Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Inauguration Weekend, Yogi-style
Check out this post on Yoga Buzz, written by yours truly about my pre-inauguration yoga activities. Did anybody else do anything interesting over the inauguration weekend? I thought I saw YogaDawg sniffing around Dupont Circle.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Uma Thurman Does Yoga?
My Google alerts finally paid off. Get this:
"Uma Thurman stunned passengers by doing a yoga routine on a recent flight."
The woman did what every yogi has thought of, but has never done. Apparently, she used the flight attendant station as a prop and spent about 20 minutes doing her practice in the aisle.
"Uma Thurman stunned passengers by doing a yoga routine on a recent flight."
The woman did what every yogi has thought of, but has never done. Apparently, she used the flight attendant station as a prop and spent about 20 minutes doing her practice in the aisle.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
The Seated Psoas
It’s time for asana practice. Do you know where your psoas is?
It starts on the lumbar spine, ends on the femur, and flexes the hip. But actually feeling it requires awareness and guidance. So, why bother to dig through the recesses of your pelvis to discover your buried pair of psoas muscles?
Discovering the psoas can lead to a whole new world of asana experience. Whereas most people spend their days sitting in chairs with constricted psoas muscles, most asanas are enhanced when the psoas is released.
For example, a relaxed psoas in Baddha Konasana (Bound Angle Pose) relieves tension in the lower back and releases the knees closer to the ground by allowing the groins to open. (Liz Koch explains it much more accurately and eloquently in Release Your Psoas.)
Do you know where your psoas is? If so, what new observations has it led to in your asana practice? Any new emotional observations?
It starts on the lumbar spine, ends on the femur, and flexes the hip. But actually feeling it requires awareness and guidance. So, why bother to dig through the recesses of your pelvis to discover your buried pair of psoas muscles?
Discovering the psoas can lead to a whole new world of asana experience. Whereas most people spend their days sitting in chairs with constricted psoas muscles, most asanas are enhanced when the psoas is released.
For example, a relaxed psoas in Baddha Konasana (Bound Angle Pose) relieves tension in the lower back and releases the knees closer to the ground by allowing the groins to open. (Liz Koch explains it much more accurately and eloquently in Release Your Psoas.)
Do you know where your psoas is? If so, what new observations has it led to in your asana practice? Any new emotional observations?
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