Monthly Archives: February 2011

Teaching Beginners: A How Not-To

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

  Let me tell you how not to teach a beginning yoga class: Back at the beginning of my stint teaching our Yoga Basics class at It’s All Yoga, I was an earnest young teacher with a lot of ideas. … Continue reading →

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We’re all going to die! Now try and relax.

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

I recently received a snippet of newsletter from a yoga studio suggesting that as your yoga practice progresses, you might want to swap corpse pose (the reclined relaxation at the end of asana practice) for a sitting meditation. This, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Death and Dying, Letting Go | Tagged , , , , | 10 Comments