Find a comfortable and quiet place to sit for a while. Either sit with your eyes closed or let your gaze be still and unfocused towards the ground in front of you

The solstice is upon us and the days are as short as they’ll be all year. In this time of inward and reflection let yourself rest deeply in supportive, passive yoga poses. This posture is deeply nurturing to tired adrenal glands and kidneys while gently stretching the back, side-body, and neck. And it provides a [...]

Interview with Ryan Patterson from Away Inward Retreats.

In the last year and a half California-based massage therapist Ryan Patterson and his Partner Jason Frahm have taken four groups to Peru for a once-in-a-lifetime cultural experience including hikes to sacred Inca ruins, fire dances, earth offerings and plant ceremonies guided by Andean Shamans, massage, journaling, yoga (of course), Machu Picchu (of course) and a deep commitment to serving 2 local orphanages. I interviewed Ryan about the vision of Away Inward and his mission of charitable outreach.

Feeling tired? Grab your friend and take 10 minutes out of the day for this recharge pose. It’s not often that we sit back-to-back with someone. Just that by itself is deeply relaxing, (it’s definitely more relaxing if it’s someone that you know and trust,)  add in a gentle twist and restorative backbend and let [...]

In the winter our posture often becomes closed by hunching shoulders and keeping the head down to protect ourselves from the cold weather. Spending long days sitting, reading or working at the computer and generally living in a world that doesn’t always invite openness can all take a toll on the posture as well. These [...]

Lita is an amazing teacher who has practiced with many senior teachers for 14 years, but has spent the last 6 years studying under the guidance of Shandor Remete, the founder of Shadow Yoga, and his partner Emma Balnaves.

Yesterday marked 8 years since the tragedy of 9/11. I hope that we (as a world full of beings) have grown, at least in some small way, in our understanding and acceptance of other cultures and faiths. I’m not a political scientist or historian, I don’t know enough facts or statistics to speak about them [...]

As a dance and yoga person, I have become somewhat of a connoisieur of movement photographers. It’s not an easy thing to capture the essence, fluidity and prose of the body in motion. I posted earlier about Dan Schmidt in Boulder, who does wonderful work with yoga asana. I’m happy to have found another photographer [...]

Darren Rhodes performs every asana from Tadasana to Savasana for the making of the poster. Very inspiring! http://vimeo.com/2516383

Deepening one’s understanding of yoga philosophy (as well as asana) often requires at least a minimum level of familiarity with sanskrit words and symbols. Not all of us have what it takes to learn the Devanāgarī (the divine script), so luckily we have the internet! Health and Yoga has published an online yoga glossary of terms [...]

Pattahbi Jois passed away on May 18th this year. He was born July 16, 1915 Take a look at this wonderful article on his life and biography from Alex Medin and the folks at Centered Yoga. http://www.centeredyoga.com/pattabhi-jois.html

Two years ago my dear friend Ryan from One Yoga in Saskatoon brought me to a 3-day workshop with Reverend Father Joe Pereira while he was visiting Toronto. To this day that workshop is one of the most vivid examples I have ever had of the true transformative peace that can come from a yoga [...]