It’s no secret that yoga and surfing go well together and have many aspects in common. Both yoga and surfing have clear benefits for both body and mind, and as I learned when I finally stood up on the face of a green wave last year, yoga can seriously complement and help enhance surfing performance through flexibility,…
One of my favorite things to do when I travel is to try out new studios and join classes with new teachers (read more on how to choose a studio while traveling). To date, I have written about my experience with The Yoga Room in Hong Kong, Satori Yoga in San Francisco, Move Yoga in…
Read on for some tips on how to practice “corpse” pose! The benefits of Savasana, or corpse pose, are endless: it allows your nervous system to balance out and calms your sympathetic nervous system (responsible for your body’s “fight or flight” response); encourages your heart rate, blood flow and breath to normalize; helps to prevent…
Game of Thrones madness swept across the globe, and much like the yoga community, Game of Thrones fans are from different backgrounds and places around the world. For my fellow Game of Thrones-loving yogis, here are some poses to practice to channel the characters from the series. (Spoiler alert for those of you who haven’t…
Growing up, I was “blessed” with good skin and had no major issues, even throughout my teenage hormonal years as I watched many of my classmates struggle with acne, psoriasis and eczema. That all changed in college, when I started going to yoga classes at the student gym in an effort to decompress from the stresses…