I'll be out of town for the next couple of weeks, so I'll be posting weeks 17 and 18, the two-week recovery phase, later today. Also, the store will be closed until my return at the beginning of May.

Witold

I've added a new feature to the site: a bookstore. Right now all I have up are my two books and two fun practice charts, but I hope to be adding a collection of items of interest to the serious yoga practitioner to the inventory over the coming months.

I have an ambitious plan that I hope you’ll join in with me. I’m going to organize the bulk of the practice posts for 2008 into a year-long practice cycle, building on some of the long-term sequencing ideas I outlined in “Sequencing Over a Period of Time.”

This cycle will consist of 3 trimesters: two of approximately four months, one of two months. Each of these trimesters will include an “easing-in” preparatory phase, a consolidation phase where we will cycle through all the various poses that are standard for the intermediate practitioner and a progression phase where we will get to play with some of the more complicated poses. This will then be followed by a recovery phase where the practices will shift into a quieter mode to give you a chance to rest and integrate for a couple of weeks. July and August will be a super-long recovery phase, encouraging you to get out and enjoy the weather and to do other things with your body so that the practice does not become stale.
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I'm starting a Q&A feature on the blog for all things related to yoga, so send in your questions! Depending on the response, we'll see how often it will run, probably monthly or weekly to begin with.

Send your questions via the contact page.

Check out the Reclined Poses section for 4 new poses:

Supta Padangusthasana 1 (Reclined Big Toe Pose 1)
Supta Padangusthasana 2 (Reclined Big Toe Pose 2)
Supta Padangusthasana 3 (Reclined Big Toe Pose 3)
Anantasana (Vishnu's Couch Pose)

(And somewhere along the line I'm going to remember to get a picture of me lying back in Supta Tadasana. It's always the simple things that get neglected.)

So, as you may have noticed, August was something of a wash-out in terns of blog posts. Hopefully it will pick up as we head into September. Here's a tiny update of some new pictures in the Arm Variations category.

I am happy to announce that I am going to be Associate Director of a very exciting 2-year, 500+ hour Teacher Training/Advanced Studies Program at Yogasana Center in Brooklyn that will begin this Fall. Click here for more information.

Witold

Tags: Teacher Training, Advanced Studies

Apologies for the limited postings to everyone. I have another 28-day cycle -- advanced, this time -- to post, but I'm heading off to San Francisco for a few weeks to study out there with Donald Moyer at the Yoga Room in Berkeley and to hang out and practice with my friend Sandy Blaine at her excellent studio, the Alameda Yoga Station. So posting will be sporadic until the middle of March when activity should pick up substantially. Stay tuned for the following:

• 28 days of advanced yoga
• Practice tips from Donald Moyer
• Basics for all levels of practitioner
• Big Ideas and applying them to your practice
• Anatomy and techniques
• Detailed pose instruction
• Practices, practices, practices
• Book recommendations
• Web resource roundups
• And, of course, more, more, more...

Until then, enjoy a few bits and pieces I've come across on my travels.

Witold

I'm very excited to report a readership of 17,678 page hits total since starting the blog just over a year ago, with a monthly high of 2,878 hits in November! Readers come from as far afield as China and New Zealand.

Next time you swing by and you see something interesting, or find something helpful to you, post a comment, even just to introduce yourself. It would be great to get an idea of whose reading.

Thanks guys for your support.

Witold