Category: Yoga

Fitness Tips - LOOSEN UP WITH NAKED YOGA

Sure, yoga is one way to get buff, but practicing in the buff??? And I’m not talking about in the privacy of your own home either.
No, I am talking about the booming new trend of Butt Naked Yoga!
From New York to Salt Lake to San Francisco to Atlanta, practitioners are raving about yoga […]

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Posted in Yoga, Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Living on May 18th, 2007 by yogamama  3 comments   

Healthy Living Tips - DESSERT FIRST

Last Sunday, yoga class started with Shivasana.
For those of you not yet fluent in “yoga-ese,” Shivasana is a reclining pose of total relaxation and restoration typically done at the end of yoga practice, after completing the more challenging poses.
But on this particular Sunday, […]

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Posted in Yoga, Eating Healthy, Healthy Living, Nutrition on May 9th, 2007 by yogamama     

Healthy Living Tips - How to Meditate: A Beginner’s Manual

My husband’s preferred relaxation technique has always been playing hours upon hours of games on his X-Box. But even he has admitted that while the screaming and yelling his games provoke can be somewhat cathartic, X Box Olympics aren’t exactly the best way to center his mind.
Still, I was speechless when the other […]

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Posted in Yoga, Healthy Living on May 8th, 2007 by yogamama     

YOGA MAMA

About 10 years ago, I was a student living in Boulder, Colorado. I was of many gals still stuck in the 80’s dictates of kick your ass on the treadmill and eat no fat, lest you become a flabby pig.
While facing work-out burn-out, I had become intrigued by a woman who I never saw […]

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Posted in Yoga, Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Living on Apr 23rd, 2007 by yogamama     

GET THE YOGA/AYURVEDA CONNECTION

So, it looks like you’re a yoga officionado, huh? Double thick yoga mat? Check. Flare-leg, low rise, yoga pants? Check. Nag Champa incense sticks? Check. Genuine understanding of the meaning of Ayurveda?
Uh, isn’t that the type of massage they’re running a special on at the spa? Maybe, but it is so much more than […]

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Posted in Yoga, Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Living on Apr 9th, 2007 by yogamama