I have had a really hard day of traveling, starting off with a mobile boarding pass crashing, some poor planning on my part, some technology failure, long lines at the airport, missing a flight, working with the general anxiety of the consequences of running around worrying about the potential fees I’d have to pay, wondering [...]
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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 [...] Talk about weird cosmic timing. I made a short video about Santosha a couple days ago, and today in my inbox, I received the latest blog post from Arnold Ilgner, the author of The Rock Warrior’s Way: Mental Training for Climbers about Resistance and Acceptance. I absolutely enjoyed reading what Arnold had to say. He said [...] I have been reading A Year of Living Your Yoga: Daily Practices to Shape Your Life by Judith Lasater since December 2007 (thank you, Amazon Orders History). Every time I read the daily entry, I get a new perspective and insight. Today, February 27, the entry reads: If you want to embrace the light, you must also [...] Last night in class I put my students in a Restorative Yoga pose. I asked that the students let their mind stay in their body. One strategy to do so is to hang on to something you can hear or feel, such as the breath and sensations in the body. It was especially noisy outside the [...] How is the study of the Upanishads relevant to the contemporary study of yoga, and what role might the teachings have in how you teach yoga? These are the questions to an essay for my teacher training, and I keep staring at them and the blank space below. Some very childish part of me wants to [...] I have a Philosophy quiz this weekend for my 500-hour teacher training, so I thought I’d study for it with you guys . Please please please correct any misunderstandings or anything that looks like blatant figment of my imagination. Why are the Upanishads called “secret teachings”? It was literally kept secret until about the sixteenth [...] Coming back from my 10-day Vipassana course, as I do the sittings on my own, I keep hearing Goenkaji saying… “Anicca, anicca, anicca… Changing, changing, changing.” I’ve always loved Avenue Q, and think this song is the perfect embodiment of Impermanence in pop culture. “Each time you smile / It’ll only last a while… Life may be [...] I recently spent 10 days at a Vipassana silent meditation course, and found the teaching discourses full of words I kinda sorta in-a-way know. For example, dhamma sounds an awful lot like dharma, kamma like karma, and is sankara the same as samskara? It turns out these words are in Pali, and they seem familiar because of [...] |
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