from the searches…. “the reason of hand and leg bending”

“the reason of hand and leg bending”
For one,
the reason of hand and leg bending is muscles.
Nerve impulses sent to muscles
to contract and release,
ions releasing and traversing
allowing Z plates to rachet together,
release one another, to come together again.
But why the impulse? why the message?
Isn’t this always the question?
Perhaps it was a flower, or a baby,
perhaps a [...]

So the Psoas…

I write a lot about the psoas because it’s been such an important structure for me to pay attention to in my own practice. I’ve struggled with hip pain for more than 20 years and trace it back to structural abnormalities (I was born bow-legged and pigeon toed and had surgery, casts and braces to [...]

“laxative yoga stretch”

… this was a search that led to this blog. So I think that if someone is in need enough to type this in, they deserve an answer: forward folds in general will help move bowels and specifically child’s pose (balasana), wind relieving pose (on your back, pull your knees into your armpits) and happy [...]

Yoga and Emergencies

Sometimes people have difficulty processing that I am both a Paramedic and a Yoga Teacher. To me, it’s the most natural thing in the world. The yoga actually allows me to be who I need to be on duty, and like anyone else, my life gives heft to my yoga practice.
In an emergency, you really don’t [...]

Stepping forward

Sometimes moving forward is a matter of just letting go. Ishvara Pranidanana – trust, surrender. Sometimes it seems we have no choice – the sweep of time, the press of activity can be like an airport walking ramp leaving us lusting for a moment to stop and savor, reflect and process.
But other times, stepping forward [...]

some of the searches that led here yesterday:

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Lovely dogs, get on your knees, bow your
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I think my favorite is the lovely dogs as I’m surrounded by them. I’ve looked on the internet for a camel pose quote, to no avail…. but I do wonder what it is.  I also wonder whether feet jeans thumb was looking for hitchhiking information…
 In other non-sequitorial news…
sometimes [...]

Frequency: vacillating between AM & FM

More important than Repetition: Frequency. No, not the REM song… but imagine a sin wave (the trig function…not a sudden eruption of immorality): each complete wave is a cycle, a bleep. Radio frequencies, sound frequencies of all kinds are described in Hertz (or megahertz) – cycles per second.
Each wave of practice, each cycle is complete [...]

Repetition

“How many times do I repeat…” comes up a lot in the list of things people searched to get to this blog.  Here are some guidelines I use … perhaps other people will chime in with their own.
First, what is the purpose of repetition?  I can think of several reasons I’ve had… meditation, heat production, increasing [...]

Resurfacing

I’ve missed this journaling and the seemingly haphazard but wonderfully rich intersections with others’ lives it affords. I’ve also enjoyed the absence of a need for description. Sometimes this is laziness, avoiding second-order awareness; sometimes it breeds clarity when we return. Fingers crossed for clarity!
In the meantime, visited the grandfathers at Chaco, hiked and yogad, though [...]