James Brown and yoga -- an unlikely parallel -- but Ashtanga yoga titan David Swenson channeled the Godfather of Soul while teaching backbends in Little Rock. "Just think of him snapping those legs ...

I’ll never forget the first time I saw someone drop back into Wheel Pose (Urdhva Dhanurasana) from standing. I was a student at the time, long before I completed my 200-hour teacher training, and I ...