In self reflection, I realized that I have developed a few traits over the years, like a certain sense of skepticism and snarkiness, all wrapped in a tongue in cheek live and let live perspective. I’d like to think that I can blame this on the years and years of reading websites like Gawker and [...]
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If you need some yoga bling, give Barefoot Yoga a try. They're a great Seattle local yoga shop with super friendly services, and you can pick up your items in Fremont for no shipping charges.
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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 [...] If you know me in person or have been following my blog, you know I have a thing for Downward Facing Dog. It’s nothing I need to get therapy for (yet), but I *can* talk about the fine details of this pose from sunrise to sunset. So, this week and next, I’ll be teaching a Mini [...] Comrades, lock your doors, hide your children, The Yoga Arms are here, and they will make you cry. Last month YogaSpy wrote about the yoga arms: In Iyengar yoga, teachers emphasize classic yoga arms: straight but not stiff (including wrists and fingers). If tight shoulders prevent you from raising your arms straight and parallel, in line with [...] Dylan Noebels is a fellow teacher at Taj Yoga. Last week, I sat down and interviewed him on how he became a yoga teacher, and his new Immersion series at the Taj, which starts Monday March 1st. You can reach him at dylann @ gmail.com Also check out a short clip of the interview of me [...] As some of you might have read in my previous post or newsletter, I am, to put it lightly, “friggin’ stoked” to be teaching the Intro to Yoga series at Taj Yoga, a studio directed by Theresa Elliott, who’s also the co-director of Pacific Yoga Teacher Training, a Teacher Training program that’s in its 13th [...] This is part 3 of What Your Yoga Teacher Will Tell You, a response to the Smart Money article: 10 Things Your Yoga Teacher Won’t Tell You. Read Part 1 and Part 2. 6. “Your gym is a terrible place to do yoga.” Not surprisingly, gyms have jumped on the yoga bandwagon. Although most gyms try to hire good [...] You’ve probably heard of the Monkey Mind, or the Poodle Brain, that restless mind of ours that goes and goes, even when we sincerely beg it, “Stop, just please, for a minute or two, just stop.” Wherever we are, in a meeting, lying down in Savasana, sitting in meditation, the Monkey Mind is running, dancing, [...] If you’re a regular reader of this blog, or if you’re a student in my class, you may have noticed that I talk a lot about pain. “Are you some sort of masochist?”, you might wonder, “What is the deal?” I can’t offer any good reason for my proclivity towards pain, other than the fact that [...] |
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