Fall Nourishing Yoga Sequence
Enjoy this sequence that encourages space for what really matters. Nourish yourself with practice that allows coiling in and uncoiling of the chi to move and expand through the body. Sequence SATYA Unwinding the Spine 1-4 Supta Malasana (happy baby pose) Adho Mukha Svanasana Uttanasana with hands interlaced stretched overhead …
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Autumn Squash Soup
For centuries, animals and people alike have been gathering nature’s bounty each autumn in preparation for the long winter season. At this time of year, harvest rotund vegetables such as squash, pumpkin, beet, and sweet potato. Given that they grow close to or in the earth these foods provide us …
Read MoreTias shares his personal practice space in the latest issue of Yoga Journal
Bring it Home Yoga Journal, October 2015 More than 50 yoga teachers and practitioners shared their personal practice spaces and habits for the new Yoga Journal-presented book Yoga at Home: Inspiration for Creating Your Own Home Practice, by Linda Sparrowe. In October’s issue of Yoga Journal, Tias is part of …
Read MoreTelluride Yoga Fest 2015: Tias & Surya Little
An excerpt from Telluride Inside highlighting Tias & Surya: Prajna Yoga is an holistic approach to practice and study that incorporates anatomy, yoga and Buddhist meditation, Iyengar and Ashtanga principles of structure, alignment, and movement, diet, and the language of yoga, Sanskrit. At their Santa Fe studio, Prajna Yoga, the …
Read MoreYoga and the Art of Relaxing in Fine Lifestyles Santa Fe
“Tias Little opened one of the first yoga studios in Santa Fe back in 1994. He and Surya Little later opened another studio together in 2000, and have been providing spiritually grounded and heart-centered teachings and healing since then. Whether it’s in their own studio or in a studio in …
Read MoreAnantasana
This pose has an other world quality, as its name suggests the god Vishnu, the Sustainer, asleep on the cosmic serpent at the beginning of time. Vishnu is asleep on his raft in the primeval ocean, deep in his own subconscious. The raft is thought to be a couch (thus …
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Yoga, Food and the Urge to Be Light
Anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder that involves the rejection of food, is common in yoga, dance, and athletic communities, especially among women. In the yoga circles in which I travel, I often witness signs of eating disorders, and many women who are deeply committed to a yogic discipline have a …
Read MoreEaster at Christ in the Desert
We spent Easter Sunday in the high sandstone desert, an hour north of Santa Fe. The landscape of Abiquiu, New Mexico is spectacular. It is the country where Georgia O’ Keeffe spent many inspired hours at the canvas. We drove 13 miles up a dirt county road through the Chama …
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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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Perfect Timing
Yoga is all about supporting the body’s inherent biorhythms and a fascinating report recently on NPR supports this. The piece is based on the research of a circadian scientist who studies how changes in our biology are linked to time. A “circadian scientist” strikes me as being a particularly cool job description. …
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