This weekend I’ll be spending 3 days with Tias Little, a yoga teacher I met two years ago at this time of year. I had just started my 200-hour yoga teacher training then, and like the song goes, “oh how the years go by”. Though two years may seem like a really short time to [...]
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Okay, I admit it, the word “sexy” didn’t need to be in the title of this post. I literally spent at least five minutes trying to figure out how to work the words “sexy” or “hot” in with the words “meditation”, to no avail. I suppose that’s why meditation, or Patanjali’s Dhyāna, gets nowhere near the attention [...] As you guys know last week I went down to Portland to see Gary Kraftsow. I didn’t really know what to expect, having had only learned about him through my teacher Kathryn Payne. I carpooled down with Olivia Esuabana, a friend from the 500-hour teacher training, and a totally cool chick. It’s hard to describe Olivia. [...] Today and Sunday I’ll be seeing Jessica Jennings, hailing from Los Angeles, at Seattle Yoga Arts as she applies the principles of Anusara to yoga for pregnancy. I’m not an Anusara teacher, but I understand enough of the vernacular to flail along with the kula. Jessica is a certified Anusara teacher and a doula. [...] Greetings from San Francisco! This week I’m in a 5-day Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Judith Hanson Lasater at Yoga Tree SF in the Castro. Today is the last day of the training, which has gone by too fast, which is always the case for me when I see Judith. (For those of you who’s [...] One thing I started to realize as I got further and further in my yoga studies is the opportunities for me to practice Asana, and even Pranayama, are disproportionate in relation to the opportunities to delve into more esoteric subjects, such as reading the Ancient texts, and writing and pronouncing Sanskrit. (To be fair, not [...] I had always thought that chanting was at best weird, and at worst, creepy. My earliest memory of chanting was visiting my grandmother on my dad’s side when I was five or six years old, and she would sit with a little bowl and wooden mallet saying namo namo namo. I had zero idea what [...] I have to admit one thing first, I always find the term “body worker” to be somewhat amusing, but I guess that’s the industry standard, so there it is. Okay, as some of you know, I have been working with the director of the Basic Cadaver Anatomy course at Bastyr University for the past couple months. [...] Last Thursday night, after I taught my Beginner’s class at Village Green Yoga, I went out to dinner with Jean Massimo, who told me that Ross Rayburn, a Certified Anusara teacher, coming to Seattle Yoga Arts this weekend. This weekend? Like, this weekend this weekend? I asked Jean. Yup. Well, see, there’s a problem, I’m [...] Two years ago, when I decided that I would enroll in a yoga teacher training, I had no idea that I would be learning Sanskrit. Quite frankly, I didn’t even know such a thing existed, that’s how “not with it” I was. And now, I cannot be more glad to have been exposed to this [...] |
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