Category Archive: Yoga

The Headstand

The Headstand

Here’s the thing about standing on your head: it’s incredibly easy, once you get up there. And that feeling, of looking upside down at the world …

 

Skinny Russian Girl And the Yoga Studio

Skinny Russian Girl And the Yoga Studio

The first time I saw the Skinny Russian Girl, I judged her in the exact way I dread others judging me. She tiptoed into yoga …

 

Use Your Bandhas!

Use Your Bandhas!

I stepped my bare feet to the front of the mat for Mountain Pose, the way we begin every Ashtanga class. Ashtanga is the same, …

 

Thousands of Radiant, White Heads

Thousands of Radiant, White Heads

Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration I present Exhibit A: “what we chant at the beginning of yoga class every week” (as translated from the …