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Part 2: Trust Your Body’s Intelligence
How to evolve the yoga practice into more functional strength, and to lean into the intelligence of your body to support you in all kinds of varied movement!
Part 1: Pick Longevity Over Sensation
Are you over-stretching in your yoga practice? Choose longevity over sensation and prioritize strength over passive stretching so your body can support you well!
Honesty in Yoga: New Movement to Challenge an Established Asana Practice
When my hip starting clicking in yoga, I knew I needed to shift something in my practice. Here’s an introduction in a 4-part series on expanding the movements of traditional yoga to trust the strength and resiliency of the body.
20 Minutes a Day Keeps the Chaos Away
A quick journaling and meditation practice to check in with the four parts of your Self, get the junk out through free writing, and Pranayama using the Pranic Breath technique.
Home is Where the Mat Is
Home in Newfoundland and on the mat! Plus a sequence for the all-levels class I taught at Nova Yoga in December 2017, which has several new ways of approaching traditional yoga postures that will challenge your body and mind in a whole new way within YOUR ranges of motion and sense of strength!
Revive the Art of Conversation
Cultivate the art of deep listening within your yoga practice, and then take that off the mat with tools for better conversations.
Why Private Yoga is Even More Amazing Than Your Favorite Yoga Class
How private yoga sessions are different from group classes, and the amazing impact they can have on your practice and on your life.
99 Coping Skills for Depression
99 skills for coping when things aren’t going quite right, resources for teenage anxiety and depression, plus yoga practices for settling and/or energy.
Self Compassion Practices for Imperfect Beings
Stop beating yourself up and start offering yourself self compassion. My story of imperfection and how pausing to be kind to myself turned it around.
10 Tips for Arm Balances and What They Have to Teach Us
Have you ever avoided the arm balance section of a yoga class? You know, slipped away to the bathroom just when the teacher announces that it’s time to breakdown Bakasana (Crow Pose) or (even worse) Handstand? Why practice (or teach) arm balances? Because it’s so exciting to watch students do things that they didn’t think they could. Tips for finding flight!
About Robin Penney
Empowering women who are 40+ to install movement habits that are nourishing, strengthening, and approachable for a truly calm and connected life.