Vinyasa means breath movement synchronicity. One of the most famous teachers I have studied boiled yoga down to “breathing, with a few movements thrown in”. Vinyasa Flow is in wonderful style of practising physical yoga with priority given to breath over movement. Breath is boss, and guides you through...
So, there are a lot of stories in the Ulster Cycle, about that lad, Setanta, who was a great hurler, and who later became Cuchulainn, the champion of Ulster. There was another lad over in India about the same time, by the name of Arjuna and the stories about...
So, I was thinking about the opening prayer in the Asthanga tradition. Many people who come to yoga have abandoned, or fell betrayed, by organised religion. Yet here they are on the mat, about to engage in something intensely physical and we stop to say a little prayer. Why?...