Today was a really interesting day in Yoga Anatomy. We learned anatomy of the mouth as it relates to breathing, aka Sanskrit. Did you know it’s the only language that is 100% consistent in rules of grammar, pronunciation, and spelling? Artificial intelligence translations used it as their base language for that reason. Anyways, the point [...]

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 [...]

J. Brown alerted me to a piece of legislation approaching the New Jersey legislature that would attempt to require state legislation for fitness professionals, including yoga teachers. If passed, NJ teachers would be required to get a 300-hr certification from the state (superseding Yoga Alliance), renew a $150 license every two years, complete 25 hours [...]

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 [...]