Saturday, December 31, 2005

A Yogic Movie Review

In my last Daily Yoga Tip I promised you a "Yogic Movie Review."

Get ready. Here it comes.

Earlier this week I saw Kevin Costner and Jennifer Anniston in their new movie, Rumor Has It.

If you're looking for a straight movie review, I like Mark Ruffalo as an actor and Shirley MacLaine is very funny. That's all I have to say about that.

Yoga themes showed up several times in this movie.

First, when Jennifer Anniston's character, Sarah Huttinger, woke up from an alcohol-induced blackout at Beau Burrough's (played by Costner) oceanside estate, she found him out on the patio overlooking the surf in sirsasana, head stand. He said, "five minutes with your feet over your head, followed by a three mile run and a swim in the ocean, is the best remedy for a hangover. It beats coffee and aspirin." Jennifer went for the coffee and aspirin.

Are inverted poses a hangover cure? I don't know. I've never done any of the things Beau recommends, with a hangover. So you'll get no Daily Yoga Tip from me on that one...other than do what's necessary to avoid a hangover in the first place. Take it easy with the adult beverages.

Next, Sarah and Beau spotted a party-goer whose strapless dress was a bit tight around the top. The dress made two rolls of fat on the woman's back bunch up to form a vertical crease along her spine. Sarah pointed this out to Beau and called her "the woman with the back cleavage."

This got my attention right away, because I often refer in yoga class to a hollow trough between the shoulder blades as a "shoulder blade cleavage." It's a desireable thing. You can make one for yourself by simply drawing your upper arm bones toward your back body.

My "shoulder blade cleavage" is a bit different from her "back cleavage." I don't have any fashion recommendations for an evening gown that makes your back skin wrinkle up in funny rolls. But I do recommend proper arm action for good posture and optimal alignment of the shoulder girdle.

I wrote about this a while back in an Daily Yoga Tip called "Relief for the Rotator Cuff." You can read it here.

Lastly, Sarah's newlywed sister has an anxiety attack on the airplane while on her way to her honeymoon vacation. She told Sarah she was 35,000 feet in the air on her way to Belize when she stopped breathing. Hmmmmm. Not good.

They had to land the plane and give her sedatives.

So here's a good tip you can take from Rumor Has It: breathe.

The benefits of conscious breathing and a regular pranayama practice are many. You might even want to make the study of pranayama one of your New Year's Resolutions.

It doesn't have to be rocket science either. Five minutes each day of ujjayi breath will amaze you.

Don't just read about it. Get up. Experience it. Experience yoga!

Kevin Perry
www.ExperienceYoga.org

p.s., I've never been to Belize. But I have been to Yelapa. It blew me away. The beauty and simplicity of this place, and the hospitality of the people are amazing. I knew before I left that I would return. And there's really nothing like spending a week Mexico with 20 yogis who intend to have fun. Will you join us in February?

Sallie and I are taking a group back to Hotel LaGunita February 18-25. We still have space available. Find details at http://experienceyoga.org/vacations.asp.

p.p.s., While I was looking around for a picture of sirsasana, I found this fabulous photo of BKS Iyengar in niralamba sirsasana. Enjoy!

Niralamba means "without support." You can see in the piture that his arms aren't supporting him at all like they would in salambha sirsasana. Salambha means "with support."

These are the kind of connections we make at the Experience Sanskrit workshop.

Our next workshop is just 14 days away, January 14th in Kansas City. Register here.

Tuition is only $50 for this fun four-hour workshop that makes the Sanskrit names of yoga poses unforgettable. You get a 100-page course guide to use and take home with you when you participate in the Experience Sanskrit workshop.

We're flying out to Ft. Worth, TX to do the Experience Sanskrit workshop on January 28. Don't wait. Register now. Procrastinator rates will soon go into effect. That means the price goes up!

p.p.p.s., We still have the fun Experience Sanskrit yoga pose name refrigerator magnets. So if you've got some spending money left over from the Holidays, go to our store and pick one up for $5. You can use it in conjunction with our on-line virtual refrigerator magnet, that shows you how to arrange the word roots into yoga pose names. Shipping is $2 for any order of 10 or fewer magnets. It's free for orders of 11 or more. Order here.

p.p.p.p.s., Be sure to check my Daily Yoga Tip tomorrow. It's a New Year and we'll be offering our CHITTA HAPPENS shirt, starting tomorrow, for the first time to the general public. Up until now you've only been able to get one of these shirts at the Experience Sanskrit workshop.

