3
Sep
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Life Lessons
I’m on an airplane after waking up at 4 AM to practice, pack and get to the airport on time. Just after the airplane takes off I recline my seat, close my eyes and position myself for a nap. Then suddenly I feel the person behind me kick, hit and shake my seat. I open…
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27
Aug
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Reflection
Good morning from Copenhagen. Today my Mom arrives for a visit to Europe for the first time in over a decade. The last time she came over was when Tim and I had been together for a little over two years. Tim and I had the romantic idea that we would spend six months of…
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19
Aug
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Discipline
I used to be a perfectionist. Or rather I used to think I had a true chance at being perfect or getting all the things right all the time. Somehow I had a naive notion that if I just visualized hard enough and trained my vibration to be high enough that I’d never experience any…
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12
Aug
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Applied Mindfulness and Compassion in RAIN
Then there is the pain that comes when you’re faced with devastating loss and drowning in grief. I lost my Dad last year and it is honestly still really raw. I miss him every day. While most people really understood how to be present with me in my grief, there were a few well-intended spiritual…
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6
Aug
2018
Yogi Assignments
Weekly Yogi Assignment: Karuna, Compassion
I’ve been teaching and filming here in Bali, the magical island known for healing, jungles and surfing. Over the last two weeks there have been two massive earthquakes in Indonesia, one registering at 7 magnitude and another one at 6.4. Both earthquakes happened in Lombok and were felt in the neighboring island of Bali and…
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28
Jul
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Satya, Truthfulness
Satya, truthfulness, is the second of the yamas, the moral and ethical guidelines for yogic living. While the basic principles of truth, honesty and candor are easy to agree upon in an abstract sense, the reality is that adhering to a high standard of truthfulness is not easy for anyone. Nearly 100% of human beings…
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22
Jul
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Purpose
There are periods when I feel lost and confused, desperate to know myself. I doubt, question and sometimes want to quit. I know in those moments I am looking for purpose. If someone could just tell me! But the answers are never external. There is no one on this Earth that can stamp out your…
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15
Jul
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Love in Action
Karma is a bitch. God is love. I’ve heard both of these statements recently around the yoga community and I find them hard to reconcile. So, I’m going to try and unpack them both and make sense of what appears to be a logical inconsistency. This discussion is an effort to restore wholeness and elevate…
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8
Jul
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Anger
It’s so easy to tear something or someone down. It’s harder to show up and do the work of accepting fault, taking responsibility and working for a feasible solution. The temptation to simply burn it all to the ground and watch it go up in flames, whether the “it” is yourself, your job, family, community,…
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2
Jul
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Surrender, Pranidhana
Surrender is not often an easy, casual or comfortable experience. In fact while surrender sounds easy it is downright hard. Most of us fight tooth and nail to hold on to trying to control things, people and situations that were never under our control in the first place. Surrender is not a one and done…
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