http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress Yoga and health tips from Viniyoga teacher Pamela McDowell Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:02:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello again :) After some time away from this site, I'm back and ready to share a few more yoga ideas. Things for me have been quite busy lately – traveling, completing yoga therapist training, moving to Australia, getting married, visiting parents in town for the wedding... And while my personal yoga practice ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/06/03/travel-yoga/ My recent search on Amazon for yoga DVD's turned up 1588 titles. That is up from 1559 videos a couple of weeks earlier. With such a huge range of videos to choose from, now is where your earlier reflection will come in handy. How to Choose A Yoga Video: ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/03/15/how-to-choose-a-yoga-video-step-3-%e2%80%93-picking-your-video/ If you're wildly confused by the vast array of yoga styles offered in the West you're not alone. I am too. My quick search online was baffling – I encountered so many names for yoga (a few of which were new to me): Viniyoga, Svaroopa Yoga, Sivananda, Kundalini, Kripalu, Kali Ray Triyoga, ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/03/03/how-to-choose-a-yoga-video-step-3-%e2%80%93-picking-a-yoga-style/ By now you've completed step 1 and assessed your current condition (mental, physical, emotional...). If not, go back and read How to Choose A Yoga Video Step 1 (you can do that now or I'll remind you again at the end of this section). Step 2 in choosing a yoga video is ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/02/13/how-to-choose-a-yoga-video-step-2/ Before picking between yoga video titles, there are two important things to consider. Overlooking these two considerations could send you into yoga video misery... picking something that is absolutely wrong for you. With the wrong video you could be merely disappointed with your choice.. or you could wind up hurting yourself. So skip ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/02/11/how-to-choose-a-yoga-video-step-1/ This has been an exciting week. My first yoga video is available for sale online. It's one I made nearly 2 years ago to help my clients learn some of the basics of Viniyoga. Actually, the DVD Viniyoga Basics has been available for online purchase for over a year, but since I processed ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/02/06/celebrating-a-yoga-video-new-beginning/ I've been listening to a book about happiness (Authentic Happiness by Martin E.P. Seligman). The author was talking about pleasures and gratifications and the roles each play in happiness. In his vocabulary, pleasures were things like eating chocolate, enjoying a glass of wine, watching a movie or shopping. ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/02/02/yoga-and-depression/ That's a question I hear often as a yoga teacher. To quote my teacher's often used phrase, “it depends.” How often you practice yoga depends much on why you're practicing yoga in the first place. If you're doing yoga as therapy to relieve a structural condition (such as hip pain or back pain), ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/01/25/how-often-should-i-practice-yoga/ Parts of Colorado have been getting generous amounts of snow the last few weeks. Snow... ...and More Snow After shoveling my walkway every other morning for what seems like ages, I was delighted to see that yesterday's snow had just started falling when I crawled out of bed. That meant ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/01/10/yoga-for-a-snow-day/ Today I called the brokerage company where I've held some of my retirement savings too see what the hold up was. About 6 weeks ago I requested they transfer my savings to my account at another company. They still hadn't done it. And, as it would happen, one stock ... http://www.yoga10.com/WordPress/2008/01/04/stock-market-yoga/