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Savasana: A Celebration of Death
For many years I was afraid of death. There was something about the idea of not existing anymore, that it was possible for this entity known as “myself” to suddenly vanish and be forgotten, as if not...
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Hatha Yoga: The White Bread of Yoga?
photo credit: OiMax You’re at a party. A cool party. It’s peopled with lots of groovy folks. Ones from hip yoga tribes. Somebody sidles up to you and asks, “What kind of yoga do you teach?” “Um,...
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Yoga vs. Stretching: The Research Evidence
photo credit: tokyosucks If you’ve been paying attention to the news recently, you may have noticed a rash of conflicting headlines about yoga, stretching, and healing back pain. “A Study Finally...
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Yoga: a Wrecking Ball or a Panacea?
A reaction to the recent New York Times Article Ever since reading the widely forwarded recent article published in the New York Times, How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body by William J. Broad, I’ve been...
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Welcome to My Cliched Life
or SH*T Middle-Aged Yogis Say. When I first found my way to Facebook, I reveled in the ability to reconnect with long lost friends — suffice it to say that thrill is gone. But a few short years ago in...
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Going for the Guinness World Record… For Yoga?
photo credit: Menage a Moi I’ve decided to undertake a HUGE task: Training for and breaking the Guinness World Record for the Longest Yoga Marathon (Female) which currently stands at 32 hours. If I...
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I can’t breathe in yoga
photo credit: Lord Jim Darth Vader breath, Ujjayi Breath, “Yoga breath…” I got 99 problems and Pranayama is one. I am so confused on how to breathe in yoga sometimes, it is downright distracting...
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Is Your Yoga Changing with You?
photo credit: kevinpoh “What’s the point of all of this?” a new student asked one evening after a class I was subbing. A conversation that had begun with a question about alignment in Ardha...
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Radical Love: the Maha Vidyas of Tantra
photo credit: Panoramas “I am a part of the divine.” I remember listening to my teacher Rod Stryker share this as one of the five qualities of reality as revealed by Shankara, the father of Tantra. It...
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Moving Through Fear: Do It By the Numbers
photo credit: lululemon athletica “I realized why I have so much trouble focusing on my breath,” said a student after Gentle Vinyasa ended. No sweeter words have ever been spoken to a yoga teacher....
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