May 2012
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give your jiva atman a little room to breathe
I never imagined identifying beauty would be on the bill of an Ayurveda workshop I attended recently, but ever so casually, the endearing Vasant Lad, yogi and Ayurvedic teacher extraordinnaire, slipped it in there. Very simply, the moment of awareness of beauty is an experience —of yoga, of stilling clarity beyond the individual self. This makes perfect sense to me because, as Lad explained,...
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see like einstein did
I once shared a short film of mine with my parents, and the morning after watching it, my mother remarked that she could see the whole film replaying in her mind, over and over.
“Really?!” I said, “I can only picture a handful of still images from it and it’s my film!”
My father, well, he’s always claimed not to think with images, only verbal concepts, so he...
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a little yoga story for you
I love stories. I love well-crafted stories. I love well-told stories. But really, who doesn’t? The story is a basic, ubiquitous form for organizing information for communication. It helps us comprehend, process, and learn. Stories are a fundamental part of our collective (social) existence.
My yoga story is deeply rooted in the physical body (it may even be that it just is the/my physical...
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you've got a power center, yes you do.
Core. Center. Kanda. Dantien. Pelvic Bowl.
When we move, we are best served by moving from our power source. It has many names, but its location seems to be widely agreed upon, with so many systems landing in the same place through years of observation and exploration of the human body in motion. Our power center (as I like to call it, though I hardly think I came up with this term) is located at...
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find your yoga
I love new journeys—the rush of deciding, the fun of anticipatory planning, and ultimately the scary/exciting sense of free-falling: being all at once aware of where I am and unsure of the destination, giving myself over to a teacher or to the experience (or both, hopefully) that all come with doing or learning something new. And like anything else, bringing yoga into your life can be like...
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have a chat with your body
The body is a phenomenal mechanism in that most of us undergo daily harm (physical, mental, + environmental stresses etc) and it manages to keep going, just as often as not without noticeable indication that it’s suffering any kind of discomfort, allowing us to get on with living rather than feeling everything. On the other hand, we are our bodies as much as our bodies are us, meaning if we...
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