I was inspired to create this flow when working with a client who had lower back pain and a shoulder injury. Warming up with a traditional sun salutation was problematic with the forward folds and downward dogs being moved through quickly, so I was looking for something that would still […]
Naming this article “The Sun Salutation” might be a misnomer, as there isn’t exactly one, but many variations on this building block of modern yoga. Each yoga lineage seems to have their own offshoot of the salutation, and in consulting various texts on yoga, there seems to be nearly as […]
Often when people say the word “flow”, the first place our mind goes to (in yoga) is sun salutations and the vinyasa sequence of chaturanga to upward-facing dog to downward-facing dog. Sometimes your body is just not quite ready for that sun salutation, whether it’s too early in the morning […]
Think about it. When you wake up in the morning and you take a deep breath, stretching your arms overhead as your mind and body try to ease into the day, what is the first bit of tension you feel? Usually we feel the shoulders, the back, the ribs stretch, […]
