HELLO! YAY! 200 Episodes! So excited to be together. I can hardly believe we have been together for 200 episodes. This episode features the second in a three-part series on the foundations of practice, or 3 pillars of practice as described by the Yoga Sutras.…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 200// Foundations of Practice: Svadhyaya
Love-Doves, Hi. So happy to be here together. This episode kicks off a 3-episode series on the 3 pillars of practice as described by the Yoga Sutras. These pillars are referred to as the foundations of practice in chapter 2, sutra 1. Here’s the text…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 199// Foundations of Practice: Tapas
Hi lovers, SO happy to be back together today. We’ll resume our work with desire next week. This week, we’re talking about the 8 limbs of yoga as described by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. If this is interesting to you, please join us for…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 185// The 8 Limbs of Yoga
Sweet beloveds, I am so happy we are here together today. This episode is all about dropping deeper into your own practice. As I mentioned in episode 146 of Samadhi Rush, this is my season for practice (abhyasa, in yoga-talk), and here I talk about…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 150// Taking Your Yoga Practice To The Next Level
(A vritti is a fluctuation of mind. A whirlpool of thought.) While driving to the grocery store on Monday, scanning through radio stations I heard the Dire Straits song “Romeo & Juliet.” I love that song. The first time I heard it, I was…
Continue reading A Vritti // Memory
Let me be clear: I might not be the teacher for you. I won’t tell you what to do. I won’t micro-manage your experience. I won’t push you to “nail” a pose. Because your practice is so much more than a shape. Your practice is your life.…
Continue reading I Am This Way On Purpose// You Are Your Own Medicine, My Teaching Manifesto
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
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
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…
Continue reading Attending Sadness// Practice. Non-attachment. Love.