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  • Bikram Yoga Posture #3: Awkward Pose – Utkatasana

    Posture #3 Awkward Pose Utkatasana Awkward Pose is a powerful strengthening posture, and when done with Deep Breathing, Half Moon and Hands to Feet, it also concludes a sort of warm-up section in which you generate internal heat and loosen the muscles. Awkward Pose is very challenging for many people, making it excellent for instilling…

  • Bikram Yoga Posture #2: Half Moon Pose with Hands to Feet Pose – Ardha-Chandrasana with Pada-Hastasana

    Posture #2 Half Moon Pose with Hands to Feet Pose Ardha-Chandrasana with Pada-Hastasana In Half Moon, you begin to open up the whole skeletal system, including the spine, neck, ribs and scapulae. Your entire body then opens like a beautiful, blooming flower. This will include your first backbend, which is incredibly therapeutic. Next is Hands…

  • Bikram Yoga Posture #1: Standing Deep Breathing – Pranayama Series

    Posture #1 Standing Deep Breathing Pranayama Series The first Bikram posture is Standing Deep Breathing – Pranayama series. This breathing exercise settles you into a relaxed, calm and controlled mindset, heart rate and breathing pattern. The focused breathing prepares you for the rest of the ninety minute practice by recentering your focus inwardly and brings…

  • Introduction to Bikram Yoga

    Bikram Yoga is the twenty-six posture sequence selected and developed by Bikram Choudhury, widely popularized in the early 1970s. Synthesized from traditional Hatha Yoga techniques, this posture sequence systematically moves fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of the body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as nature…

  • My Childhood Heroes

    My childhood heroes are a pretty impressive bunch, I must say! I’d be proud to be compared to any one of them. As a child, I was less inhibited by the internal and external motivations of an adult. Life was simpler, less complex, less confusing, closer to being true to myself. My young, innocent self…

  • 201 Photographs of Children

    Somewhere over the course of me growing up I learned to stop being annoyed by the little buggers and started deeply appreciating children for the refreshing bundels of joyous ignorance that they are. Perhaps it’s my biological clock that’s got me kickin for kids. Perhaps it was my developing social and emotional maturity that’s helped…