Beautiful Backbends

When I first started my own yoga journey backbends were seldom in my practice. I could do some of the basic poses, but would never do them properly, dumping too much pressure on my lower back. My shoulders were too tight and my back muscles were almost non existent to support a beautiful and energizing […]

Surya Namaskar: A Salute to the Sun

Chances are that if you’ve been to a regular Vinyasa yoga class or taken one online, you’ve done a Sun Salutation. They are perhaps the most common sequence of poses within all forms of yoga asana. You may have heard your teacher say “Surya Namaskar” before going into the sweaty flow that is the sun […]