Author Archives: Rina Jakubowicz

BY RINA JAKUBOWICZ ON YOGA JOURNAL This intricate arm balance relies on arm, core, and leg strength, balance, and spinal and hip flexibility. Miami Vinyasa and Vedanta teacher Rina Jakubowicz shows you how to warm up and take flight. Reclined Figure Four Start with gentle hip stretches. Come onto your back and cross your right […]

BY RINA JAKUBOWICZ  ON YOGA JOURNAL Compass Pose can demand a lot of your shoulders, hips, and hamstrings. Learn how to warm up safely for this complicated seated pose with Miami Vinyasa and Vedanta teacher Rina Jakubowicz. Bound Standing Forward Fold Baddha Uttanasana Start to open your shoulders and hamstrings in this variation of Uttanasana (Standing […]

BY RINA JAKUBOWICZ ON YOGA JOURNAL In this series of posts, YJ contributors share their experiences of yoga in its birthplace. If you’ve considered traveling to India to practice, to find your teacher, or to find yourself, learn more here weekly about what you can—and can’t—expect. Finding someone to practice “yoga” with in India is easy. […]

BY RINA JAKUBOWICZ ON YOGA JOURNAL Prepare yourself for a very different experience when you unroll your mat in yoga’s motherland, Rina Jakubowicz says. Here’s what to expect. In the West, yoga and meditation often translate to physical postures and sitting mindfully yet thoughtlessly. Conversely, in the East, the practice of yoga is much less […]

BY RINA JAKUBOWICZ on YOGA JOURNAL Not all meditation practice has to happen 
sitting perfectly still in Lotus Pose. By focusing your awareness inward, on the breath and 
the way your body moves through transitions and feels in poses, you’ll reap many of the 
same rewards that seated meditation provides—
heightened focus, balanced energy, a sense […]