Formosa Neijia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYRz_lHGN1Y
It brings me great pleasure to finally be able to show some taiji daoyin on youtube. This is the style of Xiong Wei 熊衛 as performed by one of his top disciples, Alan Chen 陳慶華, and a student of Alan’s. As you can see, the moves are blended together and show the range […]

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So I was in the market for a yoga mat recently. I’ve been slipping a bit when I practice at home. I did lots of research to find the best mats on the market. I tried to order some mats from the States, but almost no companies were willing to ship to Taiwan. In frustration, […]

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So the other day I thought I’d try out my own little version of hot yoga. This type of yoga is performed in a room heated to about 105 degrees. Thing is, all I had to do to get my house about that hot was to turn off the air conditioner and the fan. It heated […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZLHIY06mqo
These 6 exercises are great intro to yoga and can be practiced as a warmup for other exercises of as a mini routine all on their own. They are great for waking up the whole body. I have no idea who put them together, but they work really well. They are so simple, and […]

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This is the second article (see part 1 here) that articulates some problems with yoga. I found this one to be a bit more penetrating in its criticisms. I’ve cut some of it out but you can read the original here. Looking forward to hearing what readers think of this.
Yoga this and Pilates that
By: […]

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I’m looking at getting back into yoga again after a really long break. I haven’t done it seriously since university. In the process, I’ve come across some very interesting articles about the weaknesses of yoga. Here’s the first article (original here). I’d love to hear that readers think of this stuff.
 
THE TRUTH ABOUT YOGA AND […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH31NDIlFIM
So while I’m writing up a review of Intu-flow by Scott Sonnon, I thought I’d share this clip from Choke with you. This is Rickson Gracie doing some of his training for an upcoming full-contact tournament in Japan. As you can see, he has incorporated a lot of yoga into his training, and he […]

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Continuing with this post (see part one here), here’s part two:
The man in the suitcase is an example of the difference between classic Hatha yoga and chi gung. Many of the chi gung people don’t have anywhere near the flexibility that Hatha yogis have. Most can’t put both legs behind their heads, can’t lie on […]

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This is a story told by Bruce Kumar Frantzis in his newsletter, which I subscribe to. If stuff like this interests you, then I suggest that you pop over to energyarts.com and sign up. This is the first half of the story. Tomorrow, I’ll put up the second half with some comments and an interesting […]

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This installment is going to be more a photo essay than anything. I’ve thought a lot about how to introduce this stuff and words just don’t really do it. Pictures don’t really do it either. Video is better and actually taking a class in it is best. But we have to settle for now.
The pics […]

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