The Canebrake

Beginner’s Guide: Part 2

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:05:32 +0000

When I began teaching yoga, we held our classes in a horse barn. It was a lovely horse barn, but a horse barn nonetheless. The horses were gone, the stalls were empty, but an earthy, equine energy lingered on. We practiced on a concrete floor and the space soon became know as the ‘yoga barn’. Beginner’s Guide: Part 2

Pouring the Foundation

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:04:41 +0000

When’s the last time you took a good, long, honest look at your feet?!

If indeed the eyes are the window to the soul, then the feet are the foundation of the temple that houses the soul. Just as we build our yoga practice from the ground up by familiarizing ourselves with the yamas Pouring the Foundation

Have You Had Your Neti Today?

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:04:14 +0000

I’m allergic to hay.

I’ve known of this allergy since I was a child growing up along the Gulf Coast of south Florida. This information didn’t pose too big a concern to my family or me when the only thing we’re growing down there is old.

Today I find myself living in the agricultural Have You Had Your Neti Today?

Yoga Ethics (continued)

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:03:38 +0000

If you’ve been staying current with The Current, you’ll recall that we have work to do as we prepare ourselves mentally and physically for our yoga practice. This month as we continue to explore the ethical building blocks of yoga, the yamas, we find ourselves at Brahmacharya (bra-ma-char-ya).

So. Let’s talk about sex, shall Yoga Ethics (continued)

Plant Those Tubers

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:02:46 +0000

We are one of the most sittin’est societies, aren’t we? We sit hunkered down in our low-rider cars (or high-rise SUV’s), not even getting up or out to eat a meal; we sit on hard, unfriendly chairs with our heads straining forward at glaring computer screens; and we sit slouched into our lazy-boys while watching Plant Those Tubers

Get Your A** to Class

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:01:12 +0000

Why haven’t you been to a yoga class yet? It’s August; everyone else is going back to school, why not you?!?

Let me dispel some fears. Here are a few suggestions to consider as you head to your first class:

Finding the right instructor This is easy. There are plenty of fabulous and well-educated Get Your A** to Class

Ethics #5

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:00:25 +0000

A wealthy, religious man was traveling through the United States from Europe where he planned to pay a visit to a wise and world-renowned Rabbi who happened to be residing in New York. The European located the Rabbi’s apartment in an old, somewhat tired brownstone on the Upper West Side. Upon entering, he found the Ethics #5

Eat Through Your Mouth, Breathe Through Your Nose

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:59:56 +0000

I often have students ask me, “What’s up with all the breathing in yoga? Why do we have to breathe through the nose all the time? How come I go to some classes and everyone’s breathing like Darth Vadar??”

Welcome to the world of pranayama; the science of breath. Pranayama is not to be Eat Through Your Mouth, Breathe Through Your Nose

Gratitude

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:59:08 +0000

I am grateful. One cold, snowy night in March of ’99 in a tiny Colorado mountain town called Lake City (elevation 8,700); I went flying out the back door of our kitchen. Literally. Two steps out the back door with my lame-ass, slip-on shoes (sans tread) and I was airborne. I landed on the edge Gratitude

The Great Rejuvenator

adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:58:35 +0000

Holidays got you stressed out and completely exhausted??

What if I told you that I had something that would soothe your tired legs, decrease your anxiety, lower your blood pressure, and relieve that mild backache? Wait, there’s more; this could also lift your mild depression, reduce those varicose veins, curb your insomnia and reduce The Great Rejuvenator