I know that all of you regular readers know this – I spend a lot of time talking about Nadine. The awesome things she’s been doing, making and sharing. You can pretty much say I’m a Nadine fan. 😉
So, when she asked me recently to write a guest post for her Inspiring Women series, I was all over it.
Emma over at The Joy of Yoga has kindly posted my yoga sequence from the class I taught on Tuesday night.
Writing sequences is a very important skill for a yoga teacher to learn, and hey, I know I’m still a beginner. But I was rather tickled by how well my very swiftly composed class plan worked out on Tuesday night!
Emma’s blog is a self-described wiki for yoga sequences and she recently mentioned she’s always looking for guest posts and so…voilà !! I am kind of nervous about sharing so publicly, but then hey, why not right?
Another cool thing about Tuesday’s class – none of the seven women I taught had even heard of pranayama before that night, and so I gave them their first dose of nadi shodhana – which is wonderfully calming after a busy day at work if the mind has been running non-stop. Here’s a little video I found on You Tube for those who might be unfamiliar with this practice…
On reflection, the class was a definite a mash-up between my Hatha and Shadow training and practice. Several ladies told me how much they enjoyed the class. One even said she thought it was refreshing not to have any surya namaskar going on (truthfully, I had thought about it but because it was only an hour long class and I wanted to include pranayama, I left that yoga class staple out for once!).
Fellow yoga teachers: If you have any comments or suggestions on how my sequence could be improved, I would love to hear your thoughts!
Hey y’all! A review of the wonderful yoga/kinesiology workshop I went to on Saturday is a-coming.
But before that, I wanted to share my latest guest post with you.
The lovely Rachel of Suburban Yogini is taking some time out from her blog to attend a yoga conference. And so she’s lined up a series of guest posts (clever lady, that one), including one from moi!
The guest post is in an interview format, with Rachel asking the wily reporter-type questions.
It’s a little potted history of how I came to yoga in the first place, what life was like pre-yoga and of course, now that yoga is a huge part of my life. And some other stuff, too. But if you wanna find out the rest, head over and read the post!
And don’t forget to stick around for the rest of Rachel’s interview series and her regular yoga blogging goodness.
It’s my response to a whole bunch of stuff that’s been going down on Yoga Dork and Elephant Journal. Linda-Sama, one of my yoga sisters (who agreed with what I was saying when many didn’t), invited me to write a guest post.
Took me a couple of weeks to work out what I wanted to say. Topically, it’s very yoga-related.
It’s a two-parter titled “I don’t know how old yoga is, and neither do you”.
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