Prajna Yoga is a Studio “To Visit This Lifetime”
Deep bow to zenactivesports.com for including Prajna Yoga in their list of 30 Incredible Yoga Studios to Visit This Lifetime.
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“One Stroke,” a Conversation With Kaz Tanahashi
This weekend I had dinner with Kaz Tanahashi. Kaz is an artist, a peace-maker, a scholar and an Aikido practitioner. We met at the local Japanese restaurant in Santa Fe called Shoko. Kaz is best known for his translations of the great Japanese Zen master, Dogen. He is here in …
Read MoreTias with Richard Freeman at Hanuman Festival
Saturday at the Hanuman Festival, this past week-end in Boulder, I was teaching a class entitled the Subtle Body outside in the tent by the river. A Colorado afternoon lightening storm swept over head 20 minutes into the class and we all had to evacuate the tent. I was stranded …
Read MoreThe Gut and Intuition
In Taoist practices the source for all things is sometimes identified as the Original Dark, and the gut suggests this darkness, the underworld below the mantle of the diaphragm. It is a realm that includes the inscrutable, that which is just beyond one’s grasp. In Chan Buddhism, there is an …
Read MoreBrain Meditation
Begin sitting comfortably and follow a slow breath for 5 minutes. Then bring your awareness to fluid tides within your skull and brain. See if you can gain a sense of the slight expansion and contraction of your cranial bones and membranes. Sense the stretch receptors rhythmically expand and narrow …
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Insight Comes Slowly
Emily Dickinson The truth must dazzle gradually or all the world would be blind. Our process of gaining real insight comes so slowly. There is no way to force it, for that would be like “overexposure” of a photograph. We often wish that the truth would come and that all …
Read MoreTime on the Cape
After a week in Boston it is marvelous to have time on Cape Cod. it is sometimes dreary, yet even the grey feels nourishing. The light on the water, the spring winds on the dunes and the budding oak and maple leaves give much sign of promise. I am getting …
Read MoreTara Rachel Jones inspired by Surya’s Majestic Yoga Studio Spring Cleanse 2014
Tara Rachel Jones 7:33am Apr 9 First of all, as a Yoga teacher, Aspirant, Zen Shiatsu practitioner and longtime student of Chinese Medicine, Macrobiotics and Ayurveda, I am humbled by this wonderful compilation for detoxing written by Surya Little. Embarking on this cleanse, has renewed my commitment to my practice …
Read MoreThe Path Is Made By Walking
The path was created long ago, and we are now following it. The word for path in Sanskrit is marga, so we follow the yoga marga, the way of yoga. The path has been cleared and made smooth and passable by the ancient ones who proceed us. So the instructions, …
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Sometimes High Notes, Sometimes Low Notes
Like in music sometimes there is harmony, sometimes there is dissonance. Our lives should flow like a piece of music and our mind and heart must be ready to embrace high notes and low notes and all the range of experience in between. If we reject the times when things …
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