Welcome, omagain.com was established:           • to serve as a resource on yoga       • to keep in touch— with you exclusive feature NYC Yoga Studio Finder omagain is working to maintain an up-to-date listing, perhaps the most comprehensive one available, of yoga studios throughout Manhattan.       video   "Vinyasa Yoga with Daniel Dale"  On the health & wellness website iHolistic.tv, a short presenting the fundamentals of vinyasa yoga.         strongly recommended   Yoga Workshop Blog Boulder, Colorado-based master teacher Richard Freeman now has a blog where one can listen to his Studio Talks for free. Click & play, download them, or subscribe to podcasts. What a gift! Many thanks to Richard, Mary & Co. Practice tips Some days you may be up for a very vigorous asana practice, but at other times that might be counter- productive. Here are some ways one can "soften" a yoga practice: • Breathe more deeply and evenly. Complete each exalation and inhalation. Do not push further into the asana (pose) if the movement begins to constrain or stifle the breath.   • When doing a forward bend, you can step the feet a bit apart and bend the knees. If the classical form of any asana would be uncomfortable, just take your time— perhaps years— to ease your way patiently towards it, if at all.   • If lowering into chaturanga dandasana is too intense, try a "knees-chest-chin" approach. That is, you can always touch the knees to the ground first, when lowering from a plank position.   • Then, you can always substitute a cobra pose for an upward-facing dog, keeping the pelvis on, and pressing into, the ground.   • As a substitution for downward-facing dog, try balasana ("child’s pose") or try what I like to call “downward puppy,” simply by bringing the knees gently to the floor from downward-facing dog, while still reaching up and back through the sitting bones.                                                                            > full article For explanations or pictures of  the aforementioned yoga asanas, you might try searching in the Yoga Journal Pose Finder   In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny. — Henry David Thoreau

Practice with Daniel Instruction personally tailored to your goals, experience & availability. Private, group or corporate     Treat somebody to private yoga instruction with an omagain gift certificate.           In yoga, we are going for perception,         not perfection.           — Michael Gilbert             Whatever you do, have a good breathe.           — Mark Whitwell     When our mind is not turbulent for a little while, we tend to think we’re in a slump and start groping about for something that can stir it up again: a thrilling movie, a stiff drink, a spirited quarrel, anything to “get the juices flowing.”... When we fix our eyes on a higher goal, we begin to see beyond the immediate appeal of short-term satisfactions. Confident that a far greater joy is ours, we can hold out against the voices from all sides that cajole, “Eat this; drink that; watch this; buy that.” True joy is found when the mind is still, not when it is excited.   — Eknath Easwaran       Favorite yoga mat: Central Park's Great Lawn