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Inspirational, informative and thought provoking, our blog includes daily practices, yoga techniques, recipes and reflections on current and ancient trends in yoga.
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Teaching Yourself Joy

Joy doesn’t come easy. Especially in these times when people doom scroll and talk about the end of time. How to live joy in a time like this? Is joy a thing that can even be “put into practice”? You can’t expect joy just to happen like Chicken Little falling out …

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The World Through Your Window

For each of us, home affords a small view onto the great wide world. From the vantage point of your back porch, your kitchen window or from the top of your driveway, your view maybe small but immense. When you look out to the open tree, peer into the garden, …

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On the Open Road

This spring we take to the open road traveling the old country of Ireland, ambling across farmland, seaside and urban street. Travel loosens the hardness of self and unravels time. When your day can take off in any direction you feel that you are not living life, but that life …

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Ode to the Mother

Today we honor the mother, the one who gives of herself selflessly to nourish the world. We celebrate your strength and commitment to the long process of ushering a vulnerable being into the world, a helpless being, that is at first but a bundle of need. You are the progenitor of …

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Home is Where the Heart Is

When you practice in your own home, be it the small and humble space of a guest bedroom, office or studio, it becomes a portal to an entire universe. Having a designated space in your home for ritual and contemplation has a long history in India serving to connect domestic life …

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Tremble in the Heart

This is the time of year when the dormant ones awaken, shed their dead skin and crawl back to life. In various traditions of tantra yoga, the very prana in our veins is described as moving via a kind of tremble. It is palpable inside as a subtle vibration, like …

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Spring Awakening

There is no better time to awaken your faith than now. It is not just the fearless crocus breaking through the frigid soil, nor Jesus on the back of the mule riding into the city where death awaits him, nor the decision of our 30 something friends Peter and Ruth …

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The Power of Modern Day Tapas

Amidst news of political, economic and social upheaval lately, it was astonishing to bear witness to the courage of Cory Booker on the Senate floor one week ago. Talk about standing up for what is right! His record shattering ultramarathon oration was not only a protest against ruinous policies but a call …

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There are Two Sides to Every Story

In our physical structure we live in two very different bodies. And the more time you spend on the mat, stretching, twisting and arching back, the more you realize that your left and right sides not only have different tensions– even different shapes– but have different “personalities.” Hatha Yoga charts …

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