Oh dearest stars, I have missed you. My family and I have landed safely in our nest in Portland after a month of travel through Southeast Asia. We are trying to be patient as our bodies reconnect with the appropriate time-zone (2am wake-ups are brutal!). We…
Continue reading There’s Beauty in the Breakdown// The Yoga of Travel
A real shift has occurred. (The passive voice at once seems right and wrong. I know that the shifting didn’t occur completely on its own, but it feels just this-side of ego to say “I shifted something.” Maybe the most accurate happy-medium/ middle path would…
Continue reading Process is the Practice// Notes from the Ambrosial Hours
I’m reading David Foster Wallace’s brilliant Infinite Jest right now (although right now means for the past two years on Thursday, but if you’ve immersed yourself in this book, you’ll know that it takes awhile). On every page there are so many words and concepts…
Continue reading Jnana// Embodied Knowing
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
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
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
hi loves, I’m here. Quietly turning myself upside down several times a day. And there have been revelations. A few for now, but much more later. Sirsasana I // headstand Practicing sirsa every day has made me much stronger. My core and shoulders inch their…
Continue reading Inversion Updates
In class this week, we practiced several inversions: sarvangasana-shoulder stand, sirsasana-headstand (with this lovely, supported version I learned from Patricia Sullivan), and pincha mayurasana- feathered peacock. After our practice, a student asked what the benefits of inversions are. This is interesting territory. A few years ago,…
Continue reading Inquiry-based Practice// Inversions
You know how things start simply, then get complicated, then are reduced down to their essential state again? I am always talking about this. It’s true. There is something about the edges– easy times, challenging times– that brings up our patterns, whether in the physical,…
Continue reading It’s Not a Circus// Finding Yoga and Maybe Meaning in Architecturally Complex Postures