Posture

Notice your posture right now. You're probably sitting at your computer with rounded shoulders and back. Notice how it feels. Now uncross your legs and bring your spine up over your pelvis. Pull the belly in and lift your breast bone. Lift your heart up. Take your shoulders back but don't squeeze too hard. (It shouldn't feel like too much effort.) Bring your ears over your shoulders and relax your face. Now how do you feel? Possibly more alert? Better breath? More relaxed? Good posture can even make you look and feel younger and thinner and who doesn't want that, right? Practice this every time you sit. Be conscious. Live yoga.

Yoga Journal Website

For all you aspiring yogis and yoginis, here is Yoga Journal Magazine's website. Put it in your favorites as a reference to articles, pose information, different styles of yoga and specific health and wellness information... http://www.yogajournal.com/

If you're interested in a more intermediate/advanced practice of backbends and hip openers, try this John Friend video. It will only be up for a limited time so check it out soon! http://www.yogajournal.com/video/113

Words to Live By

If you do what you've always done you'll get what you've always got!

Change Is Growth

Change is growth, growth is success. That is a simplification but in terms of succeeding in life you must continually make changes to grow! Sometimes these changes are forced upon us like from our struggling economy. The challenge is to use the change to better ourselves, and most importantly to have a good attitude about it. Your attitude, pos or neg, sets the stage for either you feeling success or failure. In yoga, your attitude is crucial. It makes a difference between uncomfortable and GREAT!

Welcome to My Blog - Being Yoga

Hello! Welcome to my Blog! I hope we can use this to share our insights and questions to further our study of a yogic lifestyle and healthy living. I'd like to share a quote, "Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat" B.K.S. Iyengar. I often hear people say that they'll "start" their diet, exercise, yoga, at a future date. Why not take care of ourselves daily? Is it inconvenience? Resistance to change? fear of success? Even small changes can eventually lead to great health improvements. What is one small health change that has made a difference in your life?