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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

Sharing Sadhana: Why yoga teachers’ home yoga practices can inspire

November 26, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Know what I love about this book? It delivers exactly what it promises. The tagline, on the top of the cover, proclaims: "Insights and inspiration for a personal yoga practice." And since reading Sharing Sadhana, my home yoga practice has been inspired, I've had several 'a-ha' moments of insight, and I've even been inspired to write a book on how to create a home yoga practice and stick to it. Not bad eh? And yet when I started reading it... I was doubtful. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: book, Committing to Yoga, doug swenson, erich schiffmann, home yoga practice, Leslie Kaminoff, Paul Grilley, review, sharing sadhana, victoria bailey

Turning Yin – an insider’s look at Yin Yoga

August 2, 2010 by Jessica Powers 4 Comments

Yin Yoga caterpillar

  by guest author Jessica Powers While my official Yoga anniversary celebrates the January 2001 DVD sale that got me started, I was doing Yoga back in high school without knowing. In the afternoons I would come in the kitchen door, drop my bags on the table and carry on into the dining room: I only ever managed to get a few steps into the dining room before kicking off my shoes and melting down onto the floor. My knees would fall to either side, the soles of my feet press … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga Styles Tagged With: Jessica Powers, Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers, yin

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