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Don’t Despair the Tear

November 9, 2021 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

By Veronica King, Teaching Yoga and navigating a labral hip tear. Monday night, advanced yoga class. Parsvakonasana, a warm-up pose early in class, and as I anchored my legs and rotated my body upwards, I felt a rip inside my groin. I nearly screamed, tears streaming down my face through the rest of the class, wondering if this was the last yoga class I might ever do, knowing something BAD had just happened.  It turns out that labral hip tears are common amongst dancers, yogis, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Physical Practices, Practices, Teaching Insights, Uncategorized Tagged With: injury, teaching yoga, Yoga anatomy, yoga teaching tips

Is It Good to Go Deeper in a Yoga Pose?

January 11, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland 1 Comment

by Lucinda Staniland For all the years I’ve been practicing yoga, I’ve always strived to ‘go deeper’ into the poses. In fact, I thought this was the point of asana. In the name of depth, I’ve pursued an ‘open heart’, and ‘release’ in the hips. Whatever the pose—lunges, backbends, twists—I’ve had an image in my mind of precisely how the pose should look, and the depth that I need to reach to achieve the perfect alignment. I’ve stretched my hands to my toes in standing forward bends, sunk deep … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: Yin Therapy, Yin Yoga, Yoga anatomy, yoga injury, yoga teacher training

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