by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, certified Iyengar Yoga teacher First, if you are reading this blog, you have taken the form of a human being; karmically speaking, this precious human life we’ve been given is very hard to come by. As human beings, we grow and develop outward—engaging with the phenomenal world via our […]
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Yoga Blessings for a Happy, Healthy Holiday Season!
by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, certified Iyengar Yoga teacher This is the time of year when we add more tasks onto our already burgeoning “to-do” lists. Our busy lives get even busier, and we don’t devote time to nurturing ourselves. This can cause us to experience the side effects of a life not lived […]
How to Practice Yoga, Part II
by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, certified Iyengar Yoga teacher This is the bad news: The word yoga has been reinvented. Much of what is being sold to the public as yoga is hyper-focused on the practice of postures, which is less than 1 percent of what yoga actually is. While an asana (posture) is, […]
How to Practice Yoga, Part I
by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, certified Iyengar Yoga teacher “Alignment is enlightenment.” —B.K.S. Iyengar For more than 10 years now, I have been teaching Iyengar yoga, the method of hatha yoga developed by world-renowned yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar. Affectionately known as Guruji to his pupils, Iyengar was renowned for his majestic demonstrations of yoga […]
Yoga for “Falling Back”
by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, certified Iyengar Yoga teacher This is the time of year I call “bummer”—it’s not quite fall and not quite summer, either. My heart aches as my hands pass over the shorts and sandals in the closet and reach instead for pants and shoes that cover my yoga toes. When […]
Yoga for Men, Part II: Closed Twists
by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, certified Iyengar Yoga teacher Dear Male Yogis, Last month, in Yoga for Men, Part I: Forward Bends, we learned a sequence that shines some light on poses that are both challenging and necessary for men’s bodies to practice. We started the process of stretching the muscle groups around the […]
Yoga for Men, Part I: Forward Extensions
by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, certified Iyengar Yoga teacher Dear Male Yogis, I am a female yoga practitioner and teacher, and I confess that for a very long time, I didn’t understand the challenges you face, particularly with forward bends. As my teaching skills developed, I began to observe the keen differences between the […]
Yoga for That (Nagging, Aching) Pain in Your Butt
“The science of Yoga is the eradication of sorrows.” —Prashant Iyengar, yoga teacher, author, and son of Guru B.K.S. Iyengar There are some things in life that we cannot change and others that we can. I recently moved to a new state and learned that if I want to register my car in said new […]
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Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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