Yoga for Immunity
Yoga for Immunity We recommend you take your “flu shot” everyday with yoga practice! Here in the winter months there is no better time to strengthen your immunity than through movement and breath work. Practicing yoga postures serves to increase the circulation of lymph through your lungs, connective tissues, organs …
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The Fruit of the Practice
In the wisdom traditions of yoga and meditation, the experience of yoga samadhi is likened to the moment when fruit drops off the vine. Like the cultivation of a plum or a peach, fruition happens in time, spontaneously, “of its own accord.” After years maturing the essential ingredients of yoga—insight, …
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Empowering Women’s Wellness: A Holistic Immersion with Surya Little and Dr. Margo Bachman
As we journey through life, women especially navigate through multiple stages as we age. Between the teenage years and hormones, to learning and embracing our menstrual cycle, to the transforming phase of menopause, each chapter holds challenges and opportunities to grow and expand in ourselves. Recognizing that we need supportive …
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All is Accomplished
One of the oldest teachings in yoga proclaims that the world is complete just as it is. You may be familiar with the well known verse to purnam, “the entire,” that begins the Isha Upanishad. The notion that nothing is ever left out, that nothing is missing, has always baffled me. How …
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How to Support Your Home Yoga Practice with Prajna Yoga’s Online Monthly Series
Maintaining a home yoga practice requires motivation, dedicated physical space, consistency, and focus. Yoga students also need regular guidance from experienced teachers. Through life’s ups and downs, geographical moves, and the challenges of being a householder/human in turbulent times, creating and keeping a personal yoga practice at home is no …
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Full of Wonder
The experience of wonder opens us to realms unimaginable. Wonder holds its own kind of magic as it eludes calculation, upturns reason, and brings us one step closer to God. Wonder ushers in the heart of the child, neither to judge nor to lay blame, but to live by the question, “What …
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No Mud, No Lotus
Lately, it feels like we have been traipsing for miles through the mud with our boots growing heavy and the muddle of the world weighing down our ankles. This has been a time of real mud-slinging —there is the mud of politics, the mud of war, the mud of AI …
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The Union of Opposites
This world is full of opposition. Democrats vs Republicans, Arabs vs. Jews, Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice, Ravens vs. Chiefs, Roadrunner vs. Wile E. Coyote. Today, people’s minds and hearts crack and splinter and consequently there is much suffering. But this is nothing new. In fact in the graphic arts of yoga, this split is …
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Slow Dilation Devotion
To be real, being devoted these days is a challenge. I wonder myself how to embody devotion when the world changes so fast, people and circumstances are unpredictable and so many untruths scatter all about. None of us wants to believe in anyone or anything blindly. Worshipping false idols is …
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First Things First
When you get up in the morning, take a pee and go straight to your practice space. The early hour of the day is precious and you deserve to keep it for yourself, in order to care for your soul, and open to the day ahead. But typically, people get …
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