Tias Featured in Psychology Today Magazine
This is an article by renowned psychiatrist Susan M. Pollak about her experience taking Tias’ class, The Fluid Body, at Majestic Yoga in Boston recently. To view the article, please go to: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-art-now/201406/yoga-and-the-art-listening.
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 MoreThe Third Chakra: Gut Instinct
The belly brain within the third chakra, called the enteric nervous system, has the capacity to process independent of the cranial brain, yet its capacity to self-regulate is not fully understood by experts in the field of gastroenterology. Yet we know that the gut operates at times without direct signaling …
Read MoreUddiyana Bandha
Uddiyana Bandha is often misunderstood as a simple contraction. By perceiving the updraft of the iliopsoas as a simple contraction, practitioners mistakenly tighten their gut. But Uddiyana Bandha involves the length (and width) of the entire iliolumbar region. This became clear to me in my study of Iyengar Yoga. Some …
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Spring Cooking
Spring is all about rebirth, lightness and growth, but we need to make a sensible transition by incorporating a balance between winter and spring. These two recipes blend the energy of the seasons and allow us to remain centered even as we move with grace toward the warmer months ahead. …
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 …
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Peace, Love and Yoga
Tias is quoted in this article about the yoga scene in Santa Fe, NM, in the Santa Fe Reporter on March 12, 2014. Read the article >
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