As part of our Countdown to One Year, we will be posting short video clips from recent interviews of a few members of the Gentle Yogis community. Emily Eisen has been practicing with us online since we began on March 19, 2020. She has been a student of Rudy’s for
The Best Reason To Try Yoga Yoga practice will expand your awareness. It begins with body awareness. Then, in the same moment, it includes breath awareness. It is said that practice will make you sensitive. With regular practice, you will become conscious of more that is in your experience. In other
To get the most out of your yoga practice, I recommend that you enter into stretches slowly, pausing and deepening your breath as soon as you feel a stretch. Even though it seems counterintuitive, you can trust that a gentle stretch will provide the benefits you expect from yoga. Yoga
You will likely feel better at the end of any well-guided gentle yoga class that takes individual differences and needs into account. However, you will get the most out of yoga if you practice regularly. You might wonder, “How can I find enough time?” The best type of yoga
What is Resilience? Resilience is the ability to return to your center, to neutral, no matter what is happening around you, no matter what has been triggered by life happening. Do you ever feel like that dried up old rubber band that can’t return to its resting position, but when
How long does it take you to get to sleep or return to sleep? If you are fortunate enough to sleep through the night or drop off easily after waking up during the night, then you may not be interested in this article. But, sadly, difficulty with sleep is very
Or is Gentle Yoga “too easy” to achieve that result? And what does it even mean, that a style or experience of yoga can be transformational? What transforms? What changes? How Change Happens Transformation can happen on a number of levels because we are multidimensional beings. Change can occur on
True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is one of my favorite Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes. The yoga perspective on social justice is essentially that we are not actually separate from each other. We
Dynamic Gentle Yoga™ (DGY) is a method of guiding and instructing yoga that evolved over the 35+ years I taught yoga and trained new yoga teachers at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health*. DGY is built on a strong foundation of Kripalu Yoga and has three main characteristics: slow,
In yoga, an approach of experimentation is highly valued. To experiment, one must bring a sense of curiosity and leave expectations at the door. This is helpful because the body changes all the time; it is in a constant process of degeneration and regeneration, a constant process of digestion, including