The February issue of Yoga Journal includes an article by John Schumacher.
Regular readers of the magazine look forward to the monthly Home Practice feature for fully illustrated sequences of ten poses. This month’s sequence is designed to build the strength and flexibility needed for arm balances, such as Bakasana (Crane Pose). Each pose is photographed, [...]
Yoga Journal February 2010 Home Practice Sequence by John Schumacher
Unity Woods: 30 Years
NAMASTE,
It’s such a cliché to remark on the speedy passage of time. Nonetheless, I have to trot out the “how time flies” line to comment on the arrival this year of Unity Woods’ 30th anniversary. To tell you the truth, things are tumbling by so fast and there so much going on that I might [...]
Keynote Address: IYNAUS: Regional New England Conference Iyengar Yoga and the Power of Intention
My thanks to our conference co-coordinators and my dear friends, Patricia Walden and Linda DiCarlo, for their tireless efforts and their deep devotion that made this conference
possible. Thanks also to all you workers and volunteers, in front of and behind the scenes for your invaluable and essential assistance. And, of course, thanks to all of [...]
Yoga Journal: Is Yoga Enough to Keep You Fit?
John is featured in the Yoga Journal Asana Column
When it came to the fitness benefits yoga can or can’t provide, yoga teacher John Schumacher had heard it all. A student of B. K. S. Iyengar for 20 years and founder of the Unity Woods studios in the Washington, D.C. area, Schumacher was convinced yoga provides [...]
Unity Woods Yoga Center Fall 2009 Newsletter
A couple of newsletters back I wrote about how the Unity Woods logo came into being and what my thinking was in creating it, and the significance of the various components. As there wasn’t space then to talk about the three words that appear at the points of the triangle, I said I would do [...]
Spring 2008 Newsletter
By now, given yoga’s broad popularity, many people know that the word yoga means to unite or yoke together. When one moves past the common notion that yoga is mostly about exercise, flexibility, and relaxation and begins to delve into the underlying philosophy of yoga, one begins to encounter conceptually and experientially what this business [...]
