Author: yogamarathonmom
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Book Review: The Proof Is In the Plants by Simon Hill
by Jay Hiller, September 3, 2022 If you’ve been reading my blog (and thank you if you have) you may have gathered that Simon Hill’s book, The Proof Is In the Plants and his podcast, The Proof, have my attention. I remember listening to my first episode of the podcast and thinking, ‘I hope this…
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Yoga Pose Focus: the subtleties of Janusirshasana (head to knee pose)
by Jay Hiller, September 2, 2022 Shortly after I started teaching yoga, I noticed that B.K.S. Iyengar includes variations of Janusirshasana in almost every yoga sequence of his book, Yoga for Holistic Health. So I started teaching it a lot. It’s not an easy pose for me. My body isn’t particularly bendy. Teaching Janusirshasana and…
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Listen! You can’t use exercise to target fat loss in a specific area.
By Jay Hiller, September 1, 2022 “You can’t use exercise to target fat loss in a specific area of your body,” I told my friend. “I think you’ve told me that before,” she said. I have. And she told me to write a blog post about it. I guess that’s one way to make me…
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How the inversion practice is going
by Jay Hiller, August 31, 2022 The inversion practice is going well. Thanks for reading past that headline. I’ve been doing different headstand variations, including the one above. I think the point of it is that you line your spine up against the corner of the column and that tells you something about your symmetry…
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Cheetos are tastier. Hyperpalatability is a dirty trick.
By Jay Hiller, August 30, 2022 Last week at work, I was slinking past a friend of mine with a bag of pretzels from the vending machine in my hand. They were the third best choice in the machine. The second best choice was an overpriced bag of peanuts, which I didn’t get because one…
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When the only real barrier is yourself
by Jay Hiller, August 29, 2022 Someone I know used to dream that there was a door in her house she couldn’t go past. She was afraid of this barrier and in her dream she avoided the door, though she knew it was there. A few weeks after she left an unhappy relationship she dreamed…
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Adjustable weights, great for a home gym
by Jay Hiller, August 28, 2022 Before the pandemic, I wanted to buy a kettlebell, but I couldn’t decide what size to get. I didn’t want to have to go back in a few months and get a larger size and I didn’t want to optimistically buy something that was too heavy for me. Adjustable…
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Inversions–my current yoga project
by Jay Hiller, August 27, 2022 It’s good to have a yoga project. By that I mean, that it’s good to have a specific pose or a family of poses that you’re working on consistently. I recently decided to shift my attention to practicing inversions. Inversions are fun to work on and they don’t require…
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What do you get when you combine an overactive mind with an underactive body?
by Jay Hiller, August 26, 2022 Yesterday, after work I kept delaying my workout. I was pretty wound up from a full day of stuff and then after we walked the dogs I got a letter that I felt I needed to deal with. My mind was circling around the same set of problems and…
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Be aware and beware of your artificial set points
by Jay Hiller, August 25, 2022 A long time ago a friend was telling me about how her strength training practice was going. She told me how much weight she was lifting and then she said, “And that’s about as far as a woman my age should go.” That is an artificial set point. Her…