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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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Therapeutic Somatic Awareness Movements to Heal the Body with Yoga

  Pursuing a journey of healing and education through yoga involves more than just stretching and breathwork – it involves our body, mind, and spirit. Through SATYA (Somatic Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement), learners understand the innovative pathway for those looking to rejuvenate their body and mind. This transformative program …

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Winter Solstice and the Deep Yin

Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and the longest night of the year. It is an opportune time to restore to your very foundation. In the traditions of China and Japan, the solstice is an important day because it is when the chi in our bodies recedes to …

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Drop by Drop

Keep it flowing. Your life, your breath, your longing for a better world. Be like a river flowing downhill to the sea. Know that your body and mind are designed to flow. Fascia flows. Spinal fluid flows. Tears flow. The key is not to let sadness calcify in you, not to …

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Composing Compost

Curating compost is necessary for any spiritual growth. Start by taking all the scraps from your kitchen — leftovers from past relationships, sour fruit, rinds from old projects, crusty traumas, rotten ideals and scraps of dreams unfulfilled — and bury them into your heap. It takes a lifetime to build a fertile compost, rich …

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Small Prayer, Big Heart

This is how to make your heart supple. Start by emptying your pockets, leave your pride at the door, and enter the silent space. Sit. Deflate your eyes. Turn them down, so they loosen their grip on the things of the world. Consecrate your chest in awareness, drenching the caverns …

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Feast Today

Feast today on simple things the chalk-colored sky at dawn, the face of a loved one teleported from far away, the newspaper article about the couple that lived 66 years together and then died days apart. Feast on the memories of your father’s broad shoulders and your grandmother’s wrinkled hands, …

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Being with Not-Knowing

One thing you can count on is that you never know. As we approach the end of the year, it dawns on me that I know even less than when the year started. This turns on its head the adage that one grows “older and wiser” with time. Rather, as my …

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Coming of Age in America

We raised our son in the shelter of our Santa Fe community, his school but a mile from our home. He attended a Waldorf school where the early childhood curriculum focuses on imaginative play and fosters in the child “a sense that the world is good”. In 5th grade they …

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