Category Archives: Yoga

Short answer: to tone your abdominal muscles with yoga, practise poses that make your abdomen work to hold you steady: mountain pose, downward facing dog, chair pose, triangle, plank, leg raises and, later, shoulderstand. Hold each pose with steady breathing, and practise at least twice a week. Yoga makes the abdominal muscles stronger and improves […]

Short answer: Lolasana (pendant pose) is an arm balance where you kneel with crossed ankles, place your hands beside your knees, and lift your whole body off the floor between your arms. To lift up, you need strong wrists, arms and abdominal muscles, a broad upper back and flexible hips, plus a lift from the […]

Gentle yoga for seniors, and for many others, helps you start yoga. How & why our VERY easy yoga allows everyone to get started. Try Gentle Yoga, Backcare Yoga, Easy Restorative Yoga, or Women Only Yoga. Gentle yoga for beginners, or gentle yoga for seniors, as well as for many others, evokes a chuckle from […]

Every Tuesday morning, as Mum taught us school, we waited for the weekly mail truck. We were all of course dependent on snail mail. Anything like online yoga was science fiction. With any luck, on the mail truck, our Grandpa in Brisbane might send us a parcel of popcorn, and some new toys. Mum had […]

Online beginner yoga, or any other yoga, could probably benefit from doing some OMs. It’s only in a few classes that we do an Om. It’s worth thinking about why that is, and if we should do more of it. Essentially, in the in-studio and online beginner yoga, if we did Om more, newcomers may […]