Earth Day Offering
The one source that brings us together, beyond our private preferences and our cultural and political divisions, is the earth we walk on. It is the very source of our living breath, our blood, and the calcium matrix within our bones. This day is a day to celebrate and cherish …
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The Yoga of Relationship
This month Surya and I celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary. Like a yoga practice, a marriage is continuously expanding and contracting, lifting up and weighing down. Being married is something like riding a horse. Sometimes you trot forward and other times stall in place. Living together for many moons, the …
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Yoga Practice at Home: Know Serenity, Grow Serenity
By Courtney Zenner, RYT-200, MFA Candidate As yoga teachers who are lifelong yoga students, constantly evolving our practice, how much are we able to experience true peace and serenity within ourselves? At the heart of this for me is the question of personal practice. Prajna Yoga has helped me …
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The Magic of Yoga
As the days go by, yoga practice gets easier and easier. Not yoga as union of mind and body or a kind of fully realized state of being, but yoga as sorcery or magic. Magical display is one of the oldest definitions of yoga, known as maya or illusion. This …
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Don’t Push the River
The path of practice is a long and arduous journey. And while we are all born, it takes many years to fully incarnate. It begins when we leave the aquatic interior of the uterine cave, impelled to breathe air, stand on two legs, and speak in a foreign tongue. At the start, …
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In the Blood of Christ Mountains
This Easter morning I climb a scraggly rock strewn hill on the outskirts of the city of Holy Faith. I pick my way through prickly pear cactus and sharp volcanic cinders. At the top is a crooked white cross which, at the mercy of the fierce desert wind, has tilted heavily to the side. In the high …
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The Yoga of Caring for an Aging Parent
I spent this week caring for my 88 year old mother. It is astonishing how the end of life resembles the beginning. In the car to the Whole Foods mom asks again and again, “How far away are we?” Like the width of her shoulders, her world has shrunken down to …
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The Spell of the Shell
Convinced that we are separate, as if cast under a spell, we bump around blindly in this life-time, unable to see beyond the end of our noses. The spell is mesmerizing, hypnotic and leaves us in a kind of stupor. The Japanese poet Shuho alluded to the totality of the trance in this verse: “cicada shell/little did I know/it was …
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STAYING TRUE: The Book Backlash
This past week-end at the Academy Awards, we were pulling for the The ABCs of Book Banning to win first prize in the Short Documentary category. As a one time graduate of English Literature (long live the Humanities!) I know reading to be instrumental to opening people’s eyes, hearts and minds to a …
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Exploring the Depths of the Chakras
Step into a realm of mystique and self-discovery as we embark on a transformative journey through the enigmatic world of the chakras. These ancient energy centers, steeped in symbolism and significance, offer a gateway to the subtle realms of our being. Each chakra, with its unique blend of color, geometry, …
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