Why add a resistance band or hand weights to a yoga practice? Yoga is a great way to improve your overall strength, balance and flexibility, but there are some limitations in terms of how we can increase our strength. For example, in yoga, there are many ways in which we can build the muscles inv... Read More »

Does your back feel stiff when you first wake up in the morning? Or maybe you feel achy and uncomfortable after sitting for a while. Here's a short practice you can do that will help gently move the spine in all directions so that you can alleviate tension and stiffness in the body. This is a sho... Read More »

What is chair yoga and who is it for? Chair yoga is an accessible and convenient way for anyone to practice yoga. Chair yoga is for ANYONE - whether you need the support of a chair or not. Chair yoga is simply yoga that is done using a chair. Many traditional yoga poses can be modified for the ch... Read More »

Do you wake up with a stiff back or have low back pain after prolonged sitting? Low back pain and stiffness are common problems that can be exacerbated by long periods of inactivity, such as when we sleep, sit at our desk, or in a car for too long. Sometimes, just a few minutes of mindful breathi... Read More »

We often strive to find a balance within our work life and personal life or find balance within ourselves emotionally, mentally and physically. Yoga can help us achieve balance in these areas AND it can also improve our actual physical sense of balance. As we get older, our balance can diminish ... Read More »

Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving forward.~Albert Einstein Aging is inevitable. We are all getting older every day and we are certainly are not alone in the aging process.  In our culture, aging is often viewed as a negative process and there is an assumption that... Read More »

Have you heard about all the great benefits that yoga has to offer and you want to try it out but you don’t know where to start? Are you reluctant to walk into a yoga studio because you don’t know what you will be getting yourself into? Maybe your image of yoga has been influenced by the media, w... Read More »

3 Ways Yoga Can Relieve Stress Stress is a part of life and we all experience it. And stress is different for everybody. What is stressful for one person might not be for another. But there is a definite physiological response in the body that occurs when someone is undergoing something that they... Read More »