As the practice takes shape and as things (necessarily?) start to happen, we might wonder what the point of all of this is anyway. Probably this arises over and over. At least it has for me. In those spaces where the technique falls away, and…
Continue reading Tasting the Nectar// The Point of All of This
What I need to tell you right now is… that this space is a collection of my ruminations on my own practice. A snap-shot of this space in time. My teaching is always ever evolving with my practice. I think that if a teacher is…
Continue reading feeling for the edges of the container// i am here for now
I have been sprucing up this site bit by bit, line by line. It started because two of the podcasts I enjoy so much (Tranquility du Jour with Kimberly Wilson and Krista Tippett’s interview of Brene Brown on On Being) included words to the tune…
Continue reading words are words// stories and semantics
Things are simple. Things are complicated. Things are simple again. Yoga is much like a Mobius, I think. It has a way of turning back in on itself over and over again. Sometimes the body itself informs be about life. And sometimes life informs me…
Continue reading Liminal Space// Finding Meaning in Movements
In my in-real-life classes, we have meandered our way through the limbs of yoga as described by Patanjali to arrive at Dhyana/Meditation/Contemplation. Dhyana. We have to come out of something to know we’ve been in it. The realization. The thought. The spark of awareness inevitably…
Continue reading It’s All Good// In and Out of Concentration
This post has been sitting in my queue for over a month now. I began to write it when I was in the throes of vata-imbalance. Vata is one of the Doshas (constitutions) of Ayurveda (the ancient science of health). Vata is associated with dryness,…
Continue reading An Ayurvedic Approach to Fall// Softening Vata
Hi loves, Hope to see you in class this week. Monday: Meditation 5pm Yoga 5:45pm At Shanti Om Tuesday: 7am Yoga At The People’s Yoga SE Wednesday: 6:30am Yoga 8:15am Nada Yoga (subbing for Kavita) Saturday: 10am Yoga At The People’s Yoga SE Happy Thanksgiving,…
Continue reading Class Schedule for the Week of November 25
I’m so excited about this workshop I’m hosting at Shanti Om Yoga in Portland on December 7th. We will begin with an intention-setting chant, followed by a simple, yet profound asana sequence. Following a short break, we will return to collage. The collaging technique is…
Continue reading Workshop Announcement// Revealing Sacred Space
Lingering in pratyahara.
Hi loves, I’ve completed my month-long study of headstand, handstand and legs-up-the-wall. For this study, I practiced each posture every day for thirty days.* The idea behind this inquiry was to increase my personal knowledge of each of these postures over a set period of…
Continue reading Notes from a Study of Inversions// Deliberate Inquiry