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Yoga International, December 2011In this heart-opening sequence, Alanna uses the metaphor of Arjuna’s battle in the Bhagavad Gita to illustrate the strength and stamina we need to cultivate in our lives to fight our everyday battles. In order to embody fearlessness and grace in any situation, we can approach each deed as an act of service and offer our actions up to a higher power. In this article, intention and an intelligently sequenced vinyasa help to align our heart.
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Yoga Journal, September 2011
Alanna explains the undeniable power of music in Yoga Journal’s special music issue. Music is the most visceral way to experience synchronicity in life, as well as in asana, when going through our sun salutations. As a yoga teacher, singer, and songwriter, Alanna uses the yoga of sound to incorporate rhythmic chanting into class as a way to create harmony within the body and outside the body. Music and yoga provide paths to union. In this article, Alanna provides the spiritual science behind the combination.
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Yoga Journal, October 2010
In this excerpt of Myths of the Asanas: The Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition, the reader learns the purpose of these stories – to feel the interconnectedness of all beings through assuming their shapes. In matsyasana (fish pose) the student-teacher relationship is celebrated. In halasana (plow pose), the mind is plowed to make way for clear thinking. In balasana (child’s pose), the body assumes a shape of receptivity and innocence. The book takes the reader through first the physical purpose of the asana, then the story behind it, and then the lesson that story teaches through yoga philosophy.
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Italian Yoga Journal, October 2010
In this review of Myths of the Asanas, the book is featured to connect students and teachers with the stories behind the poses they do in class. The article reveals how this book is necessary in light of yoga’s increasing popularity in the West, trend labeled as “mythology in Manhattan.”
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Yoga Journal, September 2010
This review of Myths of the Asanas show that the stories behind the poses are not just for experienced practitioners. The stories themselves are so intriguing that they draw anyone with the least bit of curiosity in. Alanna and co-author Arjuna van der Kooij bridge the cultural gap by telling and illustrating the stories behind the yoga poses.
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NY Post, December 2009
A skeptic to singing in yoga comes to Alanna’s jam session of a class at Equinox and begins to understand the interconnectedness of sound and movement. Alanna talks about how popular music can be used to enhance a yoga practice by creating familiar vibrations that are true to the students in the room. Her rock ‘n roll playlists and singing are her way of getting students to overcome fears by singing to each other in a common language.
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Yoga Journal, August 2008
Alanna pairs her very own rendition of the Hanuman Chalisa with her own vinyasa sequencing. The poses she lays out, combined with the energy of and meaning behind the music, are intended to lead the practitioner into hanumanasana (splits pose). In this home practice sequence, Alanna takes the practitioner through sun salutations, splits, backbends, forward folds, inversions and shavasana, all to the tune of the story of Hanuman.
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Yoga Journal, March 2008
Alanna is named as one of 21 teachers under the age of 40 shaping yoga’s future. Alongside master teachers of all different styles, she is featured for the creativity she brings into her classes via music and chanting. This takes an extra challenge in Type A New York classes, a challenge Alanna is up for and has succeeded at by drawing out the love and potential of her students with a rigorous Jivamukti practice.
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Yoga Journal, October 2007
Born with a cleft palate and hearing impairment, Alanna was surprised when she first heard Sita Ram being chanted in one of her first yoga classes and experienced sound on a profound level. As a teacher, music has become her specialty. She chants and sings popular music in class, feeling the vibrations in a way that does not take them for granted, honoring music’s importance right alongside the asana’s in her yoga practice.
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