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anne nuotio’s awesomeness

On November 20, 2009 · 8 Comments · In reviews, yoga

I spent this week on-and-off watching Anne Nuotio’s ashtanga yoga dvd. What a revelation!

First off, it’s long. There is a beginners sequence (surys minus chatarunga, standing up to ardha baddha, shortened finishing, no lotus), Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced A, plus a 30 min interview, I dunno, I’m going to say maybe five [...]

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yoga: state of the practice: knees

On November 2, 2009 · 2 Comments · In yoga

It’s been three months that I’ve been doing the primary series five or six times a week and wow, I’m impressed with how much has changed in my body in such a short time. It occurred to me that it would be easy to forget where I started—and that it might be cool to document [...]

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dare I call myself an ashtangi?

On October 28, 2009 · 4 Comments · In mayalife, yoga

I’ve been really getting into my yoga. Specifically, the primary series of Ashtanga yoga as taught by the late Shri K. Pattabhi Jois. Five or six days a week I’ve been on my yoga mat, working my way through this demanding series of postures, sweating, breathing—

I know, right? I can hardly [...]

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slice of life

On October 7, 2009 · 1 Comment · In mayalife

I got up this morning around 4:30 (that’s AM, or I’m-An-Idiot in the morning) and wrote for two hours, realizing, in the process, that I’m going to have to do a metric fuck-load of research to get part of this story right. Fine. If that’s the work, that’s the work.

Back at the yurt I [...]

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women doing ashtanga on dvd

On September 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In reviews, yoga

I mentioned the other day that I’ve been doing a bunch of yoga lately. It started out with some restorative yoga poses because I was feeling exhausted. Then I stopped feeling exhausted and started doing some standing poses each day. I picked up some yoga dvds, looking for some fun routines, and somehow, [...]

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mothers and daughters doing yoga

On September 4, 2009 · 1 Comment · In kiddo life, mayalife, yoga

I’ve started doing yoga again. I was really into it in my late twenties and early thirties, but then I had babies and it fell away. Now it’s falling back.

However it became obvious right away that doing yoga with little kids does not look like a yoga practice is ‘supposed’ to. At all. Spongebob [...]

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