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Get to Know Your Hips and Pelvis – Special Workshop Offering

Blog Written by Chris Saudek The Yoga Place is offering a special workshop with Chris Saudek on Sunday, April 11th from 2-5pm CST. Sign up HERE ! In this asana…

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Withdrawal of the Senses

Our next meeting of The Yoga Sutra Study Group will be on Sunday, March 28th at 11:00am. We are finishing up the second chapter of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali…

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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…

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The 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…

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I 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…

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From 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,…

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Back 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…

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What 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…

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The 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…

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A 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…