The place where I teach yoga from home is my bedroom. Standing on my mat, I look east, and beyond the Douglas Fir who keeps time for the neighborhood, beyond the array of arborvitae and cedar trees in the mid-ground, beyond Rocky Butte, my eyes…
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This week on the podcast, I answered a question about deciding what organizations and movements to support with your time, money and psychic efforts. It’s a question I am thrilled to receive frequently, and I was so happy to externalize my process a little bit.…
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Are you a white person who is afraid of being called a racist? It wouldn’t surprise me if you were, but I invite you to step into the liberating svadhyaya (self-study) practice of admitting your racism. I am a white woman living the United States.…
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Realism is sexy. It’s a harder sell than optimism, yes. Love & light sounds totally amazing (and it is…, but not on its own…keep reading). For some of us, the temptation to ignore the hard things, the ugly parts, the shadow and spiderwebs is strong.…
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Hello, dear family. We reached the milestone of 200 episodes of this podcast smack in the middle of a series and smack in the middle of what feels like eternal international upheaval. I want to mark both of these vastly different moments in time with…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 202// On Podcasting, Practice and Living the Yoga
Sweet doves, We’ve come to our third and final podcast in this series on the foundations of practice. (You can revisit the first two here & here.) As a reminder, these foundations come to us from 2.1 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: tapah svadhyaya…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Today’s class is 90 minutes of all-levels hatha flow. We explore tapas, or self-discipline. Tapas is one of the foundations of practice, as described by Yoga Sutra 2.1 and one of the Niyamas, or personal observances. I hope you love it. I have been…
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