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Your go-to resource for learning how to use home yoga + movement routines and rituals for building strength, relieving stress, and living mindfully.
Yoga Sequencing Tip: Home Base Pose
I learned about using a "home base pose" in sequencing from Schyuler Grant in her Art of Teaching Kula Style Yoga training, which I highly recommend. It's pretty simple, but can profoundly shift your teaching by lending a LOT of creativity and exploration to your...
Settling Meditation to Get Out of Your Head
We spend a LOT of time in our heads. A few weeks ago, I taught a lunchtime class to my private corporate group of yogis (who I LOVE...they have learned so much and are so inquisitive). I asked how everyone was feeling, and one of the students said, "I...
The Power of the 10-Minute Practice
Ever wonder how to fit your yoga + movement practice into your day? You know, the practice that helps create a mindset and a feeling in your body so that you can support the other efforts in your life? The kind of practice that strengthens your body in the places...
A Practice for the Transition from Summer to Fall
The seasons have a profound effect on us, and I find it so interesting how these effects show up. In our modern world, we often don't make the connection between how we feel and the natural world around us. I have a private student who came for her session recently,...
Breathing Room
My coach recently posed this fill-in-the-blank challenge to me: I want to BE THIS, so I will DO THAT, so I can HAVE THIS. Which made me question...what do I really want? The tendency is to start with what we want to HAVE. Right now, I think I want to HAVE a stable...
The Power of Dropping
Two months ago, I dropped out of corporate life. I quit my job. It is something I've been wanting to do for quite awhile, and it was finally time. I had sort of a Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde existence with my work. I spent 17 years working for a software company while...
8 Core Strengthening Moves with the Yoga Wheel
Got a yoga wheel? Looking for ways to use it, instead of letting it accumulate dust in your prop corner? I was guilty of this until I took my first yoga wheel workshop and got comfortable playing around with it, and now I use my wheel for a lot more than just draping...
12 Ways to Use Your Yoga Wheel
Intro to the yoga wheel:what is it?what do you do with it?do you need it?where do you get one?High Plank to Low PlankI have been very inspired to incorporate this awesome tool into my practice...so many ways to use it. Here's a #highplank to #lowplank move...talk...
Set Your Vision and Intention: A Yoga Practice
On the first day of 2017, my family and two other families went on our traditional New Year's Day hike. We headed to the redwoods of Northern California with 8 kids in tow, and took on a 7-mile out-and-back hike. It was peaceful and meandering and it also had its...
A Yoga Practice to Move Energy and Emotions
Ever have one of those really emotional times where you just need to get shit out? Last week, I was in San Marcos, TX being a student of yoga, doing another leg in my 500-hour advanced teacher training with my teachers, Christina Sell and Giocanda Parker. And...the...
Step-by-Step Guide to Flying Pigeon – Let’s Fly!
Looking for a step-by-step approach and some tips and tricks for practicing this arm balance, Flying Pigeon or Eka Pada Galavasana? Here you go! Hip flexibility, abdominal strength, a strongly flexed foot, and a brave lean forward are keys to this pose. We'll start at...
Keeping Your Front Knee Safe in Pigeon Pose
Got knee issues? I do...from running and sitting and living life. My right knee will always be "the sensitive one," and I've had to baby my knees in my yoga practice a little bit. One pose where this comes up often is in Pigeon Pose or Eka Pada Rajakapotasana. In my...
6 Reasons Not To Skimp on Savasana (+tips for teachers and at-home yogis)
Savasana. How sweet it is. No matter what we each experience during an asana practice, we all rest here, often with cozy blankets and supportive props. It's a super sweet way to end a class, especially if we've really challenged ourselves. But there is a pattern...
I am Robin Penney, ERYT-500 yoga teacher and movement geek, and I help women who are 40+ get stronger, calmer, and more connected through the practice of yoga + movement that is nourishing, playful, approachable, and challenging at just the right level.
There is no better time in history to get serious about self-care and purposeful living than now, and I hope these tools help you embrace all that you can give to the world.