Core Strength for Yoga
Workshop with the lovely Deepika Mehta demonstrating some useful exercises to strengthen your core for yoga.
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Preparing for Back Bending
In this instructional video Deepika shares some of her favorite ways of warming and opening the body for backbending.
Fluidity & Isolation Drills
This really is a fun workshop that you can easily follow along with. I think this one was my favorite of the three workshops we did with Deepika. Mark Robberds and I are led through some great loosening up drills by Deepika and then Mark shows how this can be related to the postures. We also spend some time looking at opening and strength drills for postures like handstand. Sorry the sound isn’t as good as usual we had a…
Ashtanga Everyday Essentials
Of course you can just do your normal Ashtanga practice everyday following one of the sequences and for some people that will be plenty and their body will respond and change. For some students, myself included a bit of extra work is useful, identifying your tighter areas, or strength weaknesses and allowing time to focus on them. Here Deepika Mehta shares with us some of the homework she likes to do for her Yoga.
Deepika Mehta Interview
Stu Girling talks to Deepika Mehta about how Yoga and positive thinking helped her meet the challenges of dealing with a bad injury, and her twin passions of Ashtanga Yoga and Dance.