Tag: healing

  • Bikram Yoga Posture #7: Balancing Stick Pose – Tuladandasana

    Posture #7 Balancing Stick Pose Tuladandasana This 10-second posture is designed to further increase the heart rate to strengthen the cardiovascular system, along with all-over body strength. As in full inversions, including Headstand or Handstand, in this posture you lower your heart below your hips, which sends large amounts of blood rushing into the heart.…

  • Bikram Yoga Posture #6: Standing Bow Pulling Pose – Dandayamana-Dhanurasana

    Posture #6 Standing Bow Pulling Pose Dandayamana-Dhanurasana In yoga, the bow is a powerful metaphor. To hit your target, you must first pull back to the still, quiet point from which you can become clear about your goal, then act with the full power of your intention. The bow poses remind you to dive deep…

  • Bikram Yoga Posture #5: Standing Head to Knee Pose – Dandayamana-Janushirasana

    Posture #5 Standing Head to Knee Pose Dandayamana-Janushirasana The first posture of the balancing series, this posture deepens concentration, as well as builds strength throughout the body. It is a forward bending posture, working to increase the strength of the back and muscles surrounding the spine. This is where you begin to employ one of…

  • Emmy Cleaves on Bikram Yoga

    In one of my favorite articles of all time, Emmy Cleaves, a teacher of almost 40 years breaks down why Bikram Yoga is so incredible. Enjoy. BIKRAM YOGA By Emmy Cleaves Bikram Yoga, sometimes also called “hot yoga,” is a system of a set 26 yoga posture sequence practiced in a room heated to 100+…

  • Bikram Yoga Posture #4: Eagle Pose – Garurasana

    Posture #4 Eagle Pose Garurasana In the first three postures we’ve stretched the spine and strengthened the body in many ways. Now we move into a compression posture– you are going to squeeze your body like you’ve never squeezed anything before. Stopping the compression will release all the tension that’s built up in the previous…

  • 7 Lovely Logics

    Make peace with your past so it doesn’t spoil your present. What others think of you is none of your business. Time heals almost everything, give the time, some time. No one is the reason for your happiness except you yourself. Don’t compare your life with others, you have no idea what their journey is…