Beginning Your Journey

As the old adage by Lao-tzu goes, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.  Your yoga journey will ultimately be rewarding and give you a sense of satisfaction, but starting the journey can be overwhelming.  Contemplating a few steps is certainly much easier than thousands of miles.  Our goal is to inspire you to begin a personal practice, and to help guide you through the first few steps of the journey. A personal yoga practice is indeed personal…. it is tailored to YOU!  When creating your practice you should take into consideration your physical limitations so that you can practice safely and without injury.  Eventually you will grow and expand around many if not all of those limitations.  In fact, yoga was historically used to help people overcome injuries and disease.

Where Are We Headed?

Through both this blog and our accompanying videos and audio, we will teach you how to structure a practice - like a story, your practice has a beginning, a middle, and a resolution.   We start with a warm-up, followed by dynamic whole body movements and poses.  Most practices will then close with stretching and relaxation.  Over time new elements will be added and others taken away. While we focus on yoga, there are a wide range of techniques that have been used by yogis over the centuries, including light and heavy Indian clubs as well as training with stones and weights.   We also incorporate other techniques from the world of strength and conditioning, and concepts from Qi Gong and Tai Qi.   Our goal is to give you the best teachings and show you how to incorporate them into your personal practice.   Optimal results are obtained from individualized instruction.    Your individualized instruction will be created as you select from the diverse techniques we share in the coming weeks and months. It is up to you to selectively incorporate them into your practice.

The First Steps of Your Journey

How can you get started?  The first step is to sign up for a monthly premium subscription on the Medicine Yoga site. We offer a large selection of video, audio, and articles to help create your Personal Yoga Practice.  Start your journey with us.