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I’m Having a Baby!
Yessss!!!!
Hello friends,
I’m writing today on a pretty personal note just to share that my partner Joe and I are expecting a baby!… Open “I’m Having a Baby!”
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New practice on Sundays.
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Handstand Tips – Answers to the questions you’ve asked
Here’s a post answering some of the questions you’ve asked about handstand.
Handstand Tips
Where do I gaze?
Draw an imaginary line between your pointer fingers and envision at dot right at the middle.… Open “Handstand Tips – Answers to the questions you’ve asked”
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The Kleshas: Obstacles to Freedom
Patanjali taught that there are five obstacles, called the kleshas, on the path toward ultimate freedom. This post takes a look at each obstacle and then offers a few self-study prompts so that you can determine which kleshas are keeping you contained in suffering.… Open “The Kleshas: Obstacles to Freedom”
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Which of the Gunas Is Running Your Life?
In yogic thought the manifest world is comprised of three basic characteristics called the gunas: energy, idleness, and clarity (rajas, tamas, and sattva) which are always in flux.… Open “Which of the Gunas Is Running Your Life?”
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The Emancipation of Being Wrong
Do you know someone who can never be wrong? Maybe you know many people who harbor this common quirk.
Maybe that person is you.… Open “The Emancipation of Being Wrong”
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To Hold Space for the Self
At The Yoga House, Jacquelyn and I are blessed and grateful to host so many wonderful instructors whose highest aim is to hold space.… Open “To Hold Space for the Self”
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Going Vegan: Getting Started
Going vegan was one of the easiest and best changes I have ever made in my life. It’s brought my eating habits in alignment with my values and with my conscience.… Open “Going Vegan: Getting Started”
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The Circle of Sadhana
I posted a class leading to King Pigeon today, and it got me thinking about the significance of closed circuits and circles in the yogic ontology.… Open “The Circle of Sadhana”
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Moving from the Heart
What does it mean to move from the heart?
💫To move from my heart means to move from the place of knowing that lies beneath the desires of my ego and the chatter of my mind.… Open “Moving from the Heart”
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Interview with The Tab: Yoga & Music Festivals
How Yoga Can Help at a Festival?
I was honored to be asked by The Tab
a UK publication, how yoga can help someone survive a music festival.… Open “Interview with The Tab: Yoga & Music Festivals”
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Memories of Ecstasy
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”
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Cultivate More Joy in the Practice
Cultivate More Joy in the Practice
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”
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Quelling Thought Waves – Inhabiting the Body
Quelling Thought Waves: Inhabiting the Body
Have you ever had a moment when you felt perfectly at peace? when time seemed to stop?… Open “Quelling Thought Waves – Inhabiting the Body”
Natarajasana: The Pose & Its Significance
Rhythm Riding with Nataraja
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”
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It’s Sukha… And we need more of it!
It’s Sukha… and we need more of it!
Cultivate ease, joy, lightness & bliss
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!”
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What are yogis talking about when they talk about ‘prana’?
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’?”
Why Do Yoga Asana?
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?”
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