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...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Nov 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
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)...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Sep 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Aug 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...