Category: Yoga
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Face Yoga
by Jay Hiller, January 6, 2023 Some of the exercises I’ve been doing look a lot like this. Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash Over the last 2 weeks or so, I’ve been dabbling in face yoga, both through my yoga streaming service and a book of exercises. I don’t know how much it’s doing…
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On my reading list
By Jay Hiller, December 15, 2022 I’ve owned this book for quite a while and haven’t read it yet. I bought it because for while I was following the authors’ blog, Yoga For Healthy Aging and it was full of good ideas. The blog has since become Yoga For Times of Change. I thought they…
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A Yoga book for Core Stability and Back Pain
by Jay Hiller, November 17, 2022 Pathways to a Centered Body: Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain and Moving with EaseBy Donna Farhi and Leila Stuart (2017) Embodied Wisdom Publishing If you’ve ever wanted to understand how your back works, why it hurts and how to manage back pain, this may be…
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Another Good Yoga Book
by Jay Hiller, November 11, 2022 The Yoga Practice Guide: Dynamic Sequencing for Home Practice and Teachers by Bruce Bowditch, ARS CIVES, 2011. If you have a consistent yoga practice already, you might get a lot out of this book. It’s designed as vinyasa sequences at foundational, intermediate and advanced levels. It also has modular…
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Streaming Yoga Review: glo.com
by Jay Hiller, November 2, 2022 I’ve been a yoga teacher for 8 years. I know how to plan a sequence and lead a class. I also get tired of my own ideas. My favorite streaming service is glo.com. I’ve used it for years. I like the variety of master instructors as well as the…
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Bee Sting Yoga: Today’s Yoga Practice
by Jay Hiller, October 23, 2022 The weather was beautiful in Austin today and there was almost no boat traffic on the lake. Nobody came to my SUP class so I got to do my own practice on the lake, which went well. It was nice to be out there after traveling last weekend. I…
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A good yoga book, ginger tea and monarch butterflies
by Jay Hiller, October 21, 2022 Monarch butterflies and ginger tea Monarch butterflies and ginger tea are my favorite things today. I’m thrilled to see so many monarchs in my yard. And ginger tea is helping me with the congestion that’s been bugging me this week. It’s a complex recipe–take a plug of ginger and…
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A good laugh
by Jay Hiller, October 11, 2022 Yesterday afternoon, I watched Mexican Week on the Great British Baking Show and found myself laughing out loud a couple of times. I love the goofiness of that show, the corny jokes, the way the diverse group of contestants tries to help each other. And as a Texan, I…
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Are human beings hard wired to be near water? Wallace J. Nichols thinks so
by Jay Hiller, October 10, 2022 Every Sunday I teach a SUP yoga class on Lake Austin. Teaching the class is fun, for sure, but my favorite part is the 15 minutes or so I have to myself paddling the big float out to the buoy we anchor it too. My boss says it’s the…
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If you don’t have time for restorative yoga, you’re the very person who needs it the most
by Jay Hiller, October 7, 2022 I had a jittery vibe going on tonight. Some things that I chose and that I knew would be hard–whadayaknow–they are challenging me. I’ve had a few minor disappointments this week that all boil down to I can’t control everything. Losing the illusion of control is the worst thing…