Ganesha

"You take it, practice many years, then shanti is coming...no problem"
Sri K.Pattabhi Jois

 

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Ganesha

"Bliss is where I am found."
Shankara

Dragging me down

I think I’ve been devoting too much bandwidth to commenting on every class or practice I do. It’s got to be boring to anyone who might read this blog. It certainly bores me. This is meant to be a chronicle of my journey in yoga but there’s no need to document every little step.

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Bryan Kest Power Yoga

The Bryan Kest Power Yoga Master Class at the Sri Yoga Center was simply awesome. There was a lot of yoga packed into three-plus hours. The large studio upstairs was packed to capacity with nearly every square foot of floor space covered by a yoga mat. I’m guessing the distance between mats was, at [...]

Kermit's Surya Namaskara

On the YogaDork blog