10 minutes
Box Breathing
About Pranayamas
Breaking Down Trikonasana
Biotensegrity: your muscles are not levers
Chakras Express: The Light That Guides Them All
Suzee Grilleys “Twisting the Dragon”
Suzee Grilleys “Animal Parade”
Suzee Grilleys “Walking the Dragon”
Walking the Dragon is Part of Suzee Grilley’s “Animal parade”. A series of animal flow like movements. This serie is mostly strengthening the legs and working on balance. It’s not long but quite intense, especially when you do it a little faster. The sequence is: Stork, Owl, Flying dragon, back stance (retreated dragon), reaching dragon, […]
Circum coxae iuncturam: around the hip
Circum coxae iuncturam, fancy Latin for: around the hip joint. In this very short 10 min class we move all the structures around the hip joints, stretching the muscles around and lubricating the hip joints themselves. It’s the ideal class to do in a short break or right after work when you where sitting for […]
Easy meditation
Samskara’s: patterns of behavior, can we change or develop them?
We all have samskara’s or patterns of behavior stored in our chakras or we developed them in this lifetime. Samskaras can be bad or good, however they will influence our lives. During meditation you can ‘discover’ certain samskaras and work on changing them. Another thing is to develop a good samskara to change bad ones, […]
The Eighth Limb: Samadhi
Samadhi is the culmination of our efforts, when the veil of illusion falls and our consciousness expends and perceives the entire universe. It is a state of bliss, of profound love and wisdom, when yogis become aware of their immortal and perfect Self. In other words: it is indescribable and impossible to fully comprehend with […]
Limbs Six and Seven: Dharana & Dhyana
As we continue the explorations of the Eight Limbs of Yoga, we come into Dharana and Dhyana, In my own understanding those two work together beautifully: one is the effort that slowly calms the mind, the other is the effortless experience of that calmness. Like when learning to play an instrument, first we need the […]
The Fifth Limb, Pratyahara: breaking free from the senses
The power of our senses can rule all our lives, enslaving us to everything that gives us pleasure and making us blindly run away from everything that gives us pain. Yogis teach is that learning to withdraw the power of the senses and to conserve that energy leads us to internal – spiritual – experiences […]
The Fourth Limb: Prana is not breath but what makes us breathe
The Third Limb: Asana, taking care of your meat suit
Does the body work the same as an inanimate object?
The fourth niyama: svadhyaya, know thyself
The third niyama: Tapas, the Flaming Arrow of Discipline
Nadi Shodana pranayama
Brahmacharya – let’s talk about sex
The ‘almost’ perfect Tadasana
Chakras Express: Svadhisthana, second chakra
Continuing our light exploration of the chakras, we now concentrate on the second center, Svadhisthana. This chakra, localised between the lower belly and the sacrum, regulates many functions in the body, specifically related to our kidneys, urinary bladder and sexuality. This is a extremely powerful center; as with all the others, the power here can […]