Yoga put me contact with the greatest power in the world, the power of choice. Showing up and doing postures each day gives me an arena to practicing choosing how to relate to my body, my mind, my soul, my ambition, my community and my space....
Sometimes yoga isn’t hard, it just takes a little time to figure out. But what’s exciting is, after practicing for a few weeks or months or even years, the fruit of wisdom starts taking root in our souls. We find the true guide within us that...
It was summer. At rush hour. In a sold out class. With forty sweaty strangers, working their minds, bodies and spirits into amazing condition. And when we finished the last posture and keeled over into final savasana, our teacher said something that had a profound impact on...
All of the greatest yogis in history have a capacity for delayed gratification. That’s what makes it possible for them to achieve goals that most students would disregard. They’re willing to spend a whole year trying bend their spine and execute the full expression of one posture. Gheranda's...
Yoga involves falling short, falling out, falling over, falling inward, and pretty much every other kind of falling that you can think of. It’s frustrating and discouraging occasionally embarrassing, especially if you accidentally dropkick your neighbor in the face. But enough about my last class. The important point...
Our instructors not only give us valuable posture corrections, but they also model how to give them correctly. It’s a skill that takes years of practice and hundreds of classes to master. In fact, many new teachers are trained not to give corrections for the first six...