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The Difference between Practicing Yoga Postures and Having a Yoga Practice

April 7, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 9 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant There are many people doing yoga poses today, but there are far less people who have a yoga practice. Postures are everywhere - Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, advertising, magazines, yoga classes, yoga retreats, yoga teacher trainings. However, postures do not make a yoga practice. A yoga practice requires at least two other important elements before it can serve it's purpose - that of self-realisation, or of waking the practitioner up from the dream of Maya … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: container, enlightenment, kleshas, maya, samskaras, teacher, yoga practice

The Release of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery + Loving Your Body

October 14, 2014 by Guest Author 1 Comment

Melanie Klein loves her yoga body

By guest author Melanie Klein, Yoga and Body Image Coalition. Anna Guest–Jelley, founder of Curvy Yoga and the co-editor of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery + Loving Your Body, and I both struggled with a distorted body image, our perception of ourselves, from early childhood on. In the process, we tried countless diets and experimented with a variety of fitness trends – all of which left us feeling shame, guilt and punishment for the bodies we lived in. Our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism, Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: diversity, equity, yoga and body image, yoga and body image coalition, yoga body, yoga culture, yoga is for every body, yoga practice

How to Calm an Overactive Mind with Yoga

December 4, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

Yoga pose for an over-active mind

by Kara-Leah Grant There are days when I spend too much time commuting, too much time on my computer, and have far too many balls in the air. My mind feels like it's going a million miles a minute, flitting first from one thing, then to the next. Sometimes this monkey mind is shadowed by anxiety or fear, lurking deep in the  belly and driving me out of my body and up into my head. Sometimes it's just because it's a New Moon and there's something going on astrologically - at least, it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice Tagged With: anxiety, depression, mind, PDF download, yoga practice, yoga sequence

Five things a yoga instructor should never say in class

July 24, 2013 by Guest Author 9 Comments

Vanessa Roberts talks about things yoga teachers should never

by Vanessa Roberts I love me some yoga, and have loved it (albeit sometimes a little inconsistently) for a good solid ten years. While I always seem to learn something new – a new posture, technique or way to relax into my poses – I have also been privy to some cringe-inducing, nose-scrunching phrases muttered by an instructor (or five) of mine. Though most of them can be shrugged off with a simple “ew”, others have left me questioning my instructor's reasons and shaking my head in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Going to Class, Teaching Insights Tagged With: 5 things a yoga teacher should never say, awkward yoga instructors, become a better yoga teacher, funny yoga phrases, lessons for yoga instructors, uncomfortable yoga classes, yoga practice, yoga teachers

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