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Finding the “Optimal” Place in the Pose (Part 1: The Breath)

Originally Posted Sept. 25, 2013 Updated February 19-28, 2023 The “Theme of the Year, or however long it takes,” as I called it back in 2013, has come back in classes.  This theme—it’s a project or process, really—is “Finding the ‘Optimal’ Place in the Pose.”  Stating...

Lazy?

12/1-18/2022 (Note: You might be wondering at the title combined with the more than two weeks this writing took. Actually, this blog was almost completely written in the first four days, and yes, did include a moment of looking at some resistance to writing more and...

I Hope the Divine Mother…

November 13, 2022 (A note added later: I wrote the below after noticing this phenomenon happening in my mind. I was not going to publish it, but events arose that seem to indicate that it might be good to do so, including a quote from Amrit Desai again: “Living in the...
Lazy?

Lazy?

Over years, I found it very helpful to be able to see laziness in myself clearly and to actually claim it as part of the whole picture of me, though it was uncomfortable. It felt like an important part of my healing.

I Hope the Divine Mother…

I Hope the Divine Mother…

November 13, 2022 (A note added later: I wrote the below after noticing this phenomenon happening in my mind. I was not going to publish it, but events arose that seem to indicate that it might be good to do so, including a quote from Amrit Desai again: “Living in...

Acceptance and Love

Acceptance and Love

September 18-November 7, 2022 “Acceptance of reality is what we mean by the word love. Love is just accepting reality.” -Amrit Desai, quoted in Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope, p. 101 The teachings in classes a couple months ago included (again)...

Some Sacred Concepts

Some Sacred Concepts

September 11 (an interesting start date this particular blog)-16, 2022 “Reality is more sacred to me than my most sacred concept.” -Amrit Desai It would be nice if we could all say what Amrit Desai said and mean it. We would have a much better human condition on the...

Everything Is Already OK?

Everything Is Already OK?

August 3-17, 2022 “Everything is OK, things are already alright. Nothing to change. Nothing to improve. Just relax.” -from Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope On page 92 of that text, Cope, one of my first Yoga teachers (who was initially a...

Namaste?

Namaste?

June 20-27, 2022 Belated Happy International Day of Yoga (Summer Solstice, June 21). It seems appropriate to be working on this particular blog at this time in the calendar. Some of you may have noticed that I stopped saying, “Namaste” at the end of my classes a few...

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