tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post8343349420800413776..comments2024-03-19T00:02:51.116-07:00Comments on shivers up the spine: For Every Phase of the Moon: Toronto Yoga Educator Diane Bruni on Resilience and Reinventionpriya thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17104604630551238443noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-25346134920353028122015-11-16T22:45:16.711-08:002015-11-16T22:45:16.711-08:00Amazing blog posted. Thank you for sharing it.Amazing blog posted. Thank you for sharing it.Lulia Watsonhttps://youtu.be/ZpQlxEbx4TQnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-43693561244439000472015-02-11T02:27:58.006-08:002015-02-11T02:27:58.006-08:00Yeah I know that Diane Bruni is a great yoga educa...Yeah I know that Diane Bruni is a great yoga educator. I have attended Diane’s exploratory <a href="http://grokker.com/yoga/" rel="nofollow">online yoga classes</a>. Reading her life story on this blog was really amazing. Thanks for sharing this wonderful post dear!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15678311609103667993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-28477571431904571322014-07-09T13:25:06.685-07:002014-07-09T13:25:06.685-07:00Hi Taryn, Sati... thank you for the kind comments....Hi Taryn, Sati... thank you for the kind comments. Taryn, I'm actually quite interested in anatomical differences and how they relate to habit/practice etc. So thanks for forwarding that link. Looking forward to it, priyapriya thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17104604630551238443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-61544782243497381232014-07-09T09:01:28.484-07:002014-07-09T09:01:28.484-07:00Lovely, lovely. Beautiful spirit.
Spirals, circl...Lovely, lovely. Beautiful spirit. <br /><br />Spirals, circles and fluidity have saved my body and provided a healing experience to a whole community of women. In case you are interested in geeking out on the differences between male and female pelvis structure you can find detailed info here: http://tarynhughes.blogspot.de/2013/04/the-mysterious-female-pelvis-in-yoga.html<br /><br />"As the pelvis is the foundation of the body and the source from which all yoga poses rise, I've found it extremely important to honor anatomical differences in my teaching." Taryn Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703636400115307436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-31115769278509225612014-06-05T10:04:46.884-07:002014-06-05T10:04:46.884-07:00your closing thoughts were pure poetry priya. i lo...your closing thoughts were pure poetry priya. i love your interview style so much. thank you again.sati chmelarhttp://www.satiyogini.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-2063161910236388342014-05-15T10:26:04.911-07:002014-05-15T10:26:04.911-07:00Priya, I did send an email to Diane and am looking... Priya, I did send an email to Diane and am looking forward to hearing back from her. Check out my website at www.yogalign.com to view the before and after photos of people who do this practice. When the focus is on aligned posture, rather than alignment in 'poses', there is always a favorable outcome. Postural alignment is an important determinant of health and vitality so with my work, this is the focus. It is not about finding extreme ranges of motion but rather strengthening the forces that keep us upright in neutral . People age going forward so why are spending so much tim in yoga trying to flex our spine and go forward? Its a huge blind spot in yoga asana and fitness. No animal in nature has to stretch for an hour at a time. Yoga asana needs to make anatomical functional sense and my work with YogAlign helps people get strong core function and upright natural posture. It is not necessary to 'touch our toes' to do it. I have another website called www.yogainjuries.com if anyone reading this wants to take a survey on how and why yoga injuries are occurring. YogAlign Kauaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06910657762038037682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-48409609646523350632014-05-15T07:38:02.931-07:002014-05-15T07:38:02.931-07:00michaelle, i was able to peruse your article brief...michaelle, i was able to peruse your article briefly. i found much of it interesting. certainly, diane has been talking about spirals for some time as well. perhaps you should connect with her if you have a chance. be well, priyapriya thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17104604630551238443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-48349414791530487872014-05-15T07:36:32.199-07:002014-05-15T07:36:32.199-07:00thank you for reading, and i hear you and trust ev...thank you for reading, and i hear you and trust every single one of us is on a similar trip. be well, priya priya thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17104604630551238443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-75787616924513032632014-05-15T07:18:50.666-07:002014-05-15T07:18:50.666-07:00wow. beautifully written, but from such a bitter-s...wow. beautifully written, but from such a bitter-sweet perspective. I myself am on a constant journey, within myself, trying to understand my own complexities and simplicities; all this duality in life, and so much heavy emphasis on things that, when we are dying, have no meaning what-so-ever.<br /><br />carahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04678881846907377725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-18317391768557588992014-05-13T22:09:40.610-07:002014-05-13T22:09:40.610-07:00Because we are designed to move in spirals and rot...Because we are designed to move in spirals and rotations, we need to remove the straight lines and right angle body positions from yoga. We need to do asana that simulates natural function to increase the stability of our joints. Flexibility is glamorized in yoga asana and now people are suffering and I call it the liability of flexibility. I created a method of yoga called YogAlign after being injured doing ashtanga over 25 years ago. As a bodyworker, I added self massage and many techniques that rewire our postural software. People feel out of touch with source and with their body because of the time spent in chairs. Muscles that feel tight are actually tense because they are performing tasks they are not designed to do. But stretching does not make that tenseness go away. We do not need to get rid of tension, we need to balance tensional forces in the body and that does not happen by trying to pull on our parts. One of the big reasons people have weak gluteals is from all the forward bends with straight legs. The glutes have to turn off to allow those radical forward bends that compress the lumbar and loosen the necessary tension in the back body that keeps us upright. What I am most excited about is how YogAlign changes peoples posture so quickly and yogis with flat butts get them back quickly. Asana can work much faster to shift the physical body than people realize. We are just trying to put our round curving structure into linear positions. It permeates most yoga practices. We are designed to move so we need to stop trying to stretch with the brakes on. Bend the knees deeply and use the gluteal muscles in all forward bends while keeping the spine in neutral. See my article in EJ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/07/when-flexibility-becomes-a-liability-michaelle-edwards/YogAlign Kauaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06910657762038037682noreply@blogger.com