FleshContext
A blog by Anna Karkovska about yoga, asana, alignment, anatomy, yoga philosophy
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Shedding Yoga's Nationalistic Skin
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It is well accepted by now that the world of yoga is undergoing change—a "paradigm shift" as posited by many—in terms of narr...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Extreme Hardness and Extreme Flexibility: Survival Basics
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I saw this NYT article , "Why Are Americans So Fascinated with Extreme Fitness," making the rounds on FB yesterday and actually re...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Flexibility or Space?
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Using yoga (meaning asana here) to increase flexibility (the #1--and overwhelming--reason why people say they practice yoga, at least in t...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Rhomboids: Enter the Magician's Circle
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I was scrolling through my make-believe Facebook feed the other day and came across this Yoga Journal blog post , which was posted by Amy Ip...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Allow Your Core to Happen
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I recently led a workshop titled "Allow Your Core to Happen." So much of what we think about the core propels us to work harder, t...
Friday, October 4, 2013
Walking as a Practice of Letting Go
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When I was doing Jenny Otto 's yoga as therapy training in 2010, I remember her telling us about Mary Dunn, the late Iyengar yoga teache...
Friday, September 13, 2013
In Defense of External Rotation
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Yogis of all stripes view external rotation with ambivalence at best. I've heard many lamentations about coming to yoga and being very e...
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