Active Yoga

01/11/2026

https://activeyoga.com/curiosity-lights-your-fire-curiosity-imagination-action-actualization/

I was a difficult child.

08/03/2025

Nashville Predators Hopefuls Pay Attention

I’ve taught development camp for the Preds for over 20 years. The coach will ask the young guys trying out or already recruited, how many of you have done yoga. Where one hand may have been raised all those years ago, this month almost every hand went up.
I had one session this year to give them something new, something they wouldn’t have learned, because just teaching a class they could do at home seemed a waste of time. I wasn’t hired to be ineffective.
The lesson I offered was how to pay attention. They are young enough to be wired for short attention spans, a result of technology and social media.
They also play a game that moves a puck from one point to another faster than the eye can follow.
I tell them yoga is an unnatural practice we do in order to perform natural with grace.
We resist the innate flow and habit that we want in our artistry to make our actions stronger. We discipline ourselves to go against “easy” and easy will come more naturally when we are in the flow of life’s work.
In a yoga pose we pit muscle against muscle to keep from moving. We resist bone in opposition to bone and wrestle the impulse to do the mundane. A yoga routine is antithetical in a way toward getting anywhere. It’s a way to stop and pay attention.
The work is not in the physical effort so much as in perceiving the way in which you get there, how one breath or move or thought affects something else in you, the shift that one choice or change makes in your body and mind. You want to notice yourself in relationship to your own self.
This will make you more sensitive as a team member. This will enliven your instinct in your fast paced game.
Hilary

06/03/2025

https://bitchinyoga.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/what-can-yoga-teach-feral-america/

What if the restraints outlined in the modern text of yoga known as The Yoga Sutras and described as the first limb or preamble of yoga philosophy were the starting point of our Constitutional Amen…

03/22/2025

https://bitchinyoga.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/neglect-fostered-the-maga-backlash-of-martial-law/

What about us has long been a national grievance. Now an outcry that advanced this administration’s America First policy is evidenced as we turn away from world leadership to self preservation. Whi…

08/01/2024

White women got Trump elected. You’d think they wouldn’t like a guy who so loudly and proudly shows contempt for women. But women also have contempt for women. When Hillary Clinton was running agai…

07/05/2024

https://bitchinyoga.wordpress.com/2024/07/04/irony-and-independence-day-2024/

Abort the fireworks Freedom’s ring is the sound of an unleashed safety, the blast of bullets, a mother’s wailing, bodies dropping. The freedom to kill, to enslave women, to squelch public education…

02/02/2022

Did you know that there are about 25 videos of mine on youtube? You can find them by clicking the link on my website to the video page.

Videos Hand to Foot Pose . Yoga for Guitar Players   I’m a grad student at UMASS Amherst. I am writing you to let you know that you have made an impact on me and to encourage you to continue doing the wonderful work you do. I recently saw your video, “Yoga for Guitar Players,” and it has sign...

11/27/2021

http://activeyoga.com/thin-blue-veil/

Thin Blue Veil by Hilary Lindsay | Nov 27, 2021 | nashville yoga, Poetry, Prose, Social Commentary, society, yoga community, Yoga History, yoga teaching |   Star Trek Captain of the Enterprise, William Shatner exited Jeff Besos’ Blue Origin rocket at the age of 90 overwhelmed by the revelation th...

06/13/2021

Coming out of hibernation like those dreaded cicadas. Headed back to the Nashville Predators' training ground to work with the guys. The Preds are the unique in honoring relationship and respect for a yoga teacher with time in the game. Thank you Nashville Predators. You are gentlemen among men when it comes to this woman and I who lack any grain of competitive spirit strangely feel most at home among a team of athletes.

02/04/2021

http://activeyoga.com/sensory-yoga-in-hair-raising-times-namaste/

Sensory Yoga in Hair Raising Times ~ Namaste by Hilary Lindsay | Feb 4, 2021 | anatomy, Asana, Limbs of yoga, Meditation, nashville yoga, Pranayama, Prose, Social Commentary, society, therapeutic yoga, Yoga, yoga class, yoga community, Yoga psychology, yoga teacher, yoga teaching | February 2021. So...

01/20/2021

http://activeyoga.com/light-peeks-through-the-cracks-of-our-broken-home/ Inauguration Day 2021~A yoga teacher's reveal.

Light Peeks Through the Cracks of Our Broken Home by Hilary Lindsay | Jan 20, 2021 | Ethics, Healthy Living, Meditation, nashville yoga, Social Commentary, society, Yoga, yoga community, yoga teacher, yoga teaching | The Inauguration of Joe Biden 2021 Spring air teases the forsythia and bluebirds fo...