The garment is made by American Apparel. It's imprinted with Patanjali's second sutra in both Devangari script and English: yogas chitta vrtti nirodhah.

I'll put it an order button up on our online store sometime tonight after midnight.

p.p.p.p.p.s., Happy New Year!

Copyright 2005. All rights reserved, Mo Yoga LLC.
Kevin Perry
Mo Yoga LLC
905 Eastland Plaza Suite B, #106
Jefferson City, MO 65101
(573) 680-6737

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Aparigraha, A True Story

I love Christmas. There's so much excitement, wonder and anticipation, mostly when you're around young children. It's infectious.

But then there's the ugly side. People driven by greed and status do some pretty horrible things this time of year when it comes to spending money, going into debt, and aquiring material goods at any cost.

That's why I so enjoyed a story I read today about a San Jose, CA woman, Thea Sawyer.

She bought candy at a See's store at the mall. Later, she opened her bag and discovered that the woman who helped her at the store counter accidentally dropped the ring off her finger into the shopping bag! The ring was valued at nearly $3,000.

Wanda Estrada was thrilled to get her ring back. It had been given to her by her late sister.

The people at Helzberg Diamonds were thrilled, too. They were so impressed by Ms. Sawyer's honesty and integrity, they presented her with a diamond ring worth $2,500!

What did Thea do? She said she enjoyed being rich for a day, but she intended to auction the ring off on eBay to raise money for charity!

Here's what Ms. Sawyer told reporters:
"I believe that you don't take more than your share and this is more than my share.''
Amazing. Did I mention Thea Sawyer is yoga teacher?

Not only does she walk the walk, but she talks the talk. When asked, she can say why she does what she does.

What she's talking about is a quality that Patanjali says we should cultivate. It's one of the five yamas. It's called aparigraha, and it means avoiding the accumlation of material objects out of covetousness and greed.

This story is so appropriate for this Experience Yoga Daily Yoga Tip because it shows so clearly, in a way you can experience, the happiness and joy produced when she practiced yoga. She practiced aparigraha. She refused to chase after and struggle to hold on to more than she needed. It's beautiful.

If you'd like to read her story it's here.
There's a fun video clip here.

I hope you've had an abundant 2005. May your 2006 be filled with joy and contentment.

Don't just read about it. Get up. Experience it. Experience yoga!

Kevin Perry
www.ExperienceYoga.org

p.s., Check back here tomorrow. I'm writing a "yogic movie review" of a show I saw last night. I think you'll like it.

p.p.s., I got an iPod Nano for Christmas from my mother- and father-in-law. Woo hoo! I love it. Thanks!

p.p.p.s., We still have space available in our Experience Paradise yoga vacation to Yelapa. It's incredibly beautiful and affordable. You'll never be the same. Find out more at
http://experienceyoga.org/vacations.asp.

p.p.p.p.s., We still have the fun Experience Sanskrit yoga pose name refrigerator magnets. So if you've got some spending money left over from the Holidays, go to our store and pick one up for $5. You can use it in conjunction with our on-line virtual refrigerator magnet, that shows you how to arrange the word roots into yoga pose names. Shipping is $2 for any order of 10 or fewer magnets. It's free for orders of 11 or more. Order here.

Copyright 2005. All rights reserved, Mo Yoga LLC.

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Christmas Greeting

















Merry Chirstmas everyone!

I hope each of you has a wonderful Holiday!

Thank you for sticking with me this year. I have so enjoyed your comments, questions and concern during the past months.

Shanti. Shanti. Shanti.

Don't just read about it. Get up. Experience it. Experience yoga!

Kevin Perry
www.ExperienceYoga.org

p.s., Many of you have not met me. That's me up there in the Santa suit in a rather informal version of upavistha konasana, the seated angle pose. Upavistha is translated "seated" and kona is angle. My friend Lauren says she remembers that kona means "angle" by thinking of the word "corner," which sounds like kona.

That's called association...when you associate something you want to remember with something you alredy know. That's what we do at the Experience Sanskrit workshop. The really strong associations are based on vivid experiences you have. We'll create lots of unforgettable experiences when we get together next for the Experience Sanskrit workshop in Kansas City.

It's coming up SOON, January 14, 2006, at Sunshine Yoga at Chiro Center, in Kansas City, MO. Enroll today here.
Don't wait. Tuition goes up to $65 on January 7.

