“…There are so many benefits from yoga that I will just list them: better focus, feeling more at ease with myself and others, my music-making is always better for at least 24 hours since trumpet playing requires extremely strong core muscles, lower blood pressure, better cholesterol (the numbers don’t lie — from 180 to just above 150 without meds), and enjoying life more.”
People Who Practice
People Who Practice is a series of interviews that features a variety of yoga practitioners and teachers, emphasizing there's no one way or "right" way to practice yoga.
While yoga stories and experiences are certainly linked, grounded in the tradition & history of the practice, individual relationships to the practice are as diverse as its millions of practitioners from around the world.
Learning about these varying paths into yoga and about how yoga affects and can even shape life on and off the mat, it's this that helps us understand why yoga really can be for everybody and every body.
Tiffany Coombs: People Who Practice, Edition 3
“The majority of my practicing career has been at home. If you want to start a home practice, my advice is to start with a DVD, a book, or a sequence written by a trusted teacher. If you are a teacher, I think a consistent home practice is an absolute MUST.”
Michelle Vigen Ralston: People Who Practice, Edition 2
“Yoga has taught me something new: that my yoga practice accepts me, wherever I’m at, with whatever time I can offer. My advice: do yoga because it feels good. And let go of trying to be ‘good’ at it.”