April 29, 2015
A great post about the difference between yoga (as a broad discipline) and asana (as one of its components). “Are you always doing yoga in an […]
November 3, 2014
I recently received a coffee cup as a gift with the message, “Yoga is 99% Practice and 1% Theory” printed on the side. I’ve been thinking […]
October 7, 2014
This may sound very “new-age”, another yoga-ism, but does this really have any real application when it comes to getting through a class? The “mind-body connection” […]
September 22, 2014
There’s a big difference between practicing yoga and doing yoga. From my perspective here is how I would describe the two.* Doing yoga is fun. It’s […]
September 3, 2014
With the passing of Mr. Iyengar last week I have been thinking about how I responded to his death and some of the implications of having a […]
August 19, 2014
I have often heard people describing the ultimate pursuit of the yoga practice as true freedom/liberation. Often enough, as I have seen in my own life, […]
August 10, 2014
A Zen story: “Once a group of monks were practicing their morning meditation when the sound of construction that was taking place outside the meditation hall […]
July 27, 2014
There is an increasing trend of new activities being branded with the word “yoga”. This is usually included as part of a more marketable name (kite-flying […]
July 14, 2014
In his lecture series “The Science of Enlightenment“, Shinzen Young discusses the possible implications of not being able to sit with discomfort. In a nutshell the […]
July 1, 2014
I recently read a psychology journal article about schizophrenia* and some of the interesting observations of the psychologists that conducted this particular study involved the disembodied voices that […]