21
Oct
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Prana Vayu, the Breath
It took me years before I understood just how important the breath is to the depth of yoga practice. There are people who can perform quite exciting asanas but they are unable to breathe deeply. Similarly, there are other students whose asanas may not appear so deep but their breath demonstrates a penetrating inner focus….
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15
Oct
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: The Lesson of the Bug
Last weekend I joined a three day silent meditation retreat. It was just the thing I needed to reset my mind after what has been a difficult year. The fatigue that had felt chronic and unsolvable lifted during my time in silence. So much came up for healing and I feel like I learned and…
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4
Oct
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Mudita, Joy
Do you ever look at someone else’s success and think, why not me? I do. All the time. Maybe you’ve even looked at me and felt something similar. People often describe me as successful and having accomplished a lot. But I see myself as a kind of perpetual underdog who often gets glossed over for…
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1
Oct
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Recovering from Burn Out
You might think that I wake up each day bubbling with energy. And, truthfully, some days I do indeed wake up with a heart full of joy. But there are other days, weeks, and even months where I struggle to find motivation. Sometimes those periods of low-energy are the result of burn-out, and sometimes they…
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24
Sep
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Keep Practicing until You Love your Body
I woke up this morning to a message in my in-box that I receive quite often. It was a student who said that she was only 5 feet tall and asked for a series of yoga poses that would make her grow taller. On any given day I get a message from someone somewhere in…
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17
Sep
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Depth
Myth buster—Yoga is not easy and yoga should not always feel good. I realize that this might not be the best news you’ve heard about yoga or the most positive promotional words about yoga, but I want to keep it real. There is often a discrepancy between the curated imagery of yoga in mainstream advertising…
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10
Sep
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Birthday Beauty
It’s my birthday week and I can tell you, I’m not getting any younger. Maybe wiser, but definitely not younger. Lately I have had people tell me that I’m now too old to wear shorts. I’ve had one younger yogi dismiss me and my teaching as just the ramblings of a random 40-year old woman….
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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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