The Experience Sanskrit workshop comes to Fort Worth on January 28th, Downingtown, PA on February 4th, Annapolis, MD on March 4th, and St. Charles, MO on March 18th. Find out more about these workshops at www.ExperienceYoga.org.

p.p.s., Click here if you want to see a bigger version of the my greeting card above.

p.p.p.s., Shanti is peace. May you sleep in heavenly peace.

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Sunday, December 18, 2005

Light Arms, Like a Snow Man

Once again there was snow on the ground when I got up today. It was just dust. Not enough to make a difference. And certainly not enough to make a snowman.

But I did see a snowman on the TV today. He was constructed in the classic form, small snowball stacked on medium ball on top of big snowball. He had coal for eyes and sticks, horizontal, sprouting out from each side.

It made me think of my yoga students in warrior 2 pose (virabhadrasana 2). Even though the snowman can stand steady out in the cold with his arms stretched out endlessly, most people can't keep their arms out very long.

Even while you sit at your computer, try this. Stretch your arms out to the sides so they're horizontal. Now wait. See how much time goes by before you want to take them down. Not long, eh?

I use a simple secret to make my arms feel light. I'll teach it to you.

With your arms outstretched, tuck your shoulder blade tips. That's it. You move your shoulder blades as if you were going to tuck them into your back pants pockets.

Your upper chest (on the front side of your body) naturally lifts a bit when you do this. The arms get lighter.

Using this action, you'll be able to hold your arms out steady and straight, just like a fine snowman.

By the way, this action of the shoulder blades tucking down while the upper chest lifts (and the skin on the tops of the shoulders flows backwards, too) is one of the "loops" that have been made popular by Anusara yoga. This action is the shoulder loop.

John Friend describes the shoulder loop like this in his YJ article called Go with the Flow: Alignment in Anusara:
SHOULDER LOOP One of the seven energy loops within the body. This loop originates in the upper palate and flows backward to the base of the skull and down the back of the body to the bottom of the shoulder blades. When you engage Shoulder Loop, the head moves back slightly and the shoulder blades move down the back. At the bottom of the shoulder blades, the loop begins arcing forward and upward as it draws the bottom tips of the shoulder blades in and upward, toward the heart. The loop continues forward and up to the palate again as it lifts the chest and opens the throat.
You can find this quote at
http://yogajournal.com/practice/1330_2.cfm.

Did you catch that? The precise action of the shoulder blades not only supports the arms, but it supports and lifts the heart, too. Here's wishing you a healthy, supported and open heart during the Christmas holiday and throughout the year to come.

Don't just read about it. Get up. Experience it. Experience yoga!

Kevin Perry
www.ExperienceYoga.org

p.s., I spent last evening in our town's brand new performing arts center. I watched a fantastic performance of the ballet The Nutcracker. My daughter was an angel and a baker. I really enjoyed it. I wrote a Daily Yoga Tip back on the Fourth of July about shoulders and ballet. You can read it here.

p.p.s., Virabhadrasana is one of three poses dedicated to Virabhadra. The mighty warrior Virabhadra sprung up from the ground when Siva, in his anger, through a clump of his matted hair on the ground. Why was he angry? You'll have to find out at the Experience Sanskrit workshop coming up SOON January 14, 2006 at Sunshine Yoga at Chiro Center, in Kansas City, MO. Enroll today here.
Don't wait. Tuition goes up to $65 on January 7.

The Experience Sanskrit workshop comes to Fort Worth on January 28th, Downingtown, PA on February 4th, Annapolis, MD on March 4th, and St. Charles, MO on March 18th. Find out more about these workshops at www.ExperienceYoga.org.

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Monday, December 12, 2005

Adjust Your Mirrors, and Your Spine

I came out of yoga class tonight, sat in my pickup truck and looked at my rear-view mirror.

Guess what I saw? I sure didn't see the road or any cars behind me. I saw only the inside of the bed of my truck!

I got up a 5 o'clock this morning and drove to St. Louis. I worked from my company's St. Louis office for most of the day and then drove back in time to teach two classes tonight. That's more than 5 hours on the road.

You probably know that driving is stressful. I've been told that driving while talking on the cell phone is even more stressful. Well, I'd been doing both.

My response to the stressors of the day was a slow and powerful, insidious grip. Grip compresses. Literally. My spine literally compressed. I got shorter.

