Hero Pose for Good Digestion

Hero Pose for Good Digestion

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...

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Yoga for The Voice

Yoga for The Voice

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...

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My Favorite Books on Yoga

My Favorite Books on Yoga

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...

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2016 Here We Come!

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...

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Yoga Dont’s

Yoga Dont’s

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...

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The Current Yoga Craze

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?...

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Well, here we are!

Well, here we are!

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...

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