This entry was published on July 8, 2025 by Charlotte Bell. A few years ago, there was a controversy of the culture of yoga on a teacher who was dismissed from a business yoga course to discourage mobile phones during yoga. Hired by the company to provide a yoga break to the employees, the teacher … Read more
This entry was published on June 30, 2025 by Charlotte Bell. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article on how to prepare your body for the installation of camel (Utrasana). Camel Pose is a difficult chackbend. It stretches the whole body before, especially quadriceps, abdomen, chest and shoulders. In the post, I described a … Read more
This entry was published on May 27, 2025 by Charlotte Bell. The film decades ago, Annie HallEmbellis a famous quote on the art of teaching. In the film, the quote took place like this: “Those who cannot do, teach. Those who cannot teach, teach the gymnasium.” (The embellishment of the film is the second sentence.) … Read more
This entry was published on May 6, 2025 by Charlotte Bell. Prasarita Padottanasana (Installation of elbow forward standing with wide legs) is one of the most relaxing standing poses in yoga. Its symmetrical shape maintains your pelvis, the sacroiliac joint and the neutral spine, while the active rooting of your feet and legs allows your … Read more
This entry was published on April 25, 2025 by Charlotte Bell. Gomukhasana (pose of cow’s face) is a must for my morning yoga lessons. Years ago, several of my students invented unflattering names for that – pie pie, crazy cow, etc. – Because it was so difficult for them. Now, these same opponents of the … Read more
This entry was published on March 26, 2025 by Charlotte Bell. Vinyasa (alias Flow Yoga) has been the most popular form of ASANA practice for some time now. Based on concepts introduced via Ashtanga Yoga, Vinyasa has a yoga “routine”, a sequence of fluid movement. In most popular classes, students cross the sequence to a … Read more
I will admit – almost walked right. It was a long day, and I look forward to a good stretch when I found a close yoga. I ran out, rolled my mat and realized that was the smallest person in the room for at least a few decades. I accidentally stepped in the senior … Read more
This entry was published on March 14, 2025 by Charlotte Bell. I regularly offer hip workshops in various teacher training courses in the region where I live. As a recipient of bilateral hip replacements, I learned a lot about poses and ways of approaching asanas promoting a healthy yoga practice, and what does not. Being … Read more
This entry was published on March 5, 2025 by Charlotte Bell. What is yoga? Good question. And you will probably not get a concrete response. When a philosophy has existed for as long as yoga, perhaps 5,000 to 6,000 years (even this is questionable), the definition of yoga is likely to be delicate. The most … Read more
Avez-vous déjà rêvé de pratiquer le yoga dans un endroit où la nature, la spiritualité et la communauté se mélangent de manière transparente? Permettez-moi de vous dire pourquoi Bali, «l’île des dieux», est devenu un sanctuaire pour les amateurs de yoga et les chercheurs spirituels dans le monde. Imaginez vous réveiller sur le chant des … Read more