Upper Valley Yoga Blog
Change is in the AirAren’t these photos—taken by Clara Gimenez—just gorgeous? To me, they demonstrate both the sweet stillness of a yoga practice, as well as its soaring flight and freedom. How beautiful you all are, and what a privilege to teach this thing called Yoga. There are more coming, too. Clara’s lovely photos will soon be featured on the website. What I love in particular in both these pictures is that they capture that sense I often have in both daily life and while practicing yoga, that time has stopped . . . Read more |
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Patient Today?The Sanskrit word “Mudra” is usually translated as a seal or gesture. Mudras are typically used during meditation or pranayama as a way to direct energy flow throughout the body. Yogically speaking, different areas of the hand stimulate specific areas of the brain. By applying light pressure to these areas of the hand, you “activate” the corresponding region of the brain, not unlike reflexology. Mudras also symbolize various feelings and states of being. This hand Mudra—Shu. . . Read more |
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Meet Amanda!Meet Amanda Anderson!Upper Valley Yoga is pleased to welcome Amanda to our roster of teaching staff. Amanda will be teaching the Tuesday evening class going forward, 6–7:15 pm, and she is also teaching a special Yoga for Hikers class this Friday evening. (More info to the right.) |
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The Fairy of Good FortuneThe Fairy of Good Fortune Full credit to my friend Maureen for the title. This past Saturday, my husband Greg and I helped host the hundred and something-th Thetford Hill Fair. Every year the fair committee tosses around new ideas to try and draw more people to this very sweet and very quaint event. This is not quite a country fair—you know, oxen pull and 4-H. Neither is it an outsourced line-up of mini rollercoasters and tilt-a-whirls. The only Merry-Go-Round boasts painted (stationary. . . Read more |
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Down the RoadSee you down the road. |