The Inner Alignment Blog
As a yoga teacher for 20 years I have always believed the best kind of yoga has been attending a class in person.
And that just ain't happening these days.
So, what has taking yoga online from your own home taught us?
1. It's just as easy for me to show up for myself as it is for me to not show...
When your energy is feeling off, everything feels off.
Your chakras hold so much energy and can bee a pathway to healing the wounds of the past.
I have been working with, teaching about and healing clients with the chakras. There are so many dimensions to them and in this practice I keep it...
My whole life has been a search for love and a journey to my spirit. I started my search with my family and friendships. My journey led me to an engineering university and a year abroad by myself.
Yoga found me when I was just 20. My heart told me I had to share it as a teacher – that it...
The Yoga Sutras is an ancient book outlining the practice of yoga. It shares with us the basis of how yoga has been practiced throughout history. Some people may claim that the Sutras have little to do with how we practice and teach yoga in today’s world where we focus primarily on the...
Most people who study the Yoga Sutras get their first taste of them in their Yoga Teacher Trainings. I love that teachers start seeing the wholeness of yoga from the beginning of their training. Unfortunately, most yoga schools only give a little nibble of the Sutras in their trainings. Rarely do...
In my previous post I gave you a brief history of the yoga sutras and who wrote them, Sri Patanjali. Most people are introduced to the Yoga Sutras through their Yoga Teacher Training. Today, I want to provide clarity around how I believe YTT’s are not giving a complete look at this...
The Yoga Sutras in my opinion is a book filled with timeless wisdom that is offered in a sort of mystical way, and I love it! At first they can be hard to understand. The first time I read them I felt like I couldn’t relate or apply any of it to my life -- it was hard to grasp the concepts...
Shakti (Sanskrit transliteration is Ĺšakti) is the divine feminine energy that pervades our world. It is creativity, power, and matter. Everything on this earth is made up of shakti energy. It’s all shakti, patterns and patterns of shakti. Activating your shakti is a way to tap into...
Yoga has been a part of my life since I was 20 – a young college woman traveling the world looking for balance and health. That’s when I picked up my first yoga book and started to practice the breathing and physical practices. A few years later I discovered the philosophy...
I’ve had a couple interesting conversations recently about the fact that we don’t have mirrors within the practice space at my yoga studio. To me it seems quite clear why we don’t have them. And yet, through my conversations I realize that we are a bit of an aberration for...