At the beginning of the year, I had this crazy idea that I would do the Pilates 100 exercise once on the first day of January, twice on the second day, three times on the third, and so forth, seeing how far I could get. I started to video my 100′s, partly to keep myself [...]
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Yoga vs. Teacher
Your body is your teacher. I point out which way your foot is facing and if the knee is safe in that direction or not. You are the one who feels it and gets it or not. If you are talking aloud or talking to yourself in your head constantly, it is probably a good [...]
Pain
I teach yoga to cancer survivors. A client asked me the other day whether to continue yoga because of his pain. His cancer is causing great discomfort in general, but also because of its location, he finds it hard to move into certain poses because of the pain it creates. His question is, are [...]
Perfect Feet
Recently, a client came up to me and thanked me for saying something nice about her feet the last time we met. I don’t know exactly what I said, but I gather it was along the lines of “They’re your feet so send them messages of love instead of disappointment. They’ll receive those messages and [...]