Asana School – The Anatomy of Marichyasana D
Stu digs deep into Marichyasana D from an anatomical perspective.
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Asana School – Laghu Vajrasana
This posture is featured in the first third of the Ashtanga Intermediate Series. It requires a lot of leg strength but you can build it up gradually with some use of blocks.
Asana School – Bhujapidasana (knees on the shoulder posture)
This is such a tough posture when you are new to Ashtanga. Just to get you legs crossed around your arms seems to defy gravity. Then once you can do that someone tells you to bring your head to the floor. What? And then come back up again. No Way! But somehow through magic and such like things change and one day you think what was all the fuss. Hope this little video helps where ever you are on your…
Asana School – Janushirasana C
Never has been my favourite posture. But with a bit of care it can be ok.
Asana School – Prasarita Padottanasana
About half way through the standing postures in Ashtanga you find Prasarita Padotanasana, not an overly complicated posture but still presents some challenges. There are also some things that we can be doing in this posture to get the most out of it.
Asana School – Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)
Asana School returns this time looking at standing posture Trikonasana. What could be more simple than making a triangle with the body? Well it turns out lots of things.
Yoga Sequence for a deeper Upavishta Konasana
This is a sequence I created to work on increasing the depth of the forward fold in Upavishta Konasana. It works on combining strengthening with opening the body in the key areas that contribute to the ability to fold flatter. This is a posture that I have always had difficulty with so I thought it was time to give it a bit of extra attention. Please do go easy to start with and build the intensity over a number of…
Julian Baker Interview: Functional Fascia
I had the great pleasure of doing a course with Julian Baker recently and took the opportunity to interview him about all sorts of fascia, movement and yoga related things.
Gentle Yoga Sequence
This is an easy sequence that I use as a warmup for a tougher yoga session or on days where I am not practicing just to keep loose. I gave gone quickly through the postures here but plan to spend 8 to 20 breaths in each, so the session could easily last 45 min.
Utthita Parsvakonasana (Side Angle) and Revolved
Utthita Parsvakonasana (Side AnglePosture) and Parivrtta Parsvakonasana (Revolved Side Angle Posture) These are nice postures and offer the chance to create some space on the side body but they are not necessarily that straight forward.