I love shoulder stand. I really do, I swear. But if I'm going to do shoulder stand in class, I better be feeling really confident, because I know I'm going to queef all over the freaking place as soon as I try to come out of it. Yup, I admitted it. I'm a yoga queefer. In fact, I'm an RYQ—a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Queefer. Okay, all joking aside, this has to be one of the most mortifying ... View Post
How Do I Start Doing Advanced Yoga?
I teach a lot of beginners. Like many yoga instructors, I found that studio jobs were really competitive and hard to get as a freshly minted RYT, so I found myself in gyms a lot. Many of my students had never set foot on a mat before, and were unimpressed by my Sanskrit or my sutras. I had been embarrassed that as a teacher I couldn't do what I thought was "advanced yoga," like handstands and ... View Post
What I Learned When I Started Practicing Yoga
I was one of those lucky girls that could eat whatever they wanted to eat and never gain an ounce. I wasn’t particularly thrilled about that, but other people seemed to think it was an enviable trait. I’ve always been fairly active, so I wasn’t really looking to become more fit or healthy either. I began practicing yoga in 2009 mostly because someone told me that I should and that I would probably ... View Post
