by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Aug 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
August 15-19, 2024 “Just as doing yoga is playing the edge between control and surrender, there is also an interplay between transformation and resistance to change.” -Joel Kramer in Yoga as Self-Transformation, May/June 1980 Yoga Journal (p.2) I feel the need to...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Jun 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Shiva June 23-26, 2024 “The word śiva (Devanagari: शिव, also transliterated as shiva) means auspicious, propitious, gracious, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly.” —Monier-Williams Sanskrit English dictionary “The root words of śiva in folk etymology are śī which...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Mar 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hey y’all, A student and dedicated practitioner sent me this back in the Fall. She said it was OK when I asked if I could publish this as a guest blog. She went through/is going through particularly difficult (and unusual) circumstances, and has learned a lot in...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Dec 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
December 18, 2023 Me (after leading the pose of the past two years for the final time for some people): “Self-evaluation. Did you pass or fail?” A student: “Pass, because I love myself.” (This is also the month for the “I love you, I love you, I love you practice”...
by Loving Kindness Yoga School | Mar 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Originally Posted Sept. 25, 2013 Updated February 19-28, 2023 and October 13, 2025 The “Theme of the Year, or however long it takes,” as I called it back in 2013, has come back in classes. This theme—really an ongoing project or process—is “Finding the ‘Optimal’ Place...