by Gregor Maehle | Nov 12, 2014 | Asana
I received requests from a few students to write about how body and practice changes as one gets older as people seem to struggle to keep up practice. Important here is to realize that asana practice was designed to support practice of meditation and pranayama. As you...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 12, 2014 | Pranayama
I received some inquiries how to deal with anxiety during pranayama, a subject that is also covered in detail in the pranayama book. In a nutshell, reduce your breath count and let go of any ambition to lengthen it. The attitude of achievement that many modern yogis...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 12, 2014 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation
I’m getting a lot of inquiries about knee problems and here are some basic guidelines on knee health. 15 years ago I seriously blew out both of my knees (shifting furniture and landscaping) and have subsequently healed them with yoga. I took 1.5 years of work to get...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 12, 2014 | Pranayama
As is the case with many other terms, prana can have several meanings depending on context. For example some yogic scriptures instruct you to draw the prana in through the left nostril and expel it through the right and vice versa. Here, prana simply means breath....
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 12, 2014 | Ashtanga Yoga
The Hatha Ratnavali states that the lower yogic techniques like asana, pranayama and mudra are useless without having the goal of Raja Yoga in mind.[1] Raja Yoga means royal yoga. It is a term that denotes the ‘high road’ of yoga, generally used to indicate the...
