In modern culture, choosing a style of yoga is akin to strolling through the ice cream section at the local co-op natural foods grocer. The choices are many and everything looks good. But why are there so many styles of asana these days? And does it truly matter which one you do? Read More »»
Posts Tagged ‘Shadow Yoga’
Q&A: Scott Blossom on Ayurvedic Cleansing and Balancing Doshas
Posted on July 1st, 2011 by Karen Macklin — Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
Scott Blossom is an Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor, as well as a Shadow Yoga teacher. He lives in Berkeley, California and teaches courses on yoga and Ayurveda throughout the country. He talked to The Sacred Cow this month about cleansing from an Ayurvedic perspective. Read More »»
What Is the Right Time to Practice?
Posted on April 14th, 2011 by Karen Macklin — Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
It’s often said that the best time for practice is just before dawn. This is because the mind and the body are fresh, and because the planet (and the home) is still calm and quiet. Some believe that the electromagnetic waves of the sun create obstacles to practice by raising the energetic currents in the environment, and that this is also a good reason to practice before the sun comes up. Read More »»
Q&A: Mark Horner on Preparatory Practices
Posted on July 10th, 2010 by Karen Macklin — Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
This month, The Sacred Cow talks to Mark Horner, a San Francisco Bay Area-based Shadow Yoga teacher, about the importance of preparatory work in asana practice.
Preparatory work consists of simple, yet dynamic movements and positions that are given to a student to practice before he or she even begins an asana practice. They are an important part of Shadow Yoga, which was developed by master teacher Zhander Remete and is an evolving style of yoga that draws from the shared principles of Hatha Yoga and self-cultivating arts like martial arts and dance.
