Mangesh Dhale
An Introduction to the 4 Types of Yoga My initial yoga session was a fiasco. I entered a room where I thought I would enjoy some stretching and soothing music only to realize that I was sweating buckets in a room with temperatures of 105 degrees, and could barely keep up with a series of …
My Journey to 5 Parks Yoga: Why I Left the Studio for Good I admit, I was stagnated in my yoga practice. I had been sitting and sleeping in the same sterile studio over the years and had been staring at the same section of the wall listening to the hum of the air conditioner. …
Life-Changing Padmasana Benefits I recall how I first spotted someone sitting calmly in Lotus Pose, otherwise known as Padmasana. It appeared to be a physical task that could not be performed by anything but a handful of the most qualified yogis. I had never supposed that I would have it as my anchor one day. …
How a Simple Mantra Transformed My yoga yoga yogeshwaraya I recollect that I sat on my yoga mat and felt like a complete fraud. I was in a downward dog position, yet my mind was a million miles away, it was running through a to-do-list, it was recounting a stressful work discussion, and it was …
My Journey with Garud asana To be truthful, when I attempted Garudasana or Eagle Pose, the first time I attempted to practice it, I was a rat. I crossed my arms the wrong way, my leg supporting me was waving as a leaf in the breeze, and I had no doubt I did not appear …
Dhanur Asana I would be frank to really say that I had a very poor relationship with my back. Several years of stooping over a laptop had given me a backache, a dull pain that seemed to be a housemate. I did it all–ergonomics, spending money on chairs, heat pads, and even my old mattress. …
My First Foray into Arm Balance Yoga Poses: A Humbling Start I will not forget my first actual attempt at an arm balance. It was at a hectic studio, and the teacher was floating in Crow Pose as though gravity were an imaginary force. Instead, I stuck my hands, huddled my knees, and then I …
My Journey with the Pose Revolved Side Angle Pose The first time I got to see a person in full, beautiful Pose Revolved Side Angle Pose I was convinced that there is no chance that my body will ever be able to perform such a position. It was something of a human contrivance, a deep …
My Journey to Finding Calm: An Introduction to Restorative Yoga Poses I hit a wall. It was midweek afternoon and the ping of emails, my to-do list, and the anxiety-induced low grade humming had exhausted me. I was fatigued and wide-awares at once, never, indeed, able to rest even when I was at liberty. I …
Backbend Yoga Poses I would tell you that I was scared of backbend yoga poses all along. It was unnatural to think of bending back, scary. I would have had back pain down to my lower back most of the time, and the thought of placing even more stress in the lower back appeared to …