Yoga is for
Every Body
We are in a season of overindulgence. We move from overeating on Thanksgiving, over shopping on Black Friday, overworking for the next few weeks, and then it starts all over again during the holiday season. Finally, after the New Year, we start to get back to our more...
Wow! Look at that expansive mouth! You can just imagine what kind of sound will come out of that mouth--a big, resonant, glass shattering beller! ; It takes a really strong body to sing in that powerful way. One of my favorite quotes from my days studying opera is one...
I've been studying Yoga for about 40 years now, and have read dozens of books on the subject. I've even written a couple books myself! I thought I would share with you some of my favorites--books that I go back to again and again. At the top of the pile is...
The idea for Stretch and Sing came to me in the fall of 2015. As usual in my creative endeavours, I pulled it out of thin air. I didn't really have a firm plan. It seemed to me that seniors --now that I am one-- need more opportunities to move and...
You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light. Sri Swami Satchidananda The Bible says "You are the light of the world". Yogi Bhajan says " "Travel light, live light, spread the light, be light" Yoga is a light,...
Last week was a busy one, with a radio interview,with Charlie and Eva at Corporate Talk A TV interview with Valerie Lego from ABC affiliate, WZZM's show "Healthy You" and a new blog post on the Junonia website, a clothing company that offers pus-size yoga clothes...
It's a big weekend in Yogaville this year--the centenary birthday celebration of our teacher, Sri Swami Satchidananda, and Guru Poornima celebration. Check out this great video by Sam Eberle to give you a taste of what Yogaville is all about. I can't be there this...
Guru Poornima is the special day during the full moon of July when devotees take time to honor their holiest of holys--their Guru. Gu is a Sanskrit term meaning darkness, and Ru is another Sanskrit term meaning remover. So the Guru is the one who "removes the...
I can still hear my mother yelling across the house to us 4 children to get to bed--and out of her hair! She knew, in her "mother-person" wisdom, that a child short on sleep would also be short of temper. I know how she relished those quiet hours in the evening to...
ouch! Have you ever regretted a yoga class? It's not a nice feeling. Here's some tips to help you avoid the "icks". 1. You feel out of placeThis one's a no-brainer. If the yoga teacher looks at you funny, or says something mean, like "Come back after you've lost...
I love that there is a Yoga craze going on. Everybody wants to get into the act. It's cool, it's hip. It's dope (without using dope that is). Yoga is so money! But are we getting "lost in the Yoga craze"? as Swami Ramananda so aptly put it in the film Living Yoga?...
Or I should say, here I am; launching into Big Yoga's first adventure in blogland... Have you ever wanted to try yoga, but didn't want to go to a regular class because of Your size? Your age? A disability? Well, you don't have to be thin, young, or flexible to enjoy...