Fascia and slow yoga
On the Alteayoga facebook page, I re-posted a piece from Dr. Mercola’s web site in which fascia is thoughtfully discussed. I suggest that you pop over and read it, then come back here. Summing up: Fascia makes up about 20% of body weight and is like a battery pack for muscles. It also transports water in
Yoga classes this week
Cleverly constructed and clearly guided hatha yoga classes. I focus strongly on alignment, mindfulness and breathing. Come along and meet some very cool folks and learn an ancient self-healing method while you’re at it. Drop-in, beginners welcome, bilingual. Secuencias cuidadosamente construidas y claramente guiadas. Me enfoco fuertemente en la alineación, el mindfulness and la
How We Breathe: Moving things around
May 13, 2018
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Introduction We usually just think of the breath as being Oxygen in and CO2 out…if we think about the breath at all. Yoga practitioners may think about prâna. But few of us take the time to contemplate all the other things that move around because of the breath. Most of us know a little about
Updated class times
Jump on over to the “About and Class Times” page for a full listing of my current offering. I must say that I am so, so happy to be teaching more and more classes. To have private students and six group classes per week is an honour. As I always say; Without students, there are
Spring Fair: May 5, 2018 – Save the Date!
The Alfaz Spiritual Foundation is hosting it’s Spring Fair this coming Saturday and you’re all invited! My dear friends Tania Plahay and James Heather very kindly asked me if I wanted to share their table and I accepted. Later, it transpired that some help was needed on the sound technician front, and I was only to
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
In the natural health world, we eschew medication as much as we can for many reasons. In fact, here are many people who take upwards of five pharmaceuticals per day. Between 1988 and 2010 the median number of prescription medications used among adults aged 65 and older doubled from 2 to 4, and the proportion
Series: How we breathe – Introduction
Yoga can teach us many things, but perhaps the most important one is how to breathe. Since I know a lot about breathing, I have decided to begin writing a little series entitled “How we breathe”. I know that, with great frequency, bloggers start of with big plans to write a series, but things tail