Jennifer Ellinghaus
what does kapālabhāti mean
Kapālabhāti breath is said to be a heating and detoxifying breath, so much so that...
parivrtta – viparita: revolved asana or reverse triangle pose?
Parivṛtta and viparīta – it took me long enough to remember how to spell them...
astanga siva cakras and caturaṅga – what about the h
If you are a practitioner of the style of yoga populariZed by Pattabhi Jois, do...
do you know how to pronounce haṭha
In my experience in the yoga world, the word ‘haṭha’ is routinely mispronounced as if the first...
vīrabhadra doesn’t mean ‘warrior’!
Once upon a time… when I introduced warrior 3 in one of my classes, at...
bakasana is not the crow!
A little while ago I found out that I was regularly mistranslating a yoga pose...
the yamas and niyamas of travel
There is so much talk about taking yoga off our mats, but it’s easy to...
