Yoga as Metaphor

You might have noticed my idea of yoga is very expansive. So expansive that it could encompass nearly every area of life. This is intentional, and in line with my understanding of the Yoga Sutras and the Ashta-anga – or eight limbed path – at the center of the second Book.
I had this impulse though [...]

Listen to your body: do yoga!

Yes, yes, yes! you can do yoga every day!
One of the most frequent searches that lands people on this blog is “how often to do yoga” or “how many times to repeat…” or “can i do yoga every day.”
Now, how you include yoga in your life is the real point of creativity. I know Ashtanga [...]

p.s. updated uncle

So, the storm has settled and the clouds have begun to blow away. No, I don’t “hate my f-ing job”, but I do laugh at reading what some others have written on the topic. And sometimes I need to. And I must admit, it’s a reality check. The things that trouble me are real and [...]

Fall & yoga

So, the actual asana. Haven’t written so much about that lately. I once took a workshop with Richard Freeman (yes, if you’re a regular you’ve heard this before in which he said all of yoga could happen for us in Mountain, or Staff pose. The rest is just to distract, wear out, and [...]

Smile Award :)

Aw, Shucks!
I have been honored by Treehousejukebox :) So now I get to pass it on…. the best part. I am humbled, given the sometimes dark mood of what I share here, that anyone would honor me in this way. Thanks for getting me. Thanks for reading. Thanks for writing your blogs:
mormar
ram dass
rolf gates
zazazu
zencast
(ok, so the [...]

gifts

street yoga: evidently I don’t know how to embed content… so go to Treehousejukebox’s blog and check this out…it’s cooler that way, anyway, you’ll like her blog.

meanwhile, back on the mat….

as I watch this amazing “last lecture” by Randy Pausch, listen to an amazing exposition of the Beatitudes by Neil Douglas Klotz, read reflection on Tantric Heart Sutras, one of the partners in my heart (as opposed to people with whom you simply work), with whom I am texting, who has recently stepped into the paramedic role, [...]

Paramedic’s Prayer to the Yoga Teacher Within

[That's Teacher with a big "T" like the big "L" in Love...]
Please help me remember I am a creator of worlds.
But one of the many creators of worlds, that more important than creators or worlds are the interactions between.
Please help me understand how Divinity is expressed in worlds I can’t even want to understand how [...]

Crying as Pranayama

OK, so it wasn’t the first thing I came upon.
First, I slept ’til noon. (While I endorse indulgence, it’s not so much as it might seem. In fact I figured out – genius! – that I should do so more often, because my working plan has been to try to make myself sleep til noon [...]

Uncle.

You’ve got to be frigging kidding me.
 Two women, two different calls. Both, both apoligized to me. For taking my time, for being a bother, for needing something. Really? This is the way our world works? This is the way my world works? You’ve got to be kidding me.
You’ve got to be kidding. One was raped [...]