The difference between teaching Yoga to students in a class and writing about it through a blog generates questions.  What words can I use to reach students and let them discover what power those words have?  Each student will hear and perceive the words differently and each will have different responses. After attending Yoga classes in many [...]

My family and I have spend 3 days into Sequoia National Park. Along the trail, we saw majestic trees, water falls, huge rocks. They inspired me some Yoga poses to celebrate Nature. Enjoy the pictures and remember that Yoga comes from the observation of animals and natural environment. Practice with heart and feel what arises from [...]

The Sun salutation is a sequence of movements connected with the breath. It is considered as a warm up for the body at the beginning of a Yoga class or a personal practice.  Muscles are evenly tone and developed, every organ is stimulated in a healthy way. The mind is rejuvenated and refreshed. The Sun [...]

Recently I read an article “ When Less is More: The case for teaching Less Math in Schools” written by Peter Gray.  The article explains that arithmetic is introduced at en early age in school because children struggle with it. But, – and this is the point of the article, it would be more valuable for [...]

Shashi Pottathil, my Yoga teacher, is originally from a Yoga family in Kerala, India. In 1993 he decided to leave his country and come to the United States to teach Yoga. He founded his school in San Diego: The Yoga and Meditation Center. There he teaches students, trains teachers and continues to learn and updates [...]

Yoga as Involution Below is a passage extracted from B.K.S. Iyengard’s book “Light on Life”. This book is detailing the journey toward enlightenment. B.K.S. Iyengard describes the different sheaths of our body and how the practice of Yoga can transform ourselves and therefore our lives.  The following example illustrates an explanation about the actions we can [...]

Often, new students come to me with the question of what type of Yoga I teach and what are the differences between the types of Yoga. First, Yoga has different paths. The one we know and practice the most in western countries is Hatha-Yoga. Hatha-Yoga is a path to find purification of the mind through purification of [...]

Recently I was questioning myself about Yoga and Tradition. Should we teach according to the ancestral tradition? Or should we update the teaching? I started by asking myself about the language of Sanskrit. Yoga is a 5000 years old Indian practice. This knowledge was first transmitted from teachers to students only verbally and through practice. [...]

Screaming is a tool we use in Yoga to push away tension, bad emotions and suppression that poison our body and mind.
This simple technique can be use daily and everywhere. Try it, do it and be happy …

Click on the link to see the video:

Yoga screaming

During the night I had a reminder, through a dream, that Yoga is a personal choice of life. I dreamed that I was going to teach a class to one of my teacher. I was concern of how my teacher will feel during the class. Was she still in need of learning something? and was I [...]

Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: Yoga a tool for fitness and happiness

This is the link of The Valley News, local newspaper that published the article.

http://www.myvalleynews.com/story/46024/

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: Yoga helps to turn inward and become aware of what is happening

I just found this note that I wrote last year. It reminds me that when we turn inward we reconnect with ourselves and discover that the body can reflect the state of mind.

Yesterday was cloudy and cold here, everything [...]

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: Home practice: Yoga helps to be happy

Yoga teaches us how to be present in our life, feel free and happy. Yoga is not only a physical exercise. this is a mental exercise too. let’s ask ourselves, right now, “Am I hungry, thirsty, sick,  have a roof on my head ?”

these are survival questions that help to replace us in the present [...]

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: The practice of Yoga develops awareness in our daily life

In the article “Yoga, awareness, listen to the body” I explained why the practice of Yoga poses connected with the breath calm the mind and allows us to feel what is happening inside the body.
In [...]

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: Back pain, good posture and Yoga

One thing I have learned through Yoga is to pay attention to my posture. With good posture we avoid back pain (back pain is from the neck to the lower back). We gain good digestion and good elimination. We are happier because somebody with good posture has less of an inclination for negative thoughts than [...]

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