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Dealing with Loss…
3 days ago, my hard disk crashed. There I was, feeling extremely smug that just the night before, I had backed up all my data from my Mac onto Time Capsule. And for the 2 years that I’ve had the…
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Ogden – The Inappropriate Yoga Guy
This is just too funny…!
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Bakasana Vinyasa
Yogi: Oon Zhihong
Location: Victoria Island, Canada
“Initially we had called this the Ostrich get-away stance, and had a good laugh at it. But having done more Yoga, I realised this is actually part of a flow sequence where…
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Vrksasana
Yogi: Mosey
Location: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
“In preparation for our friend’s Hen’s Night later in the evening, Mosey was getting ready to be the Tree that would support the drunken bride-to-be, back to the hotel and safely into…
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PTSD: How can yoga help?
In March 2010, I had gone to Cambodia to attend a short workshop by Hart Lazer, on using Yoga to deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. As part of his Karma Projects, Hart travels to Cambodia twice a year…
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Starting your day with Sun Salutations
Surya Namaskar, otherwise known as Sun Salutations, can be the warm up to your practice, or, a complete practice in and of itself. Over time, the poses linked in a series will lengthen, strengthen, flex and extend both the big…
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Yoga heals from A – (well… almost) Z
So you’ve heard. Yoga is this 5000 year old miracle that everyone is talking about. You read it in the papers, you watch it on the television, you have heard it from your father/mother/brother/sister/son/daughter/aunty/uncle/boss/colleague/dog/cat and even plant, your doctor recommends…
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Is Yoga a gendered practice?
Many would say “Yes, it is for women”.
And it isn’t difficult to see why one would feel that way. Step into any Yoga studio these days, and you will see women outnumbering the men by at least FOUR…
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Savasana (Corpse Pose)
When I first started yoga, I remember feeling like this pose was such a waste of time. I wanted to move, try new poses, do new things, GO GO GO! But as time passed, I started appreciating the effects…
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Balasana
Location: Potato Productions, Singapore
(A strange exchange before the photo was taken…)
Dawn: “I’m going to do child’s pose! I bet its everyone’s favourite pose!”
Me: “Go ahead!”
Dawn: “My sweater is on back to…
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Simhasana (of some sort…)
Yogis: Me (left) and Cara (right)
Location: UBC field, Vancouver, Canada
“Taken at Camp Moomba, a 108 minutes Yogathon fundraiser for children living with HIV. This is how all fund raisers should be!!! Fun, meaningful, and held outdoors under…
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La-HAHAHA-ghter Yoga
“Laughter in laughter clubs is the purest laughter because it is not for any reason. It is not directed at others but we learn to laugh at ourselves.”
-Madan Kataria, founder of Hasya (Laughter) Yoga
According to Madan Kataria, an…
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Adho Mukha Svasana
Yogi: Monica Choo
Location: Gill Divers, Singapore
“I was doing my Dive Master theory at Gill Divers, and I decided to ask Mon to do a Sun Salutation series for me. This picture in particular stuck out, and its…
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Bhujapidasana (Shoulder Pressing Pose)
Bhujapidasana (Boo-jah-pi-dah-sana), is a pose that looks a lot more difficult that it really is. This pose is not one which relies on strength, but rather, its a matter of finding that balancing point with your feet and your…
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What to do when Cancer strikes?
Sitting in the hospital these few days, watching my grandmother drift in and out of sleep, I can only wonder how yoga can help someone in the 4th stage of Cancer. It wasn’t a case of us having known and…
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Utthita Parsvakonasana (Extended Sides Angle Pose)
Utthita Parsvakonasana (oo-TEE-tah parsh-vah-cone-AHS-sanna) is quite a mouthful to pronounce, so for those who are more comfortable hearing the English name of the form, it simply translates to ‘Extended Sides Angle Pose’.
Utthita, means ‘extended’, and parsva refers to the…
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Utkatasana (Chair Pose)
Its funny that Utkatasana (OOT-kah-TAHS-sana), or what we have come to know as Chair Pose, is no where near what the sanskrit word actually means. Utkata, stands for ‘powerful’ and ‘fierce’, and sana stands for ‘pose’, or ‘posture’. So…
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Can Yoga relieve my back pain?
Now that the heat from Bikram yoga has somewhat sizzled off, Yoga therapy seems to be the next big thing to hit the studios. But just how effective is yoga in treating chronic back pain?
In a…
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Adho Mukha Svasana (Downward Facing Dog)
While doing my 200hr RYT , many of us in the Yoga Teacher Training struggled with remembering the sanskrit names of the asanas. However, for the sheer number of times that this particular pose was mentioned, it is one of…
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Hatha Yoga
Hatha Yoga, also called Hatha Vidya, is a system of Yoga introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a sage of 15th century India, and compiler of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. In this treatise Swatmarama introduces Hatha Yoga as preparatory stage of physical purification that the…
