Practicing the pose(s) I really don’t like

For the first few years of my practice, I was mostly focusing on poses I enjoyed.  Initially I learned yoga from a book since I was VERY poor AND living at the “end of nowhere” on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington- no yoga teachers, just loggers and...
Premature Surrender

Premature Surrender

Premature Surrender May 14, 2015 (updated July 15, 2024) I had a conversation a few weeks ago with one of Bodhi’s, our oldest son’s, friends from taekwondo. His family is fundamentalist Christian and is good friends of our family. We were talking about religion and...

Thoughts on Head/Shoulder Stand…. or not!

Last month I received the following in an email from a long-time student and yoga teacher trainee who assisted my YTT a couple of times and who has since moved away: “Hi Ti, …The person who I would say is the main teacher here (northern California) specializes in...

What’s so great about FEELING?!

If you’ve been to class the last couple of weeks, you know the theme has been feeling i.e. focusing on feeling, partly to move away from thinking so much, partly simply to get more anchored in the present moment instead of being so anchored in our thoughts, beliefs...