Month: August 2013

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(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-43082761-1', 'yogaeleven.blogspot.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); Today and tomorrow i was supposed to attend an interesting workshop about anatomy under a yoga perspective. I could't because i waited to book online until this morning at 7.30, on the website there was no cue about being sold out but i couldn't book, i called and, of course, the course was full... this is the effect of procrastination in your daily life... you have already planned to do something but you procrastinate in taking the necessary steps... procrastination will usually lead to consequences you won't like... procrastinate to

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Let's give a look on the benefits of yoga on your bones! Most is connected to the bone remodelling we examined in the previous post... In a sedentary life or everytime your bones don't receive enough stimuli they tend to lose strenght, there is a principle always working in our bodies (and more, it's a kind of universal principle)... use it or lose it! Whatever you don't use or move or stimulate... it will tend to perish... imagine your car or motorbike or bike or boat... do you use it? well, you will give it some physiological maintenance but it

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(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-43082761-1', 'yogaeleven.blogspot.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); Tomorrow, 7th August, I'll be teaching a class different than usual! It will be a foundation class, to explore all muscles and joints of the body, understand how they work, physically touch them to initiate a new relationship with your body... on the deepening of that relationship we'll work on all next classes! It won't be focused on poses or vinyasa, we'll really take our time to feel the body, to gently massage it, we'll try to create a new channel to communicate with it! We'll start with some breathing,

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The benefits of yoga for your joints are various. To begin we improve the range of movement of the joints (this is part of the flexibility that yoga will gift you, we'll talk more on it) and the new extended range of movement permits to the synovial fluid (see previous post) to access a bigger surface of the joint thus increasing its lubricating effect and bringing more nutrients and oxygen as well as removing more carbon dioxide and waste material from the areas around the cartilage. This is very easy to comprehend... if the range of movement of the joint expands, the area

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Let's try to understand more the concept of yoga as union... I would say that to have a union you need some parts that together form a whole, isn't it? The union of the parts makes the whole, ok? Let's imagine 2 wheels, 2 brakes, 1 handlebar, 1 frame, 1 saddle, 1 chain, 1 crank, 2 pedals and something else... all this stuff can be very nice to see, maybe all new and shining... maybe you can use some of them to prevent a pile of paper sheets from flying away in the wind and maybe those paper sheets are

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