On Friday I went to see my anatomy teacher Leslie Kaminoff, who noticed my blog posts bemoaning my injury and kindly invited me to come in to his clinic. Yay for blogs! I sit in class every week and watch him fix people, but I kept thinking my shoulder would be better tomorrow, or tomorrow, [...]

If you’ve had low back pain, you know how incapacitating it can be. One wrong step, and some mysterious stranger stabs a knife between your vertebrae. If you haven’t, and you’re practicing yoga, please read this article from My Yoga Online: The Threats of Twisting The one thing I would add is an insight from [...]

This weekend I had an old yoga friend in town, which was really great because I got dragged to Vinyasa classes and Burning Man decompressions instead of bars and Broadway. I got to talk about Warrior I for twenty minutes! Because this fall, the real issue is whether your front heel should align with the [...]

I just had to make a quick post about the open house I attended Wednesday at The Breathing Project. Leslie Kaminoff gave an amazing lecture on breathing and anatomy in yoga, I’m seriously considering signing up for his anatomy classes instead of heading for the Iyengar Institute. His approach is less detail-oriented than Iyengar’s; he [...]

I’ve been meaning to share this amazing illustrator (Tom Geisler) who has drawn out the internal organs as they respond to emotion. Very cool! No word on whether you can go backwards, and stimulate the organs (aka do yoga) to generate the emotion. I tried medical illustration once and it was a bust, it is [...]