How I Teach Pre-Natal Yoga

Here's my thoughts when I teach my pre-natal yoga class:

FYI: I teach Saturdays at 10:30am at The Awareness Center in Pasadena -- see you there!

    

The Benefits of Frog Pose -- Yowza!

The simplest yoga posture can really kick your ass, and make a difference in your posture.  It can even take you to bliss.  Here's me talking about Frog Pose:

Here's how to do the Frog Pose:

Hey Highland Park peeps: Kundalini yoga is taught every weekday at 1st Defense -- they're on Fig & 56th!  The yoga kriya that included the Frog Pose, was from "Awakening The Ten Bodies", which is found in this book:

Pilates and Yoga

Watch this short video, as my friend Barbara Wintroub of RetroFit Pilates, advises on alignment, alignment, alignment (especially good advice for yoga teachers and students alike!):

Barbara has trained world-class and Olympian athletes.  She can be found at:

Retrofit Pilates Rx®

1821 Wilshire Blvd. #540 Santa Monica, CA 90403

Phone: 310 913-3333

  

Simrit Kaur in Concert

Oh boy, I'm so lucky: got to see Simrit Kaur at Golden Bridge Yoga last Friday night.  See photo below:

Simrit's going for that note!

Have you ever been to a concert where all the musicians are sitting down?  And so are you, on a yoga mat?  It's a different experience...very tranquil.

She hit all my favs: Ardas Bhaee, Tithai Too Samarath, and finished with Hey Gobind Hey Gopal (which seemed to last forever, and we wanted it to go on, but all good things must end -- boohoo!).  By the end of it, I was in a trance of bliss.  That woman's voice is amazing!!

Best of all, she and her band came back the next morning at 3:30am, and were part of the Guru Ram Das Birthday Celebration sadhana!!  OMG!  That was something else.  She and Harijiwan read the Japji, and they  played Dhan Dhan Guru Ram Das -- AWESOME.

"I Hate Yoga"

Here's an honest video conversation between my good friend, Gili Wolf, and I about yoga.  I want this blog to be open.  Yoga is not for everyone.  And in a place like LA, where yoga has saturated it like sunshine, it can be hard to express that you don't actually get what yoga's about, or even connect to it.

Thank you Gili for being bravely honest!  Happy Birthday and congratulations on your move to Boulder, CO!  I miss you already.

  

Japji Meditation: The 1st Pauree

"On the first pauree of Japji, my true love gave to me...!" Haha, I'm just joking around.

 Continuing on my quest to learn the 38 paurees of the Japji, watch this video of HarSimran demonstrating the 1st Pauree meditation -- said to lift you from deepest depression, insecurity, nightmares, and loss:

Instructions:

1. Tune-in (Ong Namo, Guru Dev Namo x 3).
2. Recite 1st Pauree x 11. Here's the transliteration.  
3. Close: (Long Time Sunshine, Sat Nam).
4. Do the meditation for 40 days.

Beside being one of the most deeply caring persons I've ever met, HarSimran excels at coaching.  Click here for more information about her Essential Focus Coaching.  Or reach her at (310) 553-7334, email: harsimrank@sbcglobal.net .