In Defense of the Ego
Ego is a badgered word. Every time we catch ourselves doing something that we feel reflects an ugly…
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Yoga for Stress Management
Yoga — a mind-body practice — is considered one of many types of complementary and integrative health approaches.…
The Myths of Backbend (5) Autopilot Your Shoulder Blades
This month we explore another safety belt in backbend – your shoulder blades. This is because backbend requires…
Yoga emerges among Top 10 Fitness Trends Worldwide
Yoga has emerged among the top 10 fitness trends world wide for 2018, according to “Worldwide Survey of…
Movement and Stillness: A dance Therapist’s Kriya
When I first tried a meditation practice, I could not breathe. Discovering the book, The Serpent and the…
How Yoga Can Help Us Manage Modern Stress
Stress can often seem like an odd evolutionary hangover, like your appendix, or those little pink bits in…
Enduring Practice
During the past nineteen years of practicing yoga asanas, I’ve unrolled my mat in a variety of places…
Balancing Yoga & Meditation
The year was 2003. I was living in Brooklyn, New York at the time, and I had been…
The Three Kinds of Happiness
The eighteen chapters in Bhagavad Gita, the 700-verse Hindu scripture, are designated each as a type of Yoga.…
Vegetarianism and Yoga – The Link Between the Two
A vegetarian lifestyle combined with practicing yoga is definitely something we have all heard of. We are all…
SUN SALUTATION SURYA NAMASKARAM Variation 29
Surya (Sun) Namaskaram (Salutation) is the most commonly practised yoga sequence by many Yoga traditions today. Although the…
Living in Full Consciousness
This month, Asana talked to Founder and Director of Centre Yoga Sangha, Sylvie Tremblay, who has been teaching…