Tag: Yoga books
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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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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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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…
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Healthy backs bend in all directions
by Jay Hiller, October 5, 2022 When I was in my early 30’s and had a 3-year-old and an infant, I had almost constant, nagging back pain. I couldn’t figure out why. It added to the fatigue that naturally comes with having young children. And it made me feel old. Eventually somebody told me that…
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Book Review: Radiant Rest–Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity by Tracee Stanley
by Jay Hiller, September 18, 2022 I’ve been teaching yoga nidra classes since getting my initial RYT credential 8 years ago. Yoga nidra is a kind of psychic sleep where your body rests and your mind remains awake. It’s deeply refreshing. I always feel as if I’ve slept after yoga nidra classes. For those who…
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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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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…