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 […]
As part of the application for signing up for our Resolve to Evolve Retreat or Training, I ask every participant to write an essay about why they want to do the training. It’s not formal but I just want to have a window into the minds of those whom are intrigued by this kind of […]
Sitting here at the Vedanta Academy in India, I reflect on this phenomenon of being on the cover of Yoga Journal’s March issue. I am both excited and inspired to be able to represent what yoga has taught me in my short 15 years of studies. Throughout this process of 1. being asked to shoot […]
In November I had the honor and the privilege to teach two yoga classes in Santiago, Chile as part of Feria Mujer’s beauty and wellness conference. The venue was amazing and although the students were being introduced to this style of yoga for the first time, they were very receptive to it. I could tell […]
It’s the day after Thanksgiving and this year was the first time I spent it away from Miami and my family. I kept telling this to myself and others – the part of being away from my family – which I came to realize only made me feel more distant from those in front of […]
En Agosto de este año fuí a enseñar un taller en Nueva York y por primera vez en mi vida sentí el orgullo de estar representando a los latinos en el mundo del yoga en los Estados Unidos. Nunca me sentí que era latina pura porque me crié en Miami y aunque tenía tantas influencias […]
Recently Rina Yoga announced that we are merging our Coral Way classes to the Roads studio for November and December. It’s exciting news because we will all be able to practice together in one room and build up the yoga community in this one space instead of splitting us apart. I have heard some people […]