A yoga practice should complement your physical health, emotional temperament, and intellectual interests. Yoga can be practiced by reading books, or volunteering, or meditating, but the physical exercises are a popular place to start. Here are a few aspects to consider.

Sticking around the city this holiday? Here are some great Thanksgiving and day-after options. THANKSGIVING DAY (11/26/09) Om Factory — 108 Sun Salutations with Ashley Bouldin 8:30am – 10:30am $17 drop-in (or use your class card) 108 Sun Salutations can be a celebration of gratitude for the health of your body. If you are thinking [...]

This felt great. For posterity: Kundalini Warmup (seated, all with Breath of Fire) Low Back Flexes (hands on knees) Mid Back Flexes (hands on ankles) Spinal Twists (hands on shoulders) Upper Back Flexes (hands on shoulders) Shoulder Shrugs (hands on thighs) Shoulder Seesaws (hands clasped) Shoulder Stretch (hands clasped in front of heart and pull, [...]

Creating a small Kundalini studio, in the “Arthur Ave. Little Italy” section of the Bronx. The studio will be geared to Fordham students, along with offerings for the community, kids classes, mommie and me. If interested please contact us. Intention is to have the space up and running by Nov. 1st. Also looking for the [...]

Two-score days ago I started a little New Year’s Resolution, and guess what? Today is day 40! I did it! “It” was a simple daily practice of Navel Lock with breath retention for 10–40 seconds. In most cases it was about twenty or twenty-five seconds; I’ve always had trouble with retentions on exhales more than [...]

New Year’s is probably my favorite holiday (in spirit, not in typically exorbitant and excessively drunken practice). It’s about starting fresh with what you have, doing things you’ve been wanting to do, declaring your intentions for the next year. I’m not usually a resolution-maker; I’m kind of a self-improvement junkie so I’m always tweaking my [...]

It’s sometimes hard to have a happy holiday. You’re so sleep-deprived you could kill/cry, your brain is a gray mush of to-do lists, and the prospect (or lack) of family time is cuing thunderclouds of emotion. Plus, it’s so cold/windy/sunless that your shoulders are frozen somewhere near your ears and you haven’t really exhaled in [...]

“The basic unit of you is equal to your radiance plus your activity. That radiance is the mind and the activity is the gross.” —Yogi Bhajan

Sunday night I went to a 2.5 hour kundalini workshop. I’m still sore. The director of Golden Bridge in LA, Gurmukh, who’s written the books and taught the celebrities that have made this studio such a hot spot I guess, was in town for a week. The teacher last week swore the event would fill [...]

Today I finally went to Golden Bridge, the kundalini studio in SoHo that I’d heard so much about. It’s a branch of the hugely popular studio in LA. The space was less immense than I expected; it’s a cozy townhouse with one classroom per floor (and retail on the ground level), fireplaces and couches skirting [...]