Gunas

Isn’t it interesting when yoga teachers, students, food and  many other things are classified by 3 gunas: Sattvic, Rajasic and Tamasic.  Each category has its own nature, characteristics regardless it’s a human being or an object. Suddently for a second, i think that this universe comprises only human being, objects and  energy. Dont ask me [...]

Asana

“The yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas and makes it a FIT VEHICLE for the spirit. A soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly” – BKS Iyengar I didn’t really understand these beautiful words until I deepened myself in yoga practice lately. At this stage, [...]

Lession Plan – For Navasana

Opening:  Good morning everyone. I’m Trang, welcome to my yoga class.  Today we’re gonna work more on abs. One the asana which requires much of ab work is Navasana. Of course, it also requires flexibility of harmstring. But dont worry, we will also focus on that to get you into the asana. Let’s start. First [...]

Asana Technique – Purvattanasana

Getting into the pose: Sit with legs stretched in front and place hands behind the back on the mat. Drop head backwards,  stretch sternohyoid muscle to keep neck and throat relaxed. Inhale, lift hips high. Push and extend feet into the floor In the pose: Contract transverse abdominis plus gluteus maximus, strengthen rectus femoris to [...]

Anatomy – Camel Pose

Agonist muscles The gluteus maximus muscles, the largest muscles that make up the buttocks contracts  The vastus lateralis, the biceps fermoris, the semitendinosus and the semimenbranus, collectively called                harmstring muscles at the back of the thighs contract The contraction of the above mucles make the forward movement of the hips. Antagonist mucles The iliopsoas stretches [...]

let go and explore yourself

Body flexibility is considered as oneof  the requirements of doing yoga asana.  If you are not flexibile, you gotta work on it. Different asana requires flexibility of different muscles. Some people are born naturally flexible, some are not. That’s when some asana are easy to flexible people whereas they take much effort of some. There [...]