by Kelly Fisher, Urban Yoga Kelly, one of our go-to senior teachers, answers questions from readers about how to teach and what to do when issues come up. If you've got questions you'd like to be answered in our blog, email us at editor@theyogalunchbox.co.nz. The Yoga Teacher’s Question: “How do I deal with very different levels of students in the same class? As much as I would like to have all the students of similar levels in one class, it never seems to work out that way. Also, how do I … [Read more...]
Yoga: Contortions, distortions and misunderstandings
By guest author Nanditha Ram, author of Blissful Mom, Blissful Baby I recently read an article in The New York Times about the dangers of yoga entitled How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body. Let me play devil's advocate for a second and say, "yes, it can". Indeed, anything taken to the extreme, has the seeds of the opposite sown in it. And so it is with yoga too. Too much of a good thing... Still, the very idea that yoga is dangerous is preposterous. That said, the way in which we practice an age … [Read more...]