by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Sep 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
September 3-5, 2023 “God is always showering grace upon us. But to avail ourselves of it and let it benefit us, we need atma-kripa, our own grace. …Divine grace is ever-flowing our way. To receive it, we must first open the closed doors of our heart. Hence, more than...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Sep 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
What follows is an open letter (email) to Yoga Alliance (YA) in regard to their recent change in policy to allow all-online yoga teacher teacher “trainings” permanently. Yoga Alliance is a “registering body” that “oversees” yoga in the world....
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Jun 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
June 20-24 , 2023 What is Grace and why would we need it? Here’s the what, see below for the why. My Webster’s New World College Dictionary has a very long entry on grace. It includes—most importantly for us as spiritual practitioners—these theological definitions: a)...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Mar 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Dec 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Nov 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...