How do I know? After I got stretched out from yoga, I had to adjust my rear view mirror so I could see over the tailgate of my truck. I was taller!

So practice yoga regularly to reverse or minimize the effects of stress on your body, even the ones of which you're not aware.

What a surprise! I didn't even know I had shortened my spine...and probably my lifespan.

If you're planning a long car trip over the Holidays, be sure to also plan regular breaks to get out and stretch. Once you arrive at your destination, do yoga. I recommend some inversions so you'll feel refreshed, too (assuming you already practice inversions).

Oh, and watch for signs of stress. The Holidays can really get to you.

Don't just read about it. Get up. Experience it. Experience yoga!

Kevin Perry
www.ExperienceYoga.org

p.s., I know people who get busy during the Holidays and quit coming to yoga classes. They quit practicing, too. I also know people who believe they wouldn't survive the Holidays without extra yoga classes and extra home practice. Don't give up on yoga, just when you need it most.

p.p.s., Lying down for 20 minutes in the afternoon also makes you taller! The intervetebral discs get a chance to rest and restore when you recline.

If you're afraid that a 20 minute nap will leave you groggy and sluggish for the rest of the day, don't nap. How about 20 minutes of savasana, the corpse pose! You'll be calm, alert, and as productive as you want to be for the remains of the day.

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Sunday, December 11, 2005

Imagine

This past Wednesday, I went to bed in a hotel room in Springfield, Missouri.

When I got up the next day, snow had fallen!

It's funny how in an instant you can be carried back in time to your childhood. When I was a kid the first snow of the year was exciting. It meant we might get to stay home from school. And playing in the snow was a blast.

Looking out from my hotel room at the white blanket covering the city got me excited once again...even though I knew I wouldn't be playing that day.

Later I went to church. It was a Holy Day. At the end of the mass, the priest acknowled two members of the parish, both of them adult men. He called them by name and announced that today was the first time they had ever seen snow!

Imagine that!

The whole crowd burst into applause. We were all, young and old, excited for them.

No one asked if they'd shoveled, or got stuck, or if they were too cold. Nobody asked about the pains of dealing with snow. But they both smiled wide and admitted, when asked, that they had played in the snow.

I stood there for awhile and tried to imagine the extraordinary series of events that must have taken place for these two men to start their lives in some place far away with different names, a different language, different climate, and a completely different lifestyle, yet end up here in the middle of the United States as adults, only to lie down on their backs on a cold December morning to make snow angels!

It boggled my mind. But it also gave me hope. The odds that they could have made such a transition must surely have been slim. But they did it.

Before you get down on your mat today to practice, I'd like you to imagine. Open your heart and your thoughts to the possibility of an extraordinary series of events. Add a little excitement, too. The kind of excitement you feel on the first snow day of the year--looking forward to fun.

I'm not sure why you do yoga. But sometimes I can go a long time without getting from yoga what I want. So it's easy to get callous and disinterested.

I can get down on my mat and have a very "adult" view of it. Like looking out the window at snow and thinking my car might not start, or traffic will be a hassle, or I might be late for work, or I just won't warm up today, or yuk, I've got to shovel.

It works better when I get down on my mat and think that today I might have a blast. I might have a great breakthrough. I might end up so far away from where I started that I can't begin to imagine it. But I'm open to it. I'm open to the flow of Grace in my life and on my mat.

Enjoy.

Don't just read about it. Get up. Experience it. Experience yoga!

Kevin Perry
http://www.experienceyoga.org/

p.s., Many of you know that Thursday was the 25th anniversary of the death of John Lennon. In his memory, I leave you with a lyric I really like:
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world.
You may say Im a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
p.s.s., Imagine it's President's Day 2006. You've just finished a two-hour morning yoga class. You feel great. You step out of the thatch-roof yoga room, slip on your sandals and walk across the beach to the palapa for a breakfast of freshly squeezed orange juice, home-made yogurt and granola, fresh pineapple and mangos that have never been on a shelf in a grocery store or shipping container. You're beginning another fabulous day in Yelapa, Mexico, enjoying new friends, and drinking in the surf with your eyes.

I'll be there on President's Day. And the whole week, too. You can come with us. I guarantee there will be no snow in Yelapa that week.

Don't miss our unbelievably beautiful Experience Paradise yoga vacation in Yelapa, Mexico, Feb 18-25, 2006. You'll never forget this fabulous vacation and yoga experience. Find out more at http://experienceyoga.org/vacations.asp.

