Tag Archive for ‘john schumacher’
March 2011 Newsletter: The Yoga of Teacher Trainings, Free Women’s Yoga Lecture, New Ashtanga Teacher, David Garrigues
Finally March has arrived and we can begin to wake ourselves up from our long winter’s nap. In March, we clear away the clutter from the windy cold winter to allow the new green sprouts to show their color. We plant seeds for what we want to grow and blossom this spring and summer and [...]
03/10/11 3:52 PM
John Schumacher on the Yoga of Teacher Trainings
This month our featured offering is part of a series of discussions offered by Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher, John Schumacher. Each quarter John hosts a free discussion at his Unity Woods Yoga Center in Bethesda, Maryland. This month the topic of discussion is the prevalence of Yoga Teacher Trainings and how to navigate these potentially [...]
03/3/11 12:15 PM
Salamba Sarvangasana – Supported Shoulderstand
Listen to the Pronunciation of Sarvangasana. Courtesy of the Online Sanskrit Pronunciation Guide. Inverted Poses are some of the most beneficial poses yoga can offer. This is obvious to seasoned yogis and why shoulderstand is referred to as the Queen of Asanas and Headstand is referred to as the King of Asanas. Because we spend [...]
02/22/11 5:36 PM
February News 2010 – Free Meditation with Erich Schiffmann, New Teachers and Upcoming Features
Love is in the air this month. And if it’s not, we need to ask ourselves, ‘Why not?” There have been many a February in my life where I did not have a significant other and often felt lacking and inferior in the days leading up to Valentine’s Day. What I discovered is that sense [...]
02/18/11 2:06 PM
iHanuman Newsletter January 2011 – Invoke Ganesh for Auspicious New Beginnings in the New Year
The Solar New Year has returned again, not only ringing in a new year, but a new decade! It is a time most of us vow to rid ourselves of the excesses of the holidays in favor of resolutions for our highest expression of ourselves. In yoga or the Hindu Tradition often associated with yoga, [...]
01/28/11 10:40 AM
iHanuman Newsletter December 2010: Can Yoga Save the World?
After a month of gratitude, it is time to answer the question, What Impact can the practice of Yoga have on the World? In the spirit of giving, we have several Complimentary Pieces of audio for you to help answer this question. Our feature this month is a discussion with Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher, John [...]
01/5/11 4:15 PM
Day 3: Personal Sequence for Enlarged Thyroid
Yogas Citta Vritti Nirodah – Yoga is the cessations of the fluctuations of consciousness. One of the health challenges I face is an enlarged thyroid. I work with a local MD/OMD and have gained the skills to assess a few of my relatively minor, albeit “complex”, health issues. I take a few different Chinese Herbal [...]
12/24/10 9:22 AM
Can Yoga Save the World?
If people walk the eight – limbed path of yoga they do not harm, do not steal, nor do they lie. They are more clean and healthy, more moderate, more content. If the reason we walk this planet is to know God then we cannot see ourselves as separate from. When we see ourselves as [...]
12/2/10 1:21 PM
iHanuman Newsletter November 2010: What are you grateful for?
November is Gratitude Month at iHanuman. Our intention is to make gratitude a daily practice, and in an effort to set that practice in motion we are encouraging you to join us by posting something that you are grateful for every day during the month of November. We hope your posts and comments will help [...]
11/17/10 12:39 PM
Gratitude Day 7: Recognition and Relief of Pain
Yesterday morning I spent 3 hours in a backbend workshop with John Schumacher. I already mentioned to John that I have a sacro-iliac injury that was the impetus for me to start my yoga practice back in college. So when things started to heat up, there were several of us that went to the “Lower [...]
11/7/10 8:54 AM
