Last week I shared my journey throughout these two years of traveling. Today, I will share what my real roots are… and they happen to be yours too. Our roots are all the same. Not the ones where our ancestors or cultures come from but from where we all originate. According to the Bhagavad Gita […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]