Best Yoga Blogs.

Yoga For Beginners In Darwin: How To Choose A Studio

Yoga for beginners in Darwin: seven questions to ask any studio before you start, and how Flametree measures up on classes, levels, online and price.

How Often Should You Do Yoga? How Many Times A Week Makes It Stick

How often should you do yoga? For most beginners, two or three classes a week. Here is why, what habit research says, and how to make yoga stick.

Rope Yoga In Darwin: What The Iyengar Wall Ropes Do, And Three Weekly Classes

Rope yoga Downward Dog at the Flametree rope wall in Woolner, Darwin

Rope yoga is Iyengar yoga done with ropes fixed to a wall. What the ropes do, why B.K.S. Iyengar used them, how to stay safe upside down, and the three weekly rope yoga classes at Flametree in Woolner, Darwin.

Yoga Practice At Home: How Gertie Fits Yoga Into A Restaurant Owner’s Day

How does a busy Darwin restaurant owner keep a daily yoga practice at home? Flametree teacher Gertie shares her routine in her own words, and what anyone can borrow from it.

Stillness In Yoga: Why A Still Pose Is Never Just Holding On

What stillness in yoga really means: doing and undoing in a pose, single-pointed attention, the breath, and kumbhaka, the pause in pranayama that teaches the mind to be still.

Eagle Pose: How To Do It, And The Benefits For Balance, Shoulders And Focus

Eagle pose (Garudasana) by Chris Lalor on the rocks at East Point, Darwin

Eagle Pose (Garudasana) step by step, from Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher Chris Lalor: how to wrap the arms and legs, the benefits for balance, legs, shoulders and focus, and the support options for beginners.

Cow Face Pose: Are Your Arms Too Short For Yoga, Or Is Your Chest Closed?

Chris Lalor in Cow Face Pose arms with a belt, seen from behind

Think your arms are too short for Cow Face Pose? Chris Lalor explains why a closed chest, not short arms, is usually the problem, how a belt helps, and which chest opening poses bring your reach back.

Backbend Yoga: The Energy, Uplift And Calm Of Opening The Chest

Chris Lalor in a chair backbend, Two-Legged Inverted Staff Pose, against a sandstone cliff

Backbend yoga, from Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher Chris Lalor: the benefits of backbends for posture, breathing, energy and mood, what research has found, and how a chair makes them doable for beginners.

What Is A Sattvic Mind? The Yoga Idea Behind Feeling Clear, Calm And Steady

What is a sattvic mind? A plain explanation of sattva, rajas and tamas, the three gunas, how yoga and pranayama cultivate a clear, steady mind, and what research has found so far.

Daily Yoga Habit: Why I Started, And How My Body Changed My Mind

Stuart McGill in Tree Pose with arms raised at Edith Falls

Stuart McGill, Flametree teacher, on the photo that got him started, the surprises of a daily yoga habit, and why physical practice changed his mind and behaviour more reliably than willpower ever did.

Yoga Sandbag: Why Iyengar Yoga Uses Weights To Help You Let Go

Sandbags in yoga: Chris Lalor in reclining bound angle pose with a sandbag resting on the legs

What a yoga sandbag does, where it goes, who started using weights in yoga, and what staying under one can teach you.

Yoga For Hip Pain: How Iyengar Poses Look After Your Hip Joints

Chris Lalor in Reclining Big Toe Pose II with a belt on a Darwin beach

Yoga for hip pain, from Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher Chris Lalor: why so many people get hip pain, the six movements that keep a hip healthy, which poses are taught, and B.K.S. Iyengar’s approach to living with pain.