COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

It is an amazing time to transition to the next view, the higher sense of the self, the spiritual self. It is inevitable. This weekend I was introduced to a new name, Sandra Walters. Check her out: http://www.sandrawalter.com/ . She held a webinar to discuss emotional clearing and the steps to accomplish this most vital process. This information reminded me of all of the processes that exist in life, all the steps to emotional clearing that guide our beings through transition.   My favorite yoga teachers have figured out seamless transitions. They have transfer creative steps, for themselves and their students, in which to travel from pose to pose, thought to thought and finally, to Savasana, where the death of the person that began the yoga class the hour before is actualized and the being becomes anew. Drenched and wrung a spiritual connection is renewed through the body, mind and spirit. The body is reset. The muscles hang off the bone, relaxe...

Throughout the span of my yoga practice, I have come across many overweight people who practice with a similar cadence as I would accredit to myself. I would say they were as agile and in some cases more flexible. Not that I am the measuring-cup standard, but I am a small woman. OK. You can say it, if you didn’t already; I am a judgmental, skinny B----. I beg to differ, for a minute, for the sake of discussion on an often restricted topic, for  most skinny people, being brought to some light. If by chance there is no light on the surface when I am done thinking this through, please commence; Call me whatever you would like. Big people can and should do yoga. Fat is a topic too dense for me to cover and out of my scope, but it is also something to consider. "Bad" fat is the agent that assists in the lack of absorption throughout the body, nutrients from food and to organs. It blocks arteries and deafens the internal feelings as it releases hormones and other substances i...