I do a lot of thinking about ecstasy. I suppose that’s because it was a singular experience of it during a yoga practice — bursting through my pores, practically palpable, and unleashed like a river — that first connected me to a feeling of having come home to my life’s purpose.… Open “Memories of Ecstasy”
In his beautiful and influential book, Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness, Erich Schiffmann instructs yoga practitioners to cultivate joy and ease in the practice.… Open “Cultivate More Joy in the Practice”
Have you ever had a moment when you felt perfectly at peace? when time seemed to stop?… Open “Quelling Thought Waves – Inhabiting the Body”
In Hindu mythology Nataraj is a four-armed, wild-haired dancer who balances atop a dwarf demon named Apasmara while he performs a dance said to destroy humankind’s ignorance.… Open “Natarajasana: The Pose & Its Significance”
We’ve been blessed with an extended, mild and colorful fall replete with shin-high sidewalk piles of crackling gold and burnt sienna.… Open “It’s Sukha… And we need more of it!”
Across yogic lineages breath is central to the practice. We reach and lean, twist, and fold, but without attention to breath, which facilitates access to complete presence, we are merely performing aerobics.… Open “What are yogis talking about when they talk about ‘prana’?”
Yes, we twist and sweat. We grunt and sigh. We fly and fall, flop down and recover. But why oh why?… Open “Why Do Yoga Asana?”