complications after “recovering” from Covid 19
Homeopathy for Longhaulers
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How I Quit Smoking
The way I quit smoking was through the use of pranayama (see my recent post on that.) I had been studying yoga seriously for about a year. My band Ira Gobu was going on the road, so we bought a juicer and brought it along. We had heard of the benefits of...
Beautiful Skin With Big Yoga
Yoga is a terrific stress buster!
Top Ten Favorite Yoga Books
Books, books, and more books! In the New Year I like to cull some of my library, but it's really hard! I have so many books on Yoga, and I may not look at a book for several years, but when I need to look something up for reference, or revisit a concept I'd like to...
Take a Deep Breath!
Meera's new book 2020 is going to go down in history as the worst year ever! The Corona 19 virus is devastating countries all around the globe, but especially here in the good old US of A. Have we done the best we could do to NOT spread the virus? I don't think so,...
Jyanthi
The Guru is not just one man in a robe, a beard, and sandals. The Guru is a lineage that spills all pervading Grace down the centuries through embodied channels, where it can flow in a more concentrated form, and pour into your heart. That stream of Grace ignites the...
Big Yoga: An Interview with Meera Patricia Kerr
Meera My interview with Meera Patricia Kerr is the first of a series of interviews with influential teachers who are committed to bringing the benefits of yoga to larger students. I personally studied with Meera Patricia Kerr in 2004, at the beautiful Satchidananda...
Big Yoga: The Plus-Size Practice
Meera Kerr, an Integral Yoga teacher for 30 years, is the creator of Big Yoga. She believes that you don't have to be thin to enjoy the benefits of Yoga - her new book, Big Yoga: A Simple Guide for Bigger Bodies, and a second DVD, attest to that. She's spent the last...
You’re Never Too Old for Yoga
Think you're too old for starting up with Yoga? No way! I'm really grateful that I started learning yoga in the 60's when I was still in my twenties, but that doesn't mean folks my age--mid 70's-- can't start now! There are so many adaptations we can...
What do you want?
There’s more to Yoga than looking good in a onsie.
Yoga Chicago – Book Review
Now more than ever, people are recognizing that yoga practice is not just for young and thin bodies. With an emphasis on health and relaxation, Meera has developed a unique yoga program for larger individuals. She begins with an explanation of what yoga is, the...
Digestive Pose for The Holidays
season of overindulgence
Restorative
Big Yoga started out as a way to invite folks unfamiliar with yoga to get on the mat. Maybe folks were staying away from Yoga because they only saw pictures of super bendy, svelt models doing amazing poses. I wanted to change that! So, after I put out my...
Dry Bones
I've been eating a lot of sugar. At Holiday time, I love to bake Christmas cookies, and this year I really overdid it. After a while, I began to notice my teeth hurting, my bones aching. Sugar is known to leach calcium out of teeth and bones, and I certainly don't...
The Yoga Cure for Hiccups
This is the time of year we are more likely to overeat, which can bring on the hiccups. And once they start--even if we can stop them, they often come back shortly. It's caused by an involuntary contraction of the diaphragm that repeats several times a minute. It can...