This post is intended as inspiration for you to find rest in your life, particularly as we come towards the end of the year. I found restorative yoga at a time of many shifts in my life. It became, for me, a safe space of allowing and accepting where I was and how things were … Continue reading The Power of Rest: Lessons from Restorative Yoga
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Living With Loss (Part II)
This is the second part of a two-part blog post on Living With Loss. To read the first part, click here. When I lose you, I lose me too Loss changes our world. The world we live in after a loss is no longer the familiar place from which we can draw comfort. It is … Continue reading Living With Loss (Part II)
Living With Loss
Loss shows us some basic truth about who we are: we are tied to others and to place. Those bonds form us ... When I lose you, I lose me too. Grief challenges the very notion that we are separate selves. We do not always succeed at being whole. The faces of others, the touch … Continue reading Living With Loss
The Message of Illness
The part can never be well unless the whole is well. —Plato Though many of us may have heard this axiom, we may not see or understand its applicability to our own health. We have become quite accustomed to treating our kidney, our anemia, our vertigo, or any other issue with our various “parts.” In … Continue reading The Message of Illness
On Alignment
In the yoga world, we often talk about alignment—one of the keys to mastering postures and truly feeling the benefits of yoga. There are many views and approaches to how we can best align our bodies in the forms and movements of yoga. There are also many reasons why alignment is so crucial to yoga … Continue reading On Alignment
The Invitation of the Breath
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. — Sri Krishnamacharya The Sanskrit word for breath is prana, which means not only the physical breath but also the life force itself. The physical breath can be a gateway … Continue reading The Invitation of the Breath
Coming Into Embodiment
Yoga is an embodied practice. It sounds obvious when I put it like that, but many of us haven’t taken the time to consider what it truly means to work with the body. The body we are interested in as yogis is not so much the physical body as seen or imagined from the outside, … Continue reading Coming Into Embodiment
Sitting With Your Life
Meditation is often thought of as a practice more suited to people interested in spirituality, who are somewhat detached from worldly life. Many spiritual texts speak of it being essential to realizing God or our true nature. It brings to mind monks and monasteries, renunciation and seclusion, quiet places and an unmoving body. In all … Continue reading Sitting With Your Life
Take a Deep Breath…
Breathing is one of the central elements of yoga practice. It is also one of the easiest yoga teachings to bring “off the mat” and into daily life. In this final post of the year, I’d like to share some thoughts and practices that might help you weather any end-of-year stresses with more ease. Firstly, … Continue reading Take a Deep Breath…
How, then, should we act?
Your right is to work only, but never to the fruit thereof. Never consider yourself to be bringing about the results of your actions, nor be attached to inaction. (Bhagavad Gita 2.47) This is one of the most famous verses of the Bhagavad Gita and captures the essence of karma yoga, or the path of action. … Continue reading How, then, should we act?
The Wise Body 