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.
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.
Boston New Years Yoga Classes and Events 2012
The annual blog post covering special yoga events and classes in and around Boston on New Years Eve, New Years Day, New Years Weekend, January 1st and beyond. We’ve got you covered: Friday December 30, 2011 6 – 8 PM Yoga Mudra: An Invitation to Closure with Jared Hirsch at Down Under Yoga (Newton, MA) Cost:$30 [...]
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 [...]
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: 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: 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: 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 [...]
Reflections on Matthew Sanford yoga workshop and some initial concussion thoughts
How do you work from the mind if the mind isn’t working? What if the mind is hurting? This Friday and Saturday I had the great fortune to attend Matthew Sanford‘s workshops (Self Realization and the Asana) at Majestic Yoga. If you are not familiar with Matthew’s work: Visionary Health Care Pioneer, Award-winning Author of [...]
Boston New Years Yoga Classes and Events
Looking for 2012? Updated: This year’s blogpost covering New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day 2012 yoga classes and events. Yoga events and classes in and around Boston on New Years Eve, New Years Day, New Years Weekend, January 1st and beyond. We’ve got you covered: Friday December 31, 2010 10:00 PM – 12:05 AM Om [...]
Yoga Sutras: Santosha means Contentment
How can I be happy? What if there’s something better than happiness? Is contentment (santosha) ultimately be more fulfilling? Santosha means contentment. Not happiness, not ecstasy or delight. Contentment. We don’t strive for the high, the amazing happy feeling that drives us wild–pure pleasure, endorphins firing and heart racing. Instead we work towards contentment. Santosha is [...]
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?
Acupuncture effective to relieve pain for fibromyalgia
New Research: A new study suggests acupuncture treatment is effective to relieve pain for Fibromyalgia (FM) patients. The researchers noted that many fibromyalgia patients (91%) use Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) to treat fibromyalgia symptoms and the disease. Acupuncture is one of the most commonly used CAMs. They note that the research on the effectiveness [...]
Yoga for Haiti: Join in a day of karma, asana, puja, and community
Update 03/26/10: Thanks to your support, we raised: $1,302 at the Silent Auction and $760 for classes. Thank you to all who came on Sunday. We collectively raised GRAND TOTAL: $2,062! go yogis! Here is the breakown of the numbers raised for the Haiti benefit: $1,302 silent auction, $760 classes–GRAND TOTAL $2, 062! Thanks to [...]
Yoga teacher in Boston, Cambridge, and Newton. Specializes in vinyasa, therapeutics, and restorative yoga. Loves