Still Life: Rhythm without Motion

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Ambient & electronica represent a musical compromise with technology and modernity, one that humbly acknowledges that even with the repetitiveness and surface level contact afforded by the pace of urban working [...]

Yoga changes what you want

“The first step is simple: just make a decision to unload your burdens and start your journey home. Make a decision to reclaim your beautiful self – your body; your clear, calm, and tranquil mind; and the peaceful core of your being.” ~Pandit Rajmani in July/Aug Yoga+
This last year I’ve been re-working the conditions of [...]

Embrace, Empower, Evolve

I asked Hillary to guest blog on the occasion of releasing her first DVD, Yoga Foundations, because I’ve loved taking her podcast class at HillarysYogaPractice.com. Her spirit really shines through and her class themes have integrity and depth.
When I chose to step into the process of making my first yoga DVD earlier this year, [...]

Yoga & Business

Yoga is about big ideas & everyday moments, making the theoretical practical and living out ideals. That’s why a great class has a theme that permeates each pose, each sequence and acts as a guide, a stabilizing influence behind all the fluctuations of mind and breath that a class allows us to observe. Yoga is applied [...]

Organic & American Made

That’s me. All organic & American-made, domestic even.  Last week YogaCowGirl wrote about her commitment to organic husbandry of her land, food & environs.  What she didn’t focus on was the painstaking, time-consuming, heavily documented process required to be certified organic. She’s shared some of her process on her blog & on Twitter. The process [...]

YogaCowGirl Guest Blog: Abhyasa & Vairagya, the Yoga of Tending the Land

Welcome to a new monthly feature, the guest blog.  Craving community , practicing letting go and so continually amazed and inspired by the creative beauty of fellow bloggers and yogis, I’ve invited some of these artists of life to share their work here. I hope you find them as igniting as I do. Stay tuned [...]

Savasana is the hardest of all

Sometimes savasana is the last thing I want to do. I rarely miss asana in the morning, and like I was reading in Iyengar’s Light on Yoga this morning, I find meditation in the union of breath, body & mind. Even if it’s 10 or 20 minutes after walking the dogs & before donning the [...]

The Up Side of Downward Facing Yoga Teacher

I turned the keys to the studio in today. And I remembered how to smile.
Teaching at that particular studio had been such a point of pride and triumph. It was the studio where I found connection in lonely city and the studio where I took my teacher training. Standing in that studio the first night [...]

Itsy Bitsy Yoga, Really Big Connections

 I’m a do-it-yourself gal, and a create it yourself kinda gal, at that. For me, that’s never meant buying the how-to guide or going to endless classes. Maybe that’s why I started a home yoga practice as early as I did and why I still believe that what you do in your own home is the [...]

Powerful Photos, Underpowered Yoga: a review of Ulrica Norberg’s Power Yoga

Power yoga may have made yoga hot, but don’t read Ulrica Norberg’s Power Yoga expecting to warm up to this intense, physically demanding riff on the ancient technology of melding breath and body in the alchemical bond of awareness.
Ulrica Norberg is a Swedish yoga teacher, freelance journalist, scriptwriter and consultant for personal growth. However in this [...]