Change is afoot at Bodywork Brooklyn! We’ll start out with a little break, coming back later in 2015 bigger and better than ever. Well, I will probably be smaller than I am at the moment, but I’ll have more to offer. Those who have seen me in recent months have likely noted my rapidly expanding belly area and wondered how long…
Tag: yoga
Grateful/When Was the Last Time?
Grateful Long ago, in a land far away (OK, right here, a bit before Thanksgiving), I drafted a post about body gratitude, asking readers when they last took the time to thank their bodies for carrying them through life. I didn’t post it. I wanted to add something. Not sure quite what, but I was inspired by a yoga class I took months…
A Little Rest
I fell asleep in yoga class today. Final savasana, hot room, rain pattering ever so gently outside. It had been kind of a tough class, one of those days where I was acutely aware of tension in the upper traps and some lower back stiffness, and working through and releasing shortened muscles was a challenge. I only slept for five…
Lessons from a Yoga Challenge
I recently completed a 30 Day Challenge at my beloved yoga studio. (I’m using the title yoga challenge somewhat loosely as I was allowed to mix it up and take dance and Pilates instead, but yoga is my first love at Sacred, and it’s mostly what I did). I loved the 30 Day Challenge and the feeling of community that came…
Thankful
It’s Thanksgiving, possibly the most beautiful day of the year over on social media, newsfeeds flooded with outpourings of gratitude, something I generally do a pretty good job living by, but that didn’t feel close at hand this morning. So what do you do when you wake up on the wrong side of the bed (which might actually be a…
Working Toward Stillness
Yesterday, I returned to yoga after a hiatus that began with my 3-week trip and that continued a little longer than it should have upon my return to the city. My wonderful flow yoga teacher announced that we would be devoting the class to Vishnu’s Couch, the side-lying pose in which Vishnu reclined in stillness before creating the universe. That’s…
Sacred Studio
I spent a good bit of this morning drafting a guest blog post for Sacred Studio, the yoga and movement studio where I have taken classes since they opened just over a year ago, growing my own little yoga and movement practice alongside the studio, and where I have recently started to practice massage. The draft rapidly devolved into a…
What’s Available to You
There is a phrase that I’ve heard a number of times in yoga class. Some teachers will say, sandwiched between the introduction to the pose and the places it can take you if you are already super bendy and strong: “if it’s available to you.” As in, “if it’s available to you, reach back and grab onto your heels” in…
Anti-Resistance Training
I recently started attending hot yoga classes. I thought it would be a good fit for me, a girl who is prone to stagnation and who has a great love of aggressive therapies (think acupuncture and gua sha, not, you know aggression aggressive). I was also a girl in need of movement, stretching, new blood, release. It was a good…
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