India…  it’s also one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family, the family which includes English and most European languages.

That’s why it’s even conceivable that I can kinda sorta understand it, in regard to naming yoga poses. It’s akin to Latin & Greek and pronounced very much like Spanish …
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