Sublime

How far should you go into the pose? Go as far into the pose as you can while comfortably maintaining the alignment described. It is only beneficial to do the pose with correct alignment. You should be on the “edge” of your stretch, that is, feeling sensation but not pain. If you are complacent changes will not occur; if you are overly ambitious

So, a self-appropriate practice is one in which our proprioceptive sense guides us to congruency. This is the invitation for us to find our own kind of yoga, one that speaks the language of our own essential body dialect, written in its fascial form. That form is inclusive of the muscles and wraps the bones, profoundly invested with fascia and

This point of view emphasizes the element of the unknown in the search for understanding in both science and yoga practice, and in a sense brings Einstein and B.K.S. Iyengar onto common ground;

Yoga practice is about expanding and strengthening circuits in the mind-body that are less frequently used, and repatterning those that are inefficient.

For each pose I have divided the practice instructions as follows: 1. Placement 2. Pose 3. Variations 4. Aids

B.K.S. Iyengar, a master of Yoga, says, “the traps belong to the back, not the neck.” Then shorten your armpit muscles even further so they pull your shoulders into your body.

quotes the verses from the Gītā where Kṛṣṇa says: “Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you give away, whatever austerity you perform, do it as an offering to me”

To develop fully compliant movements, our body needs to be well differentiated,