Keep Your Cool with Finger Yoga!

By Jinjer, on July 20th, 2011%

Okay! It’s supposed to be 100° today. How about another yoga trick to help you handle the heat?

Channeling the cooling energy!

There is a mudra (hand position that channels energy) you can use in conjunction with the cooling breath. It is called the Shunya mudra (or the Heaven mudra). It eases nausea and helps with hearing problems, and regulates the . . . → Read More: Keep Your Cool with Finger Yoga!

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Fun for Your Back and Innards

By Jinjer, on June 21st, 2011%

Click on image below!
4twists . . . → Read More: Fun for Your Back and Innards

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Holiday Yoga

By Jinjer, on December 15th, 2010%

This is the season. Snow is falling. Holiday social commitments are filling up the calendar and somehow, in the tiny cracks of time between them and work, there is gift shopping to do and a life to run.

Little Sparrow Coping with the Snow!

Whatever holidays you’re celebrating, there is likely to be an element of stress utterly contrary to the spirit . . . → Read More: Holiday Yoga

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Are You Hot Enough Yet?

By Jinjer, on July 13th, 2010%

I’m reminded that however miserable I might be in the heat and humidity, nature is luxuriating in it.

But you and I can take the cooling breath and maybe handle the heat a bit better. The explanation follows the photo.

The important part is the shape of the tongue! If you are unable to shape your tongue . . . → Read More: Are You Hot Enough Yet?

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Make Room, Make Room!

By Jinjer, on May 21st, 2010%

I have a confession to make. While I have been studying yoga since my philosophy of yoga course in college, for quite a while it was an off-again and on-again thing. Always, in the on-again phases I felt like the yoga was putting my body back together. Once, however, the off-again phase lasted for years.

When I . . . → Read More: Make Room, Make Room!

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From Ice Skates to Palm Tree

By Jinjer, on April 25th, 2010%

Strengthen your ankles . . . → Read More: From Ice Skates to Palm Tree

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