Hi friends! Please reply to this message if you’re coming to class in the morning. Feel free to let me know whatever I might need to know in the note. You’re also welcome to chat and share here! ok — onward! Why Just Showing Up Isn’t Enough (But Still Counts for Something) Anyone who’s spent…
Donella Meadows would call deliberate practice a feedback-rich learning system. Naïve practice has weak feedback loops—you act but rarely reflect. Deliberate practice tightens those loops: every action informs the next, every mistake becomes data. Over time, this system evolves toward greater stability, efficiency, and insight. It’s yoga as adaptive intelligence. What It Looks Like Try This: For…
Stronger hips. FASTER race times.
DEEPER leg behind the head. Well, it all starts at the feet.
Below is an easy-to-follow Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) sequence focused on ankle stability that pulls heavily from Ashtanga Tech’s Range‑Conditioning material and standard FRC practice (PAILs / RAILS, CARs, end‑range conditioning). I’ve given step‑by‑step cues, timings, equipment options, regressions/progressions, and a ready-to-run 15‑minute version. Where possible I point to the Ashtanga Tech pages (note: many study‑guide pages require membership) and to open FRC references for the protocols.
Teachers live in language. The words we choose to cue a pose or movement change where a student puts their attention, and that shift changes how the body organizes itself. In motor‑learning research the distinction between “external” and “internal” cueing is now a fundamental principle—and it was a woman, researcher Gabriele Wulf, whose work beginning…
Karma Yoga is the Yoga of Action How often have you heard me say that? It’s an aphorism I like to trot out whenever I notice a certain amount of abherance in stated desired outcomes of change and the measure of perceived effort on my end as a teacher. All talkie-talkie, no walkie-walkie. Big talk when it’s…