Christopher Holmes
Kripalu Faculty
Christopher Holmes is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, a Kundalini Yoga teacher, and a massage therapist licensed in the state of Massachusetts. He has developed expertise in the areas of anatomy and physiology for yoga and bodywork, movement and postural analysis, and the healing of chronic pain patterns.
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Sitting Doesn’t Have to Be the New Smoking: Here’s How to Sit Better
What we’re after is a way to sit that nourishes the body, says Kripalu Yoga teacher Chris Holmes. The focus is on relating to our “sitting self” in a way that sustains and fortifies.
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Deconstructing Warrior I, Kripalu Style
While many styles of yoga practice Warrior I with the back foot entirely on the floor, the Kripalu approach to this posture is a high lunge with the rear heel elevated.
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The Anatomy of Natural Breath
When it comes to respiration, the body can forget what natural is, says Kripalu School of Yoga faculty Christopher Holmes. A closer investigation of how breathing works can help us remember.
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Yoga to Protect Your Knees
According to Christopher Holmes, a teacher trainer for the Kripalu School of Yoga, many knee conditions are caused or exacerbated by both our movement habits and the sedentary lifestyle of our modern age.
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Muscle, Fascia, and Yoga: We Are All Connective
Scientists have only recently begun to unravel the true function of fascia. They're discovering that it is a living organism that not only cocoons muscle, but also communicates with it.
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Human Rhythms, Earth Rhythms: Using the Medicine Wheel to Reflect on Spring and Transitions
Medicine wheels can be actual physical structures, such as stone constructions, or they can be a symbolic concept upon which to meditate and reflect, says Kripalu R&R faculty Christopher Holmes.
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Enter Slowly and Quietly: The Path to Understanding the Unified Body
The physical body is the perfect portal into practice because (as contemporary science is finding out) energy, mind, feeling-sensations, feeling-emotions, and intuition are all linked.
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