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Ask a Yoga Question

August 7, 2014

Keep sending in your yoga questions!

This week's questions:

1. What can I do to stop my knees from hurting in child's pose?

2. I just started doing yoga and I'm quite flexible in my hamstrings - what should I focus on?

3. How can I do forward fold without a curve in my back?

4. After a series of difficulties in my life, I'm feeling really unmotivated to step on the mat. Can you help?

5. I'm not nearly as flexible as I want to be despite a few years of practice, what do you suggest?

6. I want to start doing more advanced poses but don't know where to start, can you help?

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Ask a Yoga Question

July 30, 2014

Keep sending in your yoga questions!

This week's:

1. Can you explain the shoulder rotation in camel pose? Mine hurt when I do them!

2. My boyfriend and I go to yoga together twice a week and I'd like to get him a gift - any ideas?

3. Can you offer some yoga poses for bedtime?

4. I think I pulled my hamstring a few weeks ago. It's mostly healed but still tight. Will it ever go back to normal?

5. My low back hurts after doing yoga, what am I doing wrong?

6. Can you make a video showing how to get into supported headstand?

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Yoga Questions Answered

July 22, 2014

Keep sending in your yoga questions! This week's:

1. I haven't done head stand or hand stand but I want to try forearm stand, any suggestions?

2. Can you tell me more about your yoga training?

3. Even though I've worked with a therapist about past abusive relationships, I sometimes get flashbacks in savasana, what should I do?

4. I can't totally straighten my legs in down dog, am I still getting the benefits?

5. I can't straighten my leg in pigeon pose, what do you recommend?

6. Do you exclusively practice yoga or do you work out as well?

Frequently Asked Questions

July 16, 2014

One of my favorite series on this blog is Ask a Yoga Question because I love hearing from you, and I love it even more if I can help, because there's nothing more frustrating than having a yoga question and not being able to find an answer you can trust, amiright? Anyway.

I've started seeing the same questions come up, so I thought I'd make a FAQ for reference. Here we go.