View Part 1 Learning Yoga in the Modern World View Part 3 What is important in a personal Yoga practice? Thanks to Chris Johns who has kindly filmed and edited these videos
Simon Borg Olivier Interview Part 1 – What is Yoga Synergy?
Here is one part of a series of a six part interview I gave to Morgan Carlota and Malwina at the Yoga Synergy Intensive course in Goa India last year. Here I am talking about the purpose of our practice on more than just a physical level. View Part 2 Learning Yoga in the Modern World View Part 3 What …
Spinal Movements Blog Series
Discover how to best move your spine to increase circulation, generate energy, relieve back pain, increase core strength and become more mobile. Simon explains in this 28 part blog series. View all here
Are you missing a step in the Up Dog Down Dog Vinyasa?
One of Simon’s popular active lectures on the essence of vinyasa yoga. Learn some of the missing steps you might be forgetting in the Up Dog Down Dog Vinyasa.
Don’t Lock Your Core … Move From Your Core
Be firm but calm. Move from your ‘core’. Breathe from your ‘core’. Open your ‘heart’ from your ‘core’. In this blog we discuss how to move towards advanced postures safely and effectively. More importantly, we discuss how, if you learn to move in the way described here, you don’t need to do advanced postures to get the main benefits of yoga on …
Yoga Therapy for Knee Problems
by Simon Borg-Olivier and Bianca Machliss One of the highlights of running our Live Yoga Therapy courses is meeting people like Matthias St. John, an amazingly talented young man who came to see us to get help with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). We have developed 17 co-activation exercises that are progressively more challenging for the knee and to …
Exercises for the Healthy Development of Babies and Children
by Simon Borg-Olivier In this 9 minute video I am using my understanding as a physiotherapist and yoga teacher to give exercises to my 9 month old son Eric. This training takes advantage of the natural spinal reflexes that are most prevalent in babies. These spinal reflexes help to facilitate the exercises that I am getting him to practice. I …
Exhale for Pleasure, Strength and Freedom
In this short video below I discuss the seven main ways you can exhale and how by understanding and mastering these ways of exhalation you can stimulate the pleasure centres of your brain, improve core strength, save energy, reduce stress, make your spine more mobile and flexible, and massage your internal organs to improve the function of your digestive …
Holding your breath for increased strength, flexibility, healthier digestion and to eat less food
Although there are many benefits to learning how to use all the muscles of breathing, and to learn to breathe in many ways, in the more advanced stages of yoga it is the art of breathing less than normal (hypoventilation) that gives the most physiological benefits. The less you breathe in and out the more you will build up carbon dioxide …
Ashtanga Yoga Drishti in Surya Namaskar
According to Sri K Pattabhi Jois, in his classic book ‘Yoga Mala’, during the ‘Salute to the Sun’ sequence (Surya Namaskar), your eyes should gaze upward toward the ‘Third eye centre’ (broomadhya drishti) on each inhalation (all the odd numbered vinyasa) and your eyes should gaze downward toward the tip of the nose (nasagra drishti) on each exhalation (all the …