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, relaxed. T

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

Courtney’s Fall Schedule    Above Chelsea's Restaurant,  1734 Main Street, Columbia, SC $10 Yoga Classes; 1 1/2-2 hour Thai Massages;  Individual and Group Privates; Donations only Meditation practice- every Sunday!! Class Descriptions Fundamentals  For this class, the fundamentals of building a well-rounded yoga practice will be addressed through a deeper look at the Eight Limbs of Yoga as taught in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Classes will consist of discussion on yamas (abstinence), niyamas (observance) and samadhi (absorption), and movement through asana (posture), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (sense withdrawal), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and ultimately, samadhi (bliss) . Beginner's Flow   For this class,  alignment of key poses will be addressed in detail while  building to an accessible, peak pose. Beginners will find ease in the simple and effective flow of isotonic  and isometric movement.  Vinyasa Flow For

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For years, I have been working through a pain in my upper back: the connective tissues of the rhomboids that insert into the scapula. In my inversions, I have noticed my attempt to stay there, to bring my attention to this space and the pain-body that exists there. In downdog, I press into my shoulders more to draw the muscles of the upper back apart, and here, I am able to dig into my hurt. Or, in twists, whenever the shoulder is on the earth, I draw the shoulder joint fanatically into the earth and use gravity to pull the rhomboids apart. Hunching my shoulders up to my ears and rounding the back or a hardy backbend with the scaps depressed into the back and into the belly of the muscle, the heart and throat open, to create the same.  This pain comes from a variety of sources that I have been able to pinpoint. In pictures of me at a young age, I have held my shoulders cocked or tightly. I took pictures with my head to one side, shortening the length of the antagonistic muscles

2012 Energies   I’ve felt it: The swirl of 2012 and since I’ve felt it, I have been speaking with everyone I know about it. That is, I’ve been speaking about “2012 Energies”—that is what I am coining it. It is time of newness; it is a time of old things passing away; it is a time of confusion and clarity. And the polarity of contradiction is huge.  It’s at this mid point that we should stop and take stock of what has passed and what is to come with regard to the energy that can take us for a ride if we are not careful. Energetically, it is not unlike a tornado catching those that are not grounded and those things that are not founded. Ideas run amuck, good and bad. It is now that good friend: family or otherwise, are important. Find the friends-family you trust and listen to what is really be said, inside of you as well as from them. Sit with it all….By that I mean, think about the thought, decision… with as much objectivity as you can find. Pray about it. Meditate on it. Th