Oversized yoga mats
I just bumped into Square 36′s oversized yoga mats. What a fantastic idea. Regular yoga mats, as they point out are great for optimising the number of people in a yoga studio, but not great for optimising your yoga or workout space. I wonder what shipping to the UK on one of these puppies costs?
Looking for Ancient Tibet
A documentary that went in search of isolated power places in East Tibet to find the last living holders of a thousand year old Yogi tradition.
Yantra Mat Review
It seems to me that my two year old has become the resident customs official and postmaster general of my household – nothing gets through the door without her say so and pretty much all post gets opened and inspected by her before it is handed over to its rightful owner with a flourish and [...]
How to fall asleep
I just spent about 30 minutes lying on one of these which has been sent to me to review….. End of the week, I’ll post up my thoughts on it
Yoga to the people
WRXPEUBVF3HF I found Yoga to the People at the simply peachy. How awesome is the idea? Seriously. Someone should open one of these in London! There will be no correct clothes. There will be no proper payment. There will be no right answers. No glorified teachers. This attitude towards teaching and learning, not just yoga, [...]
The Five Tibetans
I’m never sure what to make of the story in my dog eared copy of The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth by Peter Kelder. Some of it reads like an absolute fairy tale, but there is no denying that the actual exercises presented make a really good, if brief, set of yoga. I’ve [...]
The Yoga Cult
An interesting article about a cult that used yoga as one of its draw cards. And in a similar vein, here’s a little something on Fake Gurus. There’s a lot of thought provoking info in both of those articles. It is always sad when people use something like yoga to basically enslave others when true [...]
Kick start your new decade yoga with a little blog reading
We are well into the new year now, and it’s just about that time when the novelty wears off and we really start to flag a little on the old new year’s resolution. So, to help you out on a chilly Monday morning in the office (possibly your first work day back from the festive [...]
Make training a habit
New Year’s Eve always brings out the resolutions. I know many people use the new year as a time to renew their commitment to their training – yoga, tai chi, pilates, music, makko ho whatever it is.
Yoga and the Tabata Method
Even though I’m an advocate of slow, relaxed and dare I say gentle exercise, variety is the spice of life. I’ve been playing around with the tabata protocol a few times a week – using it as a good morning workout when I’m short on time as so often happens around this time of year.