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Saturday Jul 18, 2015
Saturday Jul 18, 2015
Understanding the nature of conflict, and the nature of our response to conflict or our perceived enemies (external or internal) is key to learning to stop the war. Watching our response to obstacles or hinderances during practice can give us insight as to how we are waging war with our inner demons.
Music by Kevin Nathaniel:
http://www.mbirasanctuary.com/
Monday Jun 22, 2015
Monday Jun 22, 2015
We are not the solidly material selves we imagine ourselves to be. Our bodies are energy and space, on a quantum level. We imagine that we are solid bodies, resting on other solid bodies. This is an illusion.
What if we identified with the space and energy that comprise our bodies rather than the 'solid' matter?
Friday May 15, 2015
Friday May 15, 2015
We spend much of our lives searching for meaning, when it is in fact up to each of us to create meaning in our lives. Death awareness can help to re-prioritize so that we can focus our precious energy on those things that give our lives the most meaning.
The practice is a hamstring/hanumanasana focused practice. It could be helpful to have a belt and a coin or sticky dot to follow along with the alignment activity in surya namaskar.
Tuesday Apr 21, 2015
Tuesday Apr 21, 2015
Memory and Forgetting as part of practice, and part of yoga. Memory serves a key role in practice, but we also get caught up in memories as a definition of our individual personality, which can have limiting effects. We have to remember to forget what we think we know sometimes in order to advance our practice.
Saturday Mar 07, 2015
Saturday Mar 07, 2015
Spiritual practice can provide us with the means to overcome our tendencies and habits, unless it becomes another cloak for those very same tendencies. We are challenged to stay alert to the ways in which spiritual practice might provide a convenient justification to avoid our difficult experiences and feelings.
Music by Matt Wiviott: liveyogamusic.com
Monday Mar 02, 2015
Monday Mar 02, 2015
The mother and her tongue.
Recorded at Bliss Yoga Studio on a recent teaching trip to Grand Cayman Island.
Saturday Jan 17, 2015
Saturday Jan 17, 2015
Yoga is now. Our mental excursions to the future and the past are a distraction from the experience of yoga which is only the present moment.
Monday Dec 15, 2014
Monday Dec 15, 2014
Yogis use mantra and music to connect more deeply with our true self and with the nature of the universe.
Music by Kevin Nathaniel:
http://mbirasanctuary.com/
Saturday Nov 08, 2014
Saturday Nov 08, 2014
featuring original music by Stephanie Carlin
http://stephaniecarlin.com/
Friday Oct 17, 2014
Friday Oct 17, 2014
Intelligence means everything connects -- alignment of body, breath, intention, speech, and action. Misalignment creates tension in the body or in the mind. When all component of the yoga practice are working together, harmony, serenity, peace of mind, and joy arise.