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When yoga isn’t fun anymore
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! It's a common scenario: at some point after consistent yoga practice, a student will make the bewildered comment, "I used to feel so much better after yoga but lately I feel worse."...
Let’s do better than right and wrong
Is there a right way to do Warrior I? One of the things we've been exploring in class on Sunday mornings is how tempting it is to buy into the paradigm of Right and Wrong. Even in Teacher Training, students will ask, after an hour of exploring the many dimensions of a...
Doing it differently: Yoga School
"Because that's the way it's always been done" is a terrible reason to keep doing something the same way. As is, "but that's how everyone else does it." For about a month now, I've had this persistent nudge to change the format of the current "Teacher Training." Yes,...
The practice of perplexity
"Part of the spiritual tradition is to unsettle us." That's a line from a recent On Being podcast with secular Buddhist teacher and writer, Stephen Batchelor. The discussion is about what Batchelor calls the immediacy of the mystery. Many traditions have practices of...
It’s Just Yoga
After selling It's All Yoga last year, I realized that if I were to open a studio now (which I'm not and don't have plans to ever:), I would name it It's Just Yoga. Not that the practice isn't a serious endeavor. Not that our practice doesn't sometimes feel like life...
memories
Like many people, at the end of every year I do a general review of how things have gone the past 12 months and some dreaming and scheming for the coming seasons. This has been especially helpful in business -- assessing what programs and events were well received,...
two things i got wrong
No sure thing I’ve always appreciated the saying you don’t know what you don’t know, but never more than this. I was preparing for the Yoga Philosophy series, and I thought I’d double check the pronunciation of Saucha, our concept of the week, which means purity,...
i know you’re there…
…even though I can’t see you. It was one of the high-intensity full moons this summer and I really wanted to see it. I’d been watching it’s waning and tracking the phases on my Moon Calendar app. This full moon promised revolution, breaking free to new...