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Friday, December 09, 2005

More On Jala Neti

The comments keep coming in about the yogic practice of using the neti pot to rinse your sinuses.

Thank you to all of you who have emailed me with your comments, experiences, and testimonials.

My friend Diana reminded me of two important benefits of jala neti. She said she and her husband never get sinus headaches anymore, now that they neti regularly. And if you (or the person you sleep near) uses a neti pot before bed, snoring is reduced or eliminated.

How about that for a great tip?

I told you all recently that I never use tap water in my neti pot because the chlorine is a major irritant. A reader named Don wrote that he zaps his tap water in the microwave oven. That drives off the chlorine. When it cools down to body temperature, he's ready to go.

When I travel and don't have filtered water, I use the in-room coffee maker in the hotel the same way. I heat up tap water (no filter, no coffee grounds) in the coffee maker. Then there's no chorine irritation at all.

Beth, an Integrative Nurse Practitioner, wrote me to say that she recommends jala neti to her patients. She said it really helps. She asked me to pass on to you a recommendation to thoroughly rinse out your neti pot when you're done. You don't want to recontaminate your sinuses with the stuff you washed out the previous go-around. Great advice.

If you're new to my Daily Yoga Tip and you don't have any idea what I'm talking about, go back and read my last two Daily Yoga Tips at
http://experienceyoga.blogspot.com/2005/12/no-tap-water-no-iodized-salt.html and
http://experienceyoga.blogspot.com/2005/12/jala-neti-keeps-you-clean-and-ready-to.html

Don't just read about it. Get up. Experience it. Experience yoga!

Kevin Perry
www.ExperienceYoga.org

p.s., I promised you a while back that I'd write about the phrase "neti, neti." These words are an attempt to show that any expression or conception of the Divine is inadequate. They can't capture the essence of God. So, no matter what you think of or see or imagine or compare to, God is "not that." "Not that" is the literal English translation of neti. Here's what one author says about neti, neti:
The most outrageous fantasies pale beside Him. In truth I don't know what He is. No one can fathom Him. No words successfully describe Him. Words by their nature limit. He in every aspect is limitless. Yet I feel an urgency to share Him with those open to God, to tell those who have been seeking God, searching for reality, peace, liberation, Truth in its highest form, of his presence in mortal form and of His message of Truth, Simplicity and Love and the constant remembrance of God's name.

p.p.s., I still have refrigerator magnets in stock. I mentioned them in my last DailyYoga Tip. Email me at info@experienceyoga.org with your mailing address and your phone number. I'll call you. We'll get these out to you in time for Christmas gift giving. Also, I've been on the road the last three days, first Springfield, MO then Kansas City. So those of you whom I haven't called yet, don't worry. I'll call you Saturday!

p.p.p.s. Our orange I DO YOGA silicone wristbands make great stocking stuffers for your yoga friends, too. Order them at http://store.yahoo.com/yhst-13837176072520/idoyogaband.html

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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

No Tap Water, No Iodized Salt

Hi everyone.

I got a great response from yesterday's Daily Yoga Tip. It was so fantastic to hear from so many of you.

If you haven't read about jala neti, please go back and read yesterday's tip at
http://experienceyoga.blogspot.com/2005/12/jala-neti-keeps-you-clean-and-ready-to.html.

I thought of two more things after I read all of your emails yesterday:

1) I never use tap water. The chlorine kills me. Either filter your water or let it sit out for several days so the chlorine levels drop.

2) I don't use table salt, either. I use kosher salt from the grocery store. It's not iodized.

Keep rinising out those sinus passages; you'll be glad you did.

Don't just read about it. Get up. Experience it. Experience yoga!

Kevin Perry
www.ExperienceYoga.org

p.s., Many of you have asked me about the Experience Sanskrit refrigerator magnets you see at www.ExperienceYoga.org. We usually make these magnets available only at the Experience Sanskrit workshop.

I have a couple dozen left. If you'd like to order one to give as a stocking stuffer for the Holidays, email me today. They're selling for just $5.00. And if you buy 11, shipping is free. We'll get them to you in time for Christmas.

When you email me, send your mailing address, name and phone number. I'll call you and get your credit card number, since I haven't even had time to set this item up for sale on our online store.

