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The Ups and Downs of Mastering Squat Pose

December 4, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Transition pose - the squat. Seems simple, but there's a lot of power one can cultivate here.

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the fourth Creative Sun Salutation Abundance flow here on The Yoga Lunchbox. This week we explore a transition posture as we move from the front of the mat to the back of the mat - an important part of working with circular sun salutations. In this particular variation, I'm using a squat to make that transition, which gives us a greater sense of our roots or foundation. Squatting is all about our relationship to the earth - we have to both surrender downward … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: abundance, malasana, squat, video

Exploring How to Release the Iliopsoas Muscle Group in Warrior I

November 26, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

How we move our limbs through space can creates certain feeling states.

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the third Creative Sun Salutation Abundance flow here on The Yoga Lunchbox. This week we move into the heart of our abundance sun salutation, moving through variations of Warrior I pose. Most of you will be familiar with Warrior I, yet no matter how many times you may have done it, there's always something to learn. Taking time and playing within each pose, separating out the components of it, is a masterful way to learn the posture from the inside … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: hip flexor, iliopsoas, warrior I

How to Cultivate Abundance on the Yoga Mat Part 2 {video}

November 18, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the second Creative Sun Salutation flow here on The Yoga Lunchbox. As with the last six-part series, the first two episodes in this series are free for anybody to access, and the final four are for Insiders only. (You can become a member of Inside the Box here.) This week we add on to the beginning of our abundance sun salutation, moving through halfway lift, high plank, low plank, upward dog, downward dog, three-legged dog and knee to nose. Most of you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: abundance, core, Mula Bandha, sun salutations, Uddiyana Bandha, video

How to Cultivate Abundance on the Yoga Mat Part 1 {video}

November 11, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Abundance comes from the way we're connected to what nourishes us and the way in which we open ourselves to give & receive

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the second Creative Sun Salutation flow here on The Yoga Lunchbox. As with the last six-part series, the first two episodes in this series are free for anybody to access, and the final four are for Insiders only. (You can become a member of Inside the Box here.) When I teach and practice yoga, my tendency is to work with different energies on the mat, cultivating those energies as required, depending what's going on in my life at that time. This particular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: abundance, Lotus Mudra, online yoga video, shakti, Sun Salutation, uttanasana

How Yoga Trance Dance™ Destroys World Weariness and Opens Up Creative Flow

October 20, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

yoga trance dance in action

by Kara-Leah Grant If you know me, you know I love dancing. Always have, ever since I saw Flashdance at age 8, and got hooked on the original Fame TV series. That was me... always dancing. But there was never any chance I could become a professional dancer because I had zero flexibility, plus at age 16 I had a spinal fusion. (I still remember the first day I danced again after that operation... the doctor said three months, I gave it two.) However... life moves in mysterious ways and in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga Styles Tagged With: dance, Prana Flow, shiva rea, yoga trance dance

The Well-Seasoned Yogi: Eleven Tips for Older People on Getting Started with Yoga

September 12, 2014 by Guest Author 2 Comments

Eve, forty three years of yoga practice and nearing her 70th year.

by guest author Eve Grzybowski, Yoga Suits Her A colleague of mine says; "If you can breathe, you can do yoga." Is that really so? Given that there are hundreds and probably thousands of yoga postures and practices, how do you go about choosing classes? In today’s climate with its infinity of yoga styles, what is the best choice for you? “Well," ... as the great Indian teacher, T.K.V. Desikachar was fond of saying; “It depends.” The class you choose or the practice you do depends on variables … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: Elderly, Eve Grzybowski, inclusive, Older Yoga

An Overview of Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga

September 10, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

This article is an edited extract from K-L's new book, The No-More-Excuses Guide to Yoga, from the section called Yoga History, Philosophy and Concepts. It's a huge topic area, but in seven chapters, there is a succinct overview of much of the territory you might come across in yoga class - including Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga.  by Kara-Leah Grant, author of The No-More-Excuses Guide to Yoga One of the most famous of the yogic texts is The Yoga Sutras. These were either written by, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: eight limbs, Matthew Remskis, Namas, patanjali, The Yoga Sutras, Threads of Yoga, yamas

Launching a Foundational Guide to Yoga for Beginners and Beyond

September 3, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

Pre-orders now open. Shipping September 24. See below. by Kara-Leah Grant Cast your mind back to your very first yoga class. What did it take to get there? Did you have to overcome any fears or hesitancy? Were you nervous? Did a friend take you? Was it a great class - or a bad experience? Did you keep going to yoga, or did you walk away for a few weeks, or months, or years before finally going back? Did it take you a while to find the class and the teacher that was right for you? Most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: gift, YEPT, yoga book

How to Find Your Perfect Yoga Class After Relocating

July 26, 2014 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Andrea Leber, author of BEST of YOGA: Melbourne I’ve lived in Germany, France, Hungary, and Malaysia, then spent seven years in the UK and finally, two years ago, moved to the other side of the world: to Melbourne. Apart from the usual challenges relocating always throws at you (no matter how often you’ve gone through the whole process!) if you’re a dedicated yogi, one particular challenge is finding a new place to roll out your mat. No, not just any yoga studio, but somewhere that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations, Yoga & Community Tagged With: Andrea Leber, Best Yoga Class, Guide Book, Melbourne, Melbourne Yoga Classes, Perfect Class, Relocation, yoga class, Yoga Guide, yoga teacher, Yoga travel

How to Uncover the Treasures of the Chakras through Yoga

July 23, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Back in 2000 I was living with chronic back pain including agonising spasms, searing sciatica on the right side and a right foot that was half numb, meaning I walked with a limp. I had no faith in doctors because I'd had a spinal fusion eight years earlier (aged 16). I'd felt like like the doctors I'd seen then or since didn't understood my back or what was causing my pain. Yet I dutifully took myself off off to the Whistler Medical Clinic to get x-rays and see if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Practices, The Foundations Tagged With: back issues, chakras, chronic pain, yoga course

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