by Anna Bukchin | Nov 30, 2019 | Health, Last Blog, Lifestyle, News, Philosophy, Teaching, Wellbeing
This weekend at Active Sanctuary we have been experimenting with the practice of Mauna Brata – noble silence. Partly because I tragically lost my voice to a bad cold and I wasn’t much of use for detailed guidance anyway. But also because losing my voice for a week...
by Anna Bukchin | Oct 16, 2019 | Health, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Teaching
What’s good about practicing poses the right way In 2019 alignment is not the most popular word about yoga. Strict teaching sounds like something a little bit cultish and it reminds us of all of the unfortunate yogi stories about abusive gurus and the wrong use of...
by Anna Bukchin | Sep 4, 2019 | Philosophy, Yoga teaching
Book review for ‘Bad Yogi’ by Alice Williams It has been a while since I posted a blog for my students inspiration. Like all writers I tend to find thousands of excuses to procrastinate writing but somehow find enough time to read… So this time I...
by Anna Bukchin | Jul 2, 2019 | Personal life, Philosophy, True story, Wellbeing, Yoga teaching
Meet the Yogi behind our Instagram posts and phone calls. At ASY, we love supporting our community and talk to our members about their experience with us. It has been few months now since we have Catalina on our team, helping around the studio with phone calls and...
by Anna Bukchin | Apr 1, 2019 | Teaching, Uncategorized, Wellbeing
In this article, I unpack all the ‘Hows’ and ‘Whys’ of practicing Yoga while using the wall as your prop. The wall was always one of my favourite props! In my practice and teaching I use the wall to: improve my alignment by gaining perspective using a solid...