And remember, you can always go the virtual refrigerator magnet at www.ExperienceYoga.org to see all of the possible combinations you can make for the Sanskrit names of yoga poses.

p.p.s., Don't miss the Experience Sanskrit workshops we have scheduled now for Kansas City, MO; Fort Worth, TX; Downingtown, PA; Annapolis, MD; and St. Charles, MO. We'll be releasing information this week about a new April date for the Experience Sanskrit workshop in Kingston, NJ.

Watch the FREE Daily Yoga Tip for more news about these events. Until then, you can find out more about the Experience Sanskrit workshop, the workshop that makes the Sanskrit names of yoga poses fun and unforgettable, at: http://experienceyoga.org/.

Copyright 2005. All rights reserved, Mo Yoga LLC.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Jala Neti Keeps You Clean and Ready to Go

I've been using a neti pot for many months now. Every day, or almost every day, I put a pinch of salt in my neti pot, add warm filtered water and then rinse my sinuses out by pouring the warm water into one nostril. With my head tipped to the side, the water washes out my upper respiratory system, drains out through the other nostril, and runs down into the sink. Then I'm ready for the day.

This practice is called jala neti. The results are fantastic.

Now that it's cold here, the heat is on and the air in my house is dry. It irritates my nasal passages. Thankfully, when I use my neti pot, irritants get washed out regularly and my sinuses are properly humidified. It feels great.

A big thing I'm noticing is that daily use of the neti pot keeps my upper respiratory system tuned up and ready to go so it can do its job efficiently and quickly.

Last week I was in Springfield, MO on business. Before I left for home on Friday, I stopped in at an office in which contractors were finishing off some drywall work. After I'd been in the office for about two hours, I started sneezing. I literally could not stop. So I left.

As soon as I got in the car the sneezing stopped and I started to feel better. But the two-and-a-half hour car ride home made it easy for me to see what was happening next. My sinuses started to develop mucus. By the time I got home, well, lets just say I was uncomfortable. I was clogged and gooey and needed relief.

I got out my neti pot and ran some warm water through a couple of times. Out with the bad.

I immediately felt better.

Jala neti is an old yoga practice. If you do it regularly, it keeps the upper respiratory system clean and ready to respond so that you stay healthy.

Think about what happened to me. My nose and sinuses did what they could do to keep the drywall dust out of my lungs. But when they were overwhelmed, the productive sneezes began to kick the dust out. Then throughout the duration of my car ride home, my lungs and sinuses produced mucus that trapped the dust so that the cilia lining my respiratory system could carry it out to my nose. I helped it along with a flush of warm saline water from my neti pot and the whole thing was over.

I recommend it. Daily use of your neti pot will help you avoid trouble during the cold and flu season. And if you have allergies, the nasal wash helps rinse away the allergens and irritants that cause those unbearable allergic reactions.

One really great benefit is you don't have to use drugs. I know a woman who goes into depression when she takes her sinus and allergy drugs. But she does it because, for her, suffering with the other symptoms is worse!

Try it this season, and then continue. It takes some persistence to get accustomed to it. But you'll notice the difference if you do it daily as a part of your routine. Some of you will notice a real sting, especially if your sinuses are dirty. But flushing them out and keeping them flushed out will keep the sting away.

Don't hesistate to contact me with questions you have about this great practice.

Don't just read about it. Get up. Experience it. Experience yoga!

Kevin Perry
www.ExperienceYoga.org

p.s., Neti is Sanskrit for "not that." I'm not sure how a pot got the name of "not that." But I'll write a little bit tomorrow about why the phrase "neti, neti" is so well known among yogis.

p.p.s., If you're curious, you can read a write-up I did describing our Experience Neti Flow workshop. It's here.

p.p.p.s., We have Experience Sanskrit workshop dates set now for Kansas City, MO; Fort Worth, TX; Downingtown, PA; Annapolis, MD; and St. Charles, MO. We'll be releasing information this week about a new April date for the Experience Sanskrit workshop in Kingston, New Jersey, near Princeton.

Watch the FREE Daily Yoga Tip for more news about these events. Until then, you can find out more about the Experience Sanskrit workshop, the workshop that makes the Sanskrit names of yoga poses fun and unforgettable, at: http://experienceyoga.org/.

Copyright 2005. All rights reserved, Mo Yoga LLC.
Kevin Perry
Mo Yoga LLC
1305 Elmerine Ave
Jefferson City, MO 65101

(573) 680-6737