My Right Elbow – Radioulnar joint anatomy
There is something funky about my elbow. What to do? Anatomy books to the rescue! A story of yoga practice, elbow histories, and anatomy drawings.
Ethics vs. Power: The Life Cycle of The Guru / Politician [GRAPH]
A graph illustrating the psychology of power. Ethics and Power dynamics leads to this all too common journey in leaders (such as John Friend of Anusara Yoga, Anthony Weiner in politics, or Marc Hauser in academia). From ethical compromise, to rise in power, to exposure, to fall from grace. Leaders make the ethical compromises in their rise to power and this leads to their fall from grace after exposure.
Brock & Krista Cahill workshop: Notes & drawings (handstands, trapezius, bakasana, and tired-ness)
Notes from Brock & Krista Cahill’s yoga workshop. Notes on handstand & bakasana transitions, drawings of trapezius muscle, opening block shoulder sequence, plus various notes and musings.
Killer Neti Pots: a comic against brain-eating amoebas
The whole killer neti pot brain-eating amoebas thing the media has picked up and its subsequent reaction amongst the health community is cracking me up. It’s terrible, but the news headlines are sensational and read like tabloids. (In case you missed it, neti pots are those nasal irrigating pots that help clean your sinuses and [...]
Yoga Art: Balasana to Ustrasana transition
A simple sketch from after yesterday’s class with Ryan Cunningham at Back Bay Yoga. Nice to go to class and explore yoga asana practice through the lens of another teacher. In this case, I couldn’t remember the last time I’d done the transition into Ustrasana (or Camel pose) from Balasana (child’s pose). Ryan’s sequence was [...]
Yoga Art: Low Back Anatomy lesson + Layers in Torso Skeleton
Comparative anatomy is cool. When you look at the anatomy, form and function of another species, you can gain insights into the human body in ways we may have overlooked or ignored. Invisible characteristics become relevant and significant. Since form is function, our anatomy will effect our biomechanics, both in and out of yoga asana [...]
Restorative Yoga Poses: Grounded Savasana
The following is part of a series on Restorative Poses. Over the next weeks and months I will be posting some sketches highlighting restorative poses you can do at home. Each sketch will focus on a pose, action, or sensation. Please leave any questions below! Grounded Savasana or Grounding Corpse or Final Relaxation Pose Savasana [...]
Restorative Yoga Poses: Supported Supta Baddha Konasana
The following is part of a series on Restorative Poses. Over the next weeks and months I will be posting some sketches highlighting restorative poses you can do at home. Each sketch will focus on a pose, action, or sensation. Please leave any questions below! Supta Baddha Konasana or Reclining Bound Angle Pose Supta Baddha [...]
Yoga Art: Hand: Connect A Mudra
Hand. Hand. Alive. Energy. Fingers. Folds. Deep Ridges. Wrinkles. Experience. Lines. Circles. Connect. You might also like the Senses series, including the upcoming Yoga Art: Senses: Drishti and Yoga Art: Senses: Scent
Yoga Art: Senses: Scent
Senses. Scent. Nose. Throat. Thyroid. Vishuddha chakra. Breath. Lung. Soothing. Inside Outside Scent. You might also like other posts in the Senses series, such as the Yoga Art: Senses: Drishti Or the upcoming Yoga Art: Hand: Connect A Mudra
Yoga Art: Senses: Drishti
Drishti. Eyes. Focus. Angles. Lines. You might also like the upcoming Yoga Art: Senses: Scent Or Yoga Art: Hand: Connect A Mudra
Yoga Art: Spiral Twist: Sacrum Kidneys Heart
Spiral. Twist. Kidneys twist. Sacrum Base. Heart Follows. Up. You might also like the beginning of this series: Yoga Art: Head Heart Hearth Or the Yoga Art: Grounding Study or Yoga Art: Kidney Study: Thoracic Heart Cavity
Yoga Art: Head Heart Hearth
