Posts by Jennie Williford CIYT
Your Shoulders and Yoga
The Monday night monthly special topic classes have been popular, so we will continue in April with “Your Shoulders and Yoga: Support, Strength, and Sustainability”. So many joints can be…
Read MoreThe Power of Prana
Our last meeting of the Yoga Sutra Discussion group covered the Yoga Sutras devoted to Pranayama (the practice of breath regulation) – Chapter II, sutras 49-53. And, of course, the…
Read MoreI Believe I Can Fly
Starting next Monday at 6:30-7:45pm, during the month of March, we will be offering a special 4-week series on Arm Balances. Just by saying or writing “arm balances”, I already…
Read MoreFrom Asana to Pranayama
Our last meeting of the Yoga Sutra Discussion Group covered the 3 yoga sutras on asana (posture). It is always amazing to note that out of the 195 yoga sutras,…
Read MoreBack Extensions – NOT “Bends”!
There are many reasons the Iyengars are geniuses in the practice and teaching of yoga, but one is in their use of language and posture names and their insistence that…
Read MoreWhat is Asana?
Our next meeting of The Yoga Sutra Discussion Group will be Sunday, Jan 31st at 11:00am. We will be discussing the three sutras regarding the most prominent limb of what…
Read MoreThe Elements of Asana and Healthy Immunity
In preparing for the next 4-week series on “Yoga and Healthy Immunity”, I was once again overwhelmed by the amount of information and introspection that BKS Iyengar has given us…
Read MoreA New Year for Yoga
Well 2020 was a weird one, huh? It was a new year full of new experiences that I am not sure any one of us could have predicted. Even the…
Read MoreObserve Your Self – The Niyamas
The principles of Niyama…emphasize the importance of self-discipline. Mastery of yoga would be unrealizable without the observance of the ethical principles of yama and niyama. BKS Iyengar – Light on…
Read MoreYoga’s Moral Depth – The YAMAS
“The YAMAS are the great, mighty, universal vows, unconditioned by place, time, and class.” Yoga Sutra II.31 – BKS Iyengar in “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” Yoga is…
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