By Susi May, FitSugar Getty Images Mat classes are the most affordable way to reap the benefits of Pilates. Taught across the country at gyms and private studios, group classes mean you don’t have an instructor cuing and correcting your every move. Make the most of your time on the mat and be mindful of [...]
by Michelle Dumovich, NC Sometimes it seems no matter how much food we eat, we want more. But, let’s face it: Eating more is not always great for our health. Food cravings can be especially destructive to our health. Here are a few tips to get them under control. What are you really hungry for? The next time you have a [...]
Oh January, you saucy minx. Pretending you’re all timid and quiet, posing as the calm, sometimes melancholy hangover after the holiday rush. But we know you better now, don’t we? When we declared 2012 to be the year of the Doer, we weren’t expecting Action Jackson right out of the gates! But hey, if yoga [...]
Just for good measure, CNN takes on yogagate with their own redundant response to the hubbub over The New York Times “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” (which we all know is part of a book, yes?) complete with frustrated yoga teacher, dramatic voice-overs and menacing words in quotes (see below, and above). But they do [...]
So there’s this book. You may have heard about it, or perhaps had a few opinions after that newspaper published a big article about it. The book is set to be released, as often books do, and there will be many more opinions to follow, also known as reviews. Here are some of the first [...]
Those California hippies have done it again! Oh, we kid the westie yogsters (with blatant envy). Have you ever broken out your yoga stretch in the airport or pulled a header waiting at your gate? (when you’re not tossing them back at the bar, that is.) If you’re flying in or out of San Francisco [...]
January 2012 is Yoga Freedom Month. Did you know? The yoga community has come together in unity in the past to support varying causes from cancer cures to rebuilding Haiti. Yoga Freedom Project, a new organization co-created by Off the Mat NYC leader Heather Snyder, is on a mission to unite the yoga community to [...]
"…it's not magic. It's neurobiology." Stressed in yoga class? You’re doing it right. Sort of. This article from Alex Korb, Ph.D. at Psychology Today stresses the importance of finding the calm in stressful situations, like twisted triangle and dealing with squares. (see what we did there?) From what we know about stress it does have its [...]
by Frances Sheridan Goulart Sustained movement along with appropriate placement of that shoulder, leg or hip plus careful alignment and a considered trajectory for each part of the body. We know these bundled cues as the principle of Precision. But did you know that Precision has a crossover value? What’s good for the transversus, in [...]