Tag: Yoga books
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Something beautiful, Wild Asana
By Jay Hiller, September 16, 2023 The writing in the book Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World is absolutely beautiful. In each chapter the author, Alison Zak, focuses on one yoga pose and connects it to the animal it’s named after. Ms. Zak is an author, yoga teacher, anthropologist…
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Old Lady In Tennis Shoes
by Jay Hiller, August 9, 2023 Photo by Joshua Hanks on Unsplash It’s scary hot and it’s also the first week back at worky work. I’ve been wearing dresses, which in many ways are practical for this weather, dresses with red basketball shoes. When I was 17 and quite overweight I wore a big skirt…
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What if locust pose actually is the answer to everything?
By Jay Hiller, July 12, 2023 It’s a long story why I don’t have a picture to illustrate locust pose. This guy’s cute? Photo by Heiko Haller on Unsplash I’ve been paying a lot of attention to locust pose for about two years now, mainly because a well-known yoga teacher I follow, Jason Crandell likes…
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Book Review: Yoga for Bendy People
by Jay Hiller, June 29, 2023 I won’t give away the reason why the author is wearing a zebra suit. Years ago in yoga class, I would sometimes end up practicing next to a woman who was very very flexible. It was hard not to be envious of how easily she seemed to get into…
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A conversation, not a wrestling match
By Jay Hiller, May 30, 2023 Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash In her book, Yoga For Bendy People, Libby Hensley recommends that foam rollering be approached as a conversation with your body, rather than a wrestling match. By that I think she means that we should approach foam rollering as an inquiry and not…
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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…