Obstacles to Practice: Perfection

Intention is a powerful guiding force. However, sometimes we get our ideas mixed up with our intentions and then the ideas stand in the way of manifesting the very intentions from which they grew.
We intend to practice every day. Then we wisely think about what that means.  We imagine, we set up schedules and guidelines. [...]

WoYoPracMo!

Worldwide Yoga Practice Month! It’s on, Baby!
January is WoYoPracMo. You can be a part of it just by practicing every day in January. Join your energy, practice, intention and effort with others all over the world in celebration of emodiment, enjoyment, enlightenment: Yoga!
Visit the website , join the community and raise your heart in urdva [...]

“everyday 20 minutes yoga is good?”

Yes! This question comes up almost every day in the searches that lead here. And that’s the whole reason for this blog: to say, “Yes, yes, yes! Yoga Every Day!”
And 20 minutes is brilliant. Maybe you pick three poses to work on today, or this week. Or five. It doesn’t matter. Make sure you have [...]

Restore by Release

Take ten minutes tonight and try one or two of these poses. All are restorative, meaning you support yourself in a position facilitating physical release and you surrender to the pose over time, usually about five minutes. Prepare your surroundings with candles, music, scent. Use a folded hand towel for an eye pillow. Focus on [...]

Gossip, Gurus & Growth

“If your path is through the guru,

then you see each daily life experience as part of a dialogue in which the guru keeps facing you with experience after experience,

each one designed for your awakening.”

So begins today’s daily wisdom quote from the venerable Ram Dass. Now, I’m not on the guru path per se. But when [...]

Clarity

Like clouds moving in water,
problems make me forget
I am clear.
                               epigraph from Mark Nepo’s book

Giving

Holidays… It’s so easy to forget that the very name is an elision of “Holy Days.” And they are Holy: the short days, the predominance of grey skies in many places, the extra layers of clothes so many climates invite us to don all encourage an extra measure of introspection, even in this era of [...]