Class notes// inner worlds
Lingering in pratyahara.
Category: living my yoga
Notes from a Study of Inversions// Deliberate Inquiry
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…
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Class notes// Moving Inward
I’d like to introduce a new weekly post: class notes. Here, I will share my own class notes with all of you. Making a plan for class and then reflecting on it afterwards has been an invaluable tool to me as a teacher over the…
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Calling, Responding// A Song for Balance
Singing is something that just feels good to me. No matter what it is, I am moved by song. In my morning classes, we begin by singing some campy or folky song about the morning, without regard for whether it sounds “good” or any nonsense…
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Inversion Updates
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…
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Inquiry-based Practice// Inversions
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,…
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Attending Sadness// Practice. Non-attachment. Love.
The sadness that descended on me last week when my elderly dog was very ill informed me of just how long it had been (if ever) since I last felt truly sad. She is quite old– nearly fourteen. And I know that the time for…
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Productivity// Losing and Finding Time
Things have shifted. Externally, here. My child & I spend mornings apart now, since she began school last week. I know this is good for her. It is good for her. She shares her light with her own new world. I know this is good…
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It’s Not a Circus// Finding Yoga and Maybe Meaning in Architecturally Complex Postures
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,…
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Triangulating Truth// Practice
Feeling the swing of the pendulum. Much like my career paths, my practice has transitioned over the past sixteen years. I began with a quite vigorous physical practice (Ashtanga) accompanied by a cerebral interest in yogic philosophy. I wanted to *get* it. At the time I…
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