Happy St. Patrick’s Day! As we celebrate with green clothes and green beer, I wanted to talk about green food: powders, recipes, and leaves, of course. Eating more leafy greens and other vegetables is one of the easiest ways to improve your diet and your health. I strive to eat them every day. There are also […]
Author: Your Body Best
Can You Do Yoga for Weight Loss?
I came across this article the other day showing a yoga for weight loss sequence. The sequence, which is basically the second half of a variation on the classical sun salutation, is challenging. If you do a lot of them, you will increase your heart rate and maybe even get sweaty. And that’s not the […]
Yoga Vocabulary 4: Yoga Pose Names
It might seem like you’ll never manage to learn the names of all the yoga pose names — and that might be true, because there are thousands upon thousands of poses and variations. But you will learn a lot of them (even in Sanskrit!) as you continue your practice. Here’s where it gets confusing: some poses […]
Cookie Dough Balls Recipe
I love cookie dough, but it’s not really something you should eat that often. (Or at all, considering raw eggs. But you know.) Almost more than that, I love finding recipes that taste indulgent but are almost healthy enough to be lunch. This cookie dough balls recipe is one of them. It’s a Sunfood Superfoods (affiliate […]
Classical Sun Salutations
Sun salutations (surya namaskarasana) are a classic yoga sequence. You might have noticed that they vary a lot, depending on who is teaching. None of it is right or wrong. It’s all yoga, it’s all good! In Akhanda yoga, we start with the classical sun salutations. Sometimes, when you’re trying to follow along with a class […]
Downward Dog is Not What You Think It Is
Even people who know nothing about yoga have usually heard of downward dog (Sanskrit: adhomukhasvanasana). It’s a classic pose. It appears in almost every yoga class. But the pose you’re thinking of is not downward dog at all. It’s close, and maybe that’s where the confusion came in. Maybe it’s because the real adhomukhasvanasana isn’t […]
What Style of Yoga Do You Teach?
“What style of yoga do you teach?” has been my least-favorite question ever since my first teacher training in 2007. Because here’s what I learned there: yoga is yoga. Yoga is good. Many of these style names you might be familiar with are generally inventions of the West, and have often served to create little […]
Transitioning With Grace
There are big changes ahead. Which, let me tell you, I love. I’ve made a sort of career of it over the last six years in particular: Chile, Argentina, Panama, then Colombia, with multiple apartments and neighborhoods in each of those places. There’s some transitioning on the way that I’ve been thinking about for awhile, […]
Falling Off the Wagon (and Getting Back On)
I just spent 11 days in Mexico City, visiting my friend and checking out that great city. As you might remember, up until September I was a happy 90% vegetarian. At that point, I committed 100% to prepare for my upcoming yoga teacher training in India, where we would be served a strict yogic diet. When […]
Ashram Daily Life
I suppose ashram daily life varies a bit from ashram to ashram, but one thing I know for sure: the routine will always be consistent and strict. I don’t mean strict in a bad way, but with a sense of discipline. In fact, that might be the word I could use to sum up ashram […]