Category Archives: Om

There are a bunch of us who are yoga class regulars in the studio I go to, although the others started doing yoga a whole year before I did. So I really shouldn’t be surprised that many of them are able to kick up into headstands, handstands, or tripods without breaking a sweat. Those are [...]

I like thinking up different types of yoga classes. There’s midnight yoga, which is, um, yoga done during midnight, for those who want to do yoga late at night or welcome the new day ahead of everyone else. There’s rage yoga, in which you can do yoga angrily and intensely. But there’s one type that [...]

I’ve been trying to master bakasana or crow pose lately, and a practice session a while ago ended with me bonking my head on my mat when I pitched forward. I’m fine and no, it didn’t hurt, but it was quite alarming. During yoga class tonight, we were given two minutes to come into any [...]

I’m pretty pleased with how my body has improved in the almost-three months I’ve been doing yoga. I’m pretty flexible to begin with, but yoga has been pushing me even further in that department. Also, I like how it has been instrumental in making me stronger. In my first month, my side planks had to [...]

That’s what I need to work on, both in yoga and in real life.

During yoga class tonight, the teacher had much more creative and inspiring ways to describe the warrior poses. For virabhadrasana, she said we should think that we’re warriors presenting ourselves and showing how strong and powerful we are. For virabhadrasana II, she said we should visualize ourselves slicing off the head of a dragon. For [...]

When I got to the yoga studio today, I was surprised that I was the only one who’s attending the morning class. I know that normally, they cancel classes if there are fewer than three people, so I was surprised that the teacher said we’ll go ahead and work on whatever I think I need [...]

Unrolling a yoga mat on the ground, carrying it around, lying down on it, and even sweating on it can really turn your mat grubby. Unfortunately, I don’t always have time to unroll the mat and soap and scrub it clean, since it takes a while for it to get dry, not to mention the [...]

The yoga studio I go to has five teachers, all of whose classes I’ve attended. I must admit that I have my favorite and I also have that one teacher I dread seeing, because her classes are usually pretty intense. Tonight’s teacher was someone whose class I hadn’t gone to since the third week of [...]

Presently, I’m using the mat I first got in 2009. It’s nothing special. I just got it for P400 ($9.30) at Toby’s, which was definitely quite a good deal, I thought. It survived the more than a month I spent doing Bikram yoga, after which I laid it aside and brought it out only for [...]