Pranayama changed my life.I’m not kidding. When I began this practice, I was so anxious, I had to take a bath in order to be able to sit still. My nervous system was on overdrive. All the time. I knew I probably should be meditating,…
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This is a 60-minute hatha class focusing on the shoulders, lower back and core. We move toward a therapeutic head-stand. Thank you for being here. Beloved you, One of the hardest lessons for me to learn/ know in my bones: just because I can do…
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(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…
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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
This summer in my real-time/ in-person classes, we have been discussing the Eight Limbs of Yoga as described by the Yoga Sutras. If you are familiar with my classes, you may already know that we tend to focus on a philosophical theme for a period…
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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
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I had such a rich, diverse crew of teachers at Ojai Yoga Crib. From the esoteric to the completely practical. I must admit that I studied the Crib schedule OBSESSIVELY to craft my dream itinerary, and it worked out even better than I could have…
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Oona is going through some growing pains right now. She is learning new skills, and this precipice of new-ness has her feeling ill-at-ease: wanting physical contact with me during her waking hours, being less careful and more day-dreamy, waking at night full of tears, the…
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I am unbelievably grateful for my daughter. Simply being a mother has stretched me in ways I never knew existed, has tired me in places I scarcely knew I had, but above all has illuminated a way of being, a way of loving that has…
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