Liberated Yoga
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Archives: 2012
Install a Dimmer Switch In Your Pelvic Floor
Many beginners tell me how they feel disconnected from certain parts of their body - usually it is the areas that are in poor alignment or have a lot of tension. When we begin to re-connect to those areas, at first all we can do is a simple "on" or "off" command. For example, the pelvic floor. The pelvic floor has 16 muscles, but it is best to think of them as one, since they work in concert. It is helpful to visualize the muscles of the pelvic floor as a hammock, ancho...
Add a Ritual to Your Practice...
...and watch your practice deepen and become transformed. Adding a few simple steps before you begin your daily Yoga practice can help you go deeper, stay more present, and get more out of your practice, even if a few minutes is all you have that day. There is a lot of research now coming out about the benefits of mindfulness meditation, and we can incorporate some aspects of mindfulness into our daily Yoga routine to elevate it from mundane, tiresome, and obligatory as it may sometime...
Fifty Shades of Neutral Pelvis
Ah, neutral pelvis, that Holy Grail of body awareness when we finally realize that pelvic tilt has such profound consequences! When we begin to pay attention to our posture first in the Asana class, then in our daily lives, neutral pelvis is often a mysterious and elusive concept that once grasped opens the door to unlimited potential. It is all in the pelvic tilt! Neutral pelvis allows us to have access to the true deep core muscles (as opposed to the superficial ones), it creat...
What is Kundalini
Kundalini is a concept we often encounter in Yoga philosophy and literature, and it is often a murky concept with contradictory and confusing information. Kundalini is most often described as a snake, coiled at the root of the spine and blocking the energy from entering the central channel or Nadi, of the body, called the Shushmna. The body is believed to have many nadis, several thousand, in fact, that carry energy in the body. There are three main ones, ho...
What is Yoga?
Yoga, as defined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, is the stillness of mind’s fluctuations. It is not something you do, rather, it is a state of mind where the person is experiencing union with the moment, with the action (or stillness) of that moment - and actually, both simultaneously. It is not a state where you "tune out" or "zone out", but rather a state where you are completely plugged in. Engaged with the moment fully, entirely, completely, 100 percent with the vibran...
