19
Jul
2020
General
How to Walk the Line Between the Spiritual Bypass and the Spiritual Path
Spiritual Bypassing is an important term for every yoga student to get familiar with. Understanding this concept is integral to your yoga journey as it can be what’s possibly holding you back from your spiritual growth through yoga. Spiritual Bypassing was originally introduced by John Welwood in the 1980s to describe the process when certain…
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15
Jul
2020
General
Yoga is Hard, but Don’t Let that Stop You
Yoga is hard. But, don’t let that you stop from trying it. People assume that I was naturally good at yoga when I first started. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I was not naturally good at yoga, but I have been practicing for over 20 years. If there is one thing I am…
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15
Jun
2020
General
Kill the Buddha on the Ashtanga Road
A question was posed to me recently—Why Ashtanga? Why any asana? What the benefits? Aren’t there better stretches? Why follow the series at all? I think that’s actually a healthy part of every serious yoga student’s investigation of any method of practice to go down the rabbit hole of soul searching and reflecting on the…
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10
Jun
2020
General
Sitting with Unrest, Acting for Change
The last few days have been intense for everyone, both on and offline. It’s been difficult for everyone everywhere. And yet, underneath the discomfort it really feels like we are on the precipice of a big and monumental change. Maybe this pain is what is needed to be felt by each and every human being…
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1
Jun
2020
General
I Can’t Breathe —Justifiable Anger and Consequential Love
When I watched the graphic, heart-breaking video of George Floyd’s death I was shaken, shocked and left speechless. There was a justifiable rage and anger that shook me. I could not process what I had just seen. It was not a movie. It was not a dramatic reenactment. It was the death of another human…
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21
May
2020
General
Manifesting Magic
Read about manifesting and it can feel like the universe is just out there like a fairy godmother waiting to deliver you all your dreams. Look at your reality and you may wonder whether that magic really exists at all, or if it’s just the latest snake oil. Well, I am here to tell you…
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16
Apr
2020
General
Yoga in the Age of Coronavirus — The Bardo of Becoming
Listen to my new Podcast here Teachings on the bardo from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition are usually understood to refer to the space between incarnations, in between death and birth, where the mind is untethered from its previous associations with body, identity and ego. In this space, the mind goes wild and the emotions run…
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15
Mar
2020
Ashtanga Yoga
Five Tips on Establishing a Home Yoga Practice
I’ve been practicing yoga for over 20 years. The vast majority of that time has been spent in quiet mornings on the mat at home. At first I dropped in on classes with different teachers who set me off in the right direction along the path. I was inspired and started coming to class more…
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1
Mar
2020
Ashtanga Yoga
Addicted to Yoga
Yoga can be addictive. That’s both good and bad. It’s good when yoga takes over your life and replaces old destructive habits with new helpful ones instead. When you crave a deep long yoga session instead of a drink after a stressful day, then yoga has successfully rewired your brain, at least on some level….
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15
Feb
2020
General
The Winding Road of Yoga
I like when things go according to plan. We all do. No one likes when your best plans go haywire, when flights get cancelled, when it rains on a day you planned for the beach or when nothing seems to work. It’s even more frustrating when this happens in your yoga practice. You might not…
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