Movement. Woozy. Wild Thing. Front Heart Energy. Head Heart Hearth Sacrum You might also like the upcoming continuation of this series: Yoga Art: Spiral Twist: Sacrum Kidneys Heart and the continuation of the front heart opening poses in Yoga Art: Heart Opening Poses: Front, Back, and Ground Study Or the Yoga Art: Kidney Ribs Study: Thoracic Heart Cavity
Yoga Art: Heart Opening Poses: Front, Back, and Ground Study
A potpourri explosion of asanas. [four sketches]. Backbends. Forward bends. Breathe open shoulder blades, to sides. Open Front of Heart. Open Back of Heart. Balance and find ground. You might also like Yoga Art: Kidney Ribs Study: Thoracic Heart Cavity Or the Yoga Art: Grounding Study
Yoga Art: Kidney Ribs Study: Thoracic Heart Cavity
Kidneys. Ribs. Heart. Bones. Ribcage. Organ Space. Thoracic Cavity. Thoracic Space. Shoulders Hips Spine Juncture. Kidneys. Heart. Throat. You might also like: Yoga Art: Lung Arc Study Or images from the upcoming Yoga Art: Head Heart Hearth series which includes Yoga Art: Spiral Twist: Sacrum Kidneys Heart
Yoga Art: Grounding Study. Earth Center of Gravity. Center Line
Balasana. Child’s Pose. Earth. Center of Gravity. Center Line Balance. Spine. Feet. Hands. Ground through your feet + hands. Dance Balance through your center (of gravity, aka by the pelvis.) Tadasana. Adho mukha vrksasana (Handstand). A potpourri of poses: Vrksasana (Tree pose), Lotus, Parsvakonasana, Urdhva Dhanurasana, Virabhadrasana 2, and Virabhadrasana 3. You might also [...]
Yoga Art: Evolution to Center
Parsvakonasana. Side Angle. Side Bends, Side Waist, Twist Ground. Cones of torso shoulders, hips, body. Heart. Center Plane. Yoga Center of Gravity. Pelvis. Sacrum. Heart.
Yoga Art: Lung Arc Study
Ribs. Ribcage. Lung. Diaphragm. Liver. Breath. Heart. Torso. Colon. Organs protected interacting with bones and connective tissue. Weight and fall and relationship of liver to lung, diaphragm. Pleura. Pleural Cavity
Restorative Yoga Poses: Supported Child’s Pose (Balasana)
The following is part of a series on Restorative Poses. Over the next months I will be posting some sketches highlighting restorative poses you can do at home. Each sketch will focus on a pose, action, or sensation. Please leave any questions below! Balasana or Child’s Pose Child’s Pose, or Balasana, is many yoga student’s [...]
Why you don’t want to be Happy (or How to be Content = Santosha)
or How to be always Happy or How to be alone and Happy (i.e. content) or How can a person be happy if they are on a rat race towards happiness? I’m back! To the internet at least. And back on my twitter feed I was not able to resist this lovely gem of a video, poem, [...]
Yoga sells Money, Literally: Is yoga advertising misleading?
Yoga gives me strength, balance, and flexibility. Apparently this women’s bank does too. Screenshot off of the New York Times website on Monday May 31, 2010 Is yoga advertising misleading? This is not just a rhetorical question. The focus on balance, strength, and flexibility…. Gives me a strong sense of well-being. (I’m talking about my [...]
The Meaning of Namaste: Peace, Compassion, and Love [Video]
The meaning of namaste in yoga and in life. An inspiring video showing how the use and meaning of namaste can shift our world into a more compassionate, peaceful, and loving place.
Yoga and the Happy baby pose
The Yoga of Happy Baby There’s so much that could be said about the use of yoga in advertising. Money matters and yoga sells. But right now, I do not wish to over-intellectualized a video that just made me smile. Happy Baby. Atha Yoganuaasanam. Yoga begins now. Who knew diapers could be so lighthearted?
Yoga Review: Beauty catches us by surprise: the Yoga of MoMA
There’s such a simple beauty in the Music Movement Sound & Light. Beauty: Yoga at the MoMA with Elena Brower, Pipilotti Rist, Cinematic Orchestra (music & light) In October, I was in New York and had a blast “yoga shopping”. That’s my loving term for trying out different studios, teachers, and styles. I asked for [...]
Yoga teacher in Boston, Cambridge, and Newton. Specializes in vinyasa, therapeutics, and restorative yoga. Loves