Tag: #restorative yoga

It’s November! Winter is coming. The midterms are coming (have you voted yet?). And so are warm cups of tea – all day long, cozy robes, down jackets, and fleece blankets. It’s not either/or, it’s both/and. We need to be in reality, in this current phase of the year, and this current time in history, […]

We have Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar to thank for bringing us the deeply therapeutic practice of Restorative Yoga.  Back in the day prior to the sophisticated yoga props that we are accustomed to, Mr. Iyengar (or as he is affectionately called, “Guruji”) used to gather bricks out of the street and place them under specific areas […]

When I was first introduced to the Restorative practice over a decade ago, I can remember exactly what I felt: both disappointment and relief. Disappointment that we would not be doing a strong, challenging practice bound up in the wall ropes, weighted down by sandbags and pulled apart with partner work (all at the same […]

A few months ago I wrote about my struggle with asana practice. After nearly eighteen years of practicing yoga I hit a wall unlike others before. I felt that I was done, that I had done triangle pose long enough, thank you very much, and was ready to graduate and move on to other pursuits. […]

Every Wednesday morning I used to attend a level 2-3 Iyengar class with my longtime teacher, Jo, until she retired from instructing Asana some years ago. I was religious about going, thrilled to learn and practice the precision of Iyengar with more challenging postures and alignment. I always left that class feeling like I had […]