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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Yoga

February 10, 2017 by Lucinda Staniland 2 Comments

by Lucinda Staniland Most of us come to yoga with a whole lot of misconceptions about what yoga is. I was no different. Here are some of the mistakes that I made, and lessons that I learnt, as a new yoga student. 1. Asana does not equal yoga. When I started doing yoga I was awed by the strength and grace of the physical practice I saw my fellow students doing. I couldn't wait for the day when I too would move with such beauty. I fell in love with asana. But asana (physical postures) is not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: beginner yoga, flexible, home yoga practice, injury, kundalini, starting yoga, yoga, yoga teacher

How Many Years of Yoga Practice Does it Take to Get Flexible?

December 17, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 14 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant This is an impossible question to answer - at least, to answer definitively, but I'm still going to give it a damn good crack. And with good reason. Despite the fact that yoga has nothing to do whatsoever with flexibility - that flexibility is a side benefit of one's yoga practice and no measure of the depth or strength of one's yoga practice - yoga and flexibility are intimately intertwined in the modern idea of yoga. There's a good reason for this. We are predominantly a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: compression, duncan peak, flexibility, flexible, forward bends, Paul Grilley, Peter Sanson, Peter Sterios, tension

The Conundrum of the Inflexible Yoga Teacher

October 29, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 14 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat One Sunday recently I retired to the beach for 90 minutes to work my way through a set yoga sequence a friend had posted on their Facebook page. It was total luxury. My son was with his uncle, I had no-where to  be and nothing to do, but soak up the sun, the salty breeze, and washing sound of the waves while immersing myself in a yoga sequence. I hated it. Oh, not the scene, or the setting, or the child-free time but the sequence. From the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: failure, flexible, good enough, success, yoga teacher

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