February 2012
60 posts
7 tags
The Injured Yogi...Learning to Practice What I...
I always get slightly irritated when people talk about being “good” at yoga. I think “That’s not what it’s about! It’s so much bigger than that!”. So the Universe is taking me at my word. Yesterday while teaching my second of three classes, I noticed a pain in my upper thigh and a resistance in forward folds. I had oddly enough just read a Yoga Journal...
“You’ve made plenty of mistakes. Now is when you can
positively apply the...”
– Ralph Marston (via liliezencoach)
6 tags
A Yogic Approach to Lent
So today begins the 40 days of Lent. I wouldn’t define myself as a practicing Christian (though I really dig Jesus’ whole message of LOVE each other) but I wanted to speak for a moment about it. To me, Lent always seemed to be a time where you look at all the “bad” stuff about you and punish yourself for it. Now, I realize that may not be entirely accurate but, to me, the...
8 tags
Take Less Than Two Minutes for This Important... →
Now, I try not to get too political in my blog mostly because I am still working on being more compassionate and less judgmental to people who don’t think like I do. However, with the ever present attack on women’s rights so forward in the news right now, I thought I would make an exception. To me, no matter how you personally feel about sex, contraception, abortion, and so forth,...
8 tags
On Being Blog: Hindus Honor the Destroyer During... →
beingblog:
by Susan Leem, associate producer + Trent Gilliss, senior editor
In preparation for the Maha Shivratri festival, an Indian girl touches up these in-demand statuettes of Lord Shiva at a roadside stall on the outskirts of Amritsar. (photo: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)
Lord Shiva,…
9 tags
Our Shadow Selves
I’d like to take a moment to speak about the current Anusara/John Friend controversy. Before I begin, I am not an Anusara teacher and I’m frankly not super educated on the concepts of that particular school. I am, however, a Kripalu trained teacher and Kripalu went through a similar break in the mid 90’s. I wasn’t in the Kripalu tradition at the time but I have seen some of...
3 tags
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
7 tags
"The greatest gift you can ever give another...
On this day of Love, I’d like to speak a bit about relationships. Not just relationships of the flower and chocolate variety, but, most importantly, our relationship to ourselves. Our relationship to ourselves has such a powerful impact on all our other relationships that, I believe, it is the most important one to nurture. We have this myth of the soulmate who comes along and fits us and...
7 tags
Poses to Help You Sleep!
One of the biggest problems I notice in people’s everyday lives is insomnia. We live in such a crazy, high-paced, high-stimulus world that it can become really difficult to shut down and rest at the end of the day. Here are a few poses that I have found to help calm the energy. Generally, inversions and forward folds (anytime the head is below the heart) are good postures to let the head...
“When you can’t feel inspiration, meet it halfway. Take any sort of deliberate...”
– Jessica Mullen (via katesloan)
Definitely been needing this reminder lately :) To the bookstore I go!
On Being Blog: Desecrated Bodies, Dashed Hopes →
beingblog:
by Arezou Rezvani, guest contributor
Shia mourners splash water onto a tomb during a traditional burial ritual in Bahrain. (phoot: Al Jazeera English)
When a video of U.S. Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban fighters became international headline news last month,…
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via yogagradstudent)
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via jewdini)
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but...
flowyogamexico:
Design by: Gregory Ryan Klein
http://cargocollective.com/gregoryryanklein
7 tags
“Lately, everywhere I turn people seem interested in yoga. “Do you ‘do’ yoga?”...”
– JR (via badgrrrlmeat)
This is awesome and so true!
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...”
– Whitman (via afterampersand)