Be Humble
In this day and age true humility is a rare commodity. Around the world today, societies put on a pedestal self-promoting Big Achievers, who are loud and bombastic. There are many leaders in power today who are conceited, over-confident, born of hubris. In the journey of the soul, hubris has …
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The Culture of Craving
In this topsey turvey time when everything seems to be coming to pieces, I often feel shadows of doom and despair creep over me. Some days it is hard to just stand upright in tadasana, so instead I crawl into a little ball in child’s pose. Fires, hurricanes and drought …
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Right Effort
Right Effort is part of the Eightfold Path of the Buddha’s teaching. It suggests not pushing too hard and not going slack. I find that every day and in every situation I have to practice right effort. In every pose, every pranayama breath I must find “right tension”. It really is an art, an internal art and I caution to others in this chapter not to push too hard in their practice.
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How Speed Gets Trapped in the Body
One of my friends made a bumper sticker that read: Dare to Go Slow. In this era of speed people are likely to feel urgency and “rush hour” goes on all day long. This is unfortunate for it is only by slowing down that healing can occur. When I slow down I feel that I can heal my body and heal my relationships. Slowing down enables me to pay attention. When I slow down my breath and slow down my mind I enter into a vast open realm, just outside the pressurized speed trap of the daily grind.
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Always New
Can we live a life open to the new? Around the globe we are confronted by this question, how can we adapt and change, open to a new way of being? Can we break the habit of identity that we have assumed for the last 100 years? Yogis have always sought to rewire the habit body and habit making mind to discover a life that is alive, clear, flowing and full of discovery.â €
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Empty Before You Begin
To empty is to let go. Typically we hold onto so much stuff. We hold onto ideas, belief systems, family members. We hold onto ingrained ideas about ourselves like “I am not good enough and “there is nothing I can do to change.” To empty is to let go of the old—the old paradigm, the old attitude, the old self. By emptying we become more open, more available, more in the here and now.
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Embodiment and Readiness to Change
Today there is much mention of embodiment in movement practices. What really is embodiment? Is it having a good center of gravity, balance and core…
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IGNORE NO LONGER
Ignore No Longer The first and biggest affliction we all suffer from is ignorance. Patanjali 2.3. The further on I go the more I realize how blindI have been. Blindness and ignorance go together. On some level we have all been ignoring. Ignoring the cries of the planet, ignoringthe cries …
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The Father, the Sun, & the Day of Yoga
It seems that there are many wild moments of synchronicity on the planet these days. Both personally and collectively the world is spinning fast and the challenge we face is to meet the moment, to make positive change, to take care of the planet and to strive toward justice for …
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“I Can’t Breathe…”
We all recognize these words from the horror of George Floyd’s killing caught on video May 25th. This is such a travesty for in our line of work,  we build up the breath.  Rather than take away breath, our mission is to enhance the gift of breath, to nurture the …
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