Tag Archives: yoga
Making A Move And Taking A Practice With You
Psychologists say there are three major stressors in person’s life: death, divorce and moving. During this intense time of change and anxiety, I’ve learned just how important my practice is. It grounds me. It produces a sense of timelessness, spaciousness and balance while everything around me spins around like a Sufi dancer.
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Notes Of A Scaredy Crow At The End Of 2014 by Kathleen Kraft
So that’s what happened to me recently. Life was humming along both on the mat and off. My teaching and practicing are deeply gratifying on many days, but…
I was… I am. Stuck.
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The Magic Of Watching the Container: Dharana
In practicing dharana, I hold the space for the splendor of dhyana. One can be scrutinized and mulled over. It is singular. The result of this attention is to get to a destination that is diffuse and all encompassing. But, I am not sure how long that will take, what it will feel like or whether it will even happen in this lifetime.
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The Guest Blog: What I Learned From My 1st Cacao Ceremony By Mishel Ixchel
So I did my first cacao ceremony yesterday. Dude- it totally made me sick. Or rather, it showed me how I have slowly been making myself sick. Allow me to explain.
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Caution: Turtle Crossing
When I practice pratyahara I am trying to not remove my senses but stop them from being influenced by people and objects outside my own shell, my own container. It makes me stronger and wiser. It stops me from nipping and peeing on others.
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Matsyasana Pose: Divine Swim
We move through these poses without thinking about their power, but the shapes resonate for each of us differently and it is this “embodied breathing” that makes us strong practitioners as well as present, sentient beings. With the crown of the head down in Matsyasana, your thoughts release and you can give up…
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Home Practice: The Most Important Piece
The key is to take it slowly. It’s taken me 10 years to get to 30 minutes of quiet. Meditation is hard. Several years ago I took a meditation course. Ten weeks long. In our class we also discussed what had happened in our practice the week before. What was easy or difficult, how we felt, what our dreams were like. Perfect for a New Yorker…equal parts intellectual stimulation, stress control and psychotherapy. It was just the right amount of time to build a foundation for an ongoing meditation practice.
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Home Practice: Finding the Ease
Why do people think you have to be flexible to practice yoga?
My hips are so tight! Props are my best friends.
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Home Practice: Starting On The Mat
If I am feeling vigorous, I jump back and forth, I’m still trying to get into a conversation with my body, feel what it wants to do. Am I still tired? Just back to child’s pose. Take it easy, I am not twenty two anymore.
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The Guest Blog: What Would You Do If You Had Just 90 Minutes Left To Live? By Chelsea Parsons
Death struck close to my heart almost 4 years ago, when I lost my Mum to a vicious battle with cancer. Ever since that moment I’ve tried to live my life with the ‘life’s too short, live your dreams mentality’ in her honour and you could easily argue that I’ve done just that…
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