Pose-itively Yoga

03/14/2025

YOGA! Today was pretty much BIG TWIST FRIDAY. In fact, I think I will change the name of the Friday Slow Flow Vinyasa Class to BIG TWIST FRIDAY.
Our 'peak pose' today was 'Parivrtta Utthita Padangustasana' otherwise known as 'Revolved or Twisted Hand to Big Toe Pose'. We do this pose without the twist all the time (Utthita Padangustasana), but today I took the yogi's through multiple shoulder, trunk, and hip twists to ready themselves for the Parivritta (twisted version) of big toe hold.
This included teaching them a bit about the lungs, how big they are, and those tiny little intercostal muscles between each rib. Multiple twists are important to open up the trunk for this crazy cool twist. One or two twists before this pose is simply not enough, it's a lot of prep, but the yogi's can and will do it, cause their AWESOME!!
Think about how much you twist every single day, including a simple head check when you drive. Twisting poses are super important and are a huge part of our daily practice.

03/07/2025

I talk a lot of anatomy during the yoga classes I teach. I think it's important.
I always mention the bacon strip muscles in our forearms that morph into the tendons that make our fingers move, and those tendons look like fettuccini noodles.
Tendons are fibrous connective tissue and feel like tough asparagus near the bottom of its stem. That's what it felt like to me during gross anatomy class.
In the yoga classes I teach, we do a lot of hand and wrist, toe and ankle poses several times a week. We have to keep that grip strength in-check ya' know. We aren't getting any younger.
I also mention the 'Flexor Retinaculum' a lot, which is the band around the wrist.
This morning I also mentioned the 'itty bitty teensy weensy' ligaments that wrap around the finger bones (phalanges) and hold them together.
Ligaments hold the skeleton together, then the muscles can attach from joint to joint by way of tendons and then we can move our bodies. Cool beans!
We sprain ligaments and strain muscles. A strain/sprain is both.
One more thing, doctor comes from the Latin word - docere and docere means teach.
Doctor means teacher. TEACH!
I told the yogi's I would post some pics today so they could see those bacon strips and all of those tiny ligaments that keep all of the bones in the hands and fingers together. Enjoy!~

02/28/2025

While teaching yoga, I like to throw out a lot of anatomy, over and over and over again. It's important to know why we do the things we do, then we can become more 'intentional'. This morning during 'Slow Flow Vinyasa' while we were in 'paschimottanasana pose' (seated forward fold), which is the same as 'uttansana pose' (standing forward fold), I was explaining about the 'anastomosis of the elbow and knee' as well as the 'circle of willis'. I like to describe anatomy to them like road maps. This morning I explained to them (while in the pose) the anastomosis is like roundabouts that we come to at 4-ways. It's important to know 'your body' better than you know anything else. FUN!!! That fat pad behind your knee, its important to protect the anastomosis around the knee. Same with the elbow. And the brain. There are some words I just like to say - anastomosis, elbow, and paschimottanasana are three (3) of them. Epiphany is another. 🙂 Love is another. 🙂

11/26/2024

08/30/2024

This is a follow-up to the hamstrings info I was talking about this morning during yoga (Slow Flow Vinyasa). There are many reasons why we do what we do, hamstringin’ is one of them. 🎸🎶💪🦵

02/09/2024

Attention Yogi's - I wanted an 828 area code and had to get a whole new phone number. The new number is 828-620-6003

05/04/2023

Thurs. May 4, 2023 - Daily Horoscope for each Sun Sign posted ... today the Moon is in 'hot damn' Scorpio!
https://www.pose-itivelyyoga.com/astrology-and-yoga

04/28/2023

Yoga Teachers . . . Studio Owners . . . on the home page of Pose-itively Yoga you will see the Full Moon and New Moon Astro Memes for 2023. A great resource to schedule your Moon Salutation Classes . . . including the sign that Moon is in, meaning its theme.

04/28/2023

Fri. April 28, 2023 - Daily Horoscopes for 'each sun sign' are here. Save the website to your phone for easy access. I will be updating for the weekend on Friday's. Watch for it.

The way I see it, if so many things that are 'not' yoga, are accepted and coupled with yoga, then why not Astrology? It's older than yoga itself. Our yoga practice is personal and so is our Astrology. On this website, under the AstrologYoga header, you will find asanas for your Sun Sign, as well as....

04/24/2023

Mon. April 24, 2023 - The Pose-itively Yoga is ramping-up during Mercury Retrograde (April 21 - May 14, 2023). The site is already a couple of hundred pages (no kidding), which has set itself to be a wonderful resource for yogi's, trainees, teachers and teachers teachers all over the world.
All levels of yogic study are presented in an easy to access format. The detail and the presentation interweave between the pages so you can see the relationship between each as the oldest studies of health and discipline weave together - Astrology, Ayurveda and Yoga.
The roots of yoga are important, which you will also see presented and woven throughout.
While this website sits at a couple of hundred pages, it's a small example of what it will.
Please use the website and share with others. You can also check your Daily Horoscope.
https://www.pose-itivelyyoga.com/

04/21/2023

Fri. April 21, 2023 - POSE-ITIVELY YOGA DAILY HOROSCOPES for each Sun Sign are back. We have not gone anywhere, we are still after it and practicing every single day (online). Hey, when something works for ya', you stick with it, but improve upon it.
At the start of Mercury Retrograde (Rx) today Daily Horoscopes for each Sun Sign are back! I will post several days in advance to give myself plenty of lead time. If you are on the mobile phone, note that the 'Menu' is at the tippy-top and has drop down menus within it. So easy!
I'll keep posting a few more days in advance ... in the meantime, have fun, seek enLightenment, use your discernment and kick some ass. They don't call it warrior pose for nothin'!
Two of the oldest studied and practiced disciplines out there (yoga and astrology) and they do both require discipline, whether you use it or not is up to you.
https://www.pose-itivelyyoga.com/astrology-and-yoga