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June 26, 2018
Entering Motherhood? How Yoga Can Help You Prepare

Prenatal yoga has come to help many women through pregnancy, birth, and being with their newborns. It can help you feel less frightened about motherhood by helping you become aware ...

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June 12, 2018
Vichara: A key tool of self-study in yoga

The systematic practice of raja yoga, the “royal” path, consists of three components: tapas (austerity, or going against the grain of our conditioning), svadyaya (self-study, or self-inquiry to understand the ...

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May 8, 2018
Trauma, the Gunas and the Polyvagal Theory

Trauma field luminaries such as Peter Levine, PhD and Bessel van der Kolk, MD, among others, concur that trauma is in the body, not in the event – or in ...

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April 10, 2018
Why Yoga

Why do you practice yoga? A yogi is a seeker of the truth. Intention sets the tone for what kind of journey you‘ll have along the path of yoga. Align ...

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April 3, 2018
The Tristhana Training Ground: Breath, Gaze and Pose in Ashtanga Yoga

Life feels like it’s been going through a slow-motion upheaval for some months now. Relationships tumbled out of the place I thought they belonged. Teaching opportunities I hadn’t even imagined ...

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March 20, 2018
Suffering, Transformation, & The New Reality

Needless to say, there is suffering. Part of suffering is unavoidable. Small sufferings can wreak havoc momentarily as we attend educational programs, training, relocate, have a child or suffer the ...

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February 6, 2018
Ashtanga Yoga IS Hard—A Beginner’s Guide to How to Practice

There is no easy way to say this but the reality is that Ashtanga Yoga is in fact really hard. The longer you practice the more you forget what a ...

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January 29, 2018
Master These 3 Yoga Sutras

The Yoga Sutras are a collection of aphorisms that teach yoga practitioners all about the 8 limbs of yoga. They are widely regarded as the leading authoritative text about yoga ...

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January 9, 2018
Same Same but Different and Flipidy-Flip

If you have ever traveled to Thailand, I imagine you will invariably have come across the saying ‘same same but different’. Seemingly appropriate for almost any situation the interpretation, intended ...

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January 2, 2018
How Yoga Works: Part II

Life is a mirror that reflects what’s in your heart. You see in others what is really within yourself. If you want to change your world, you have to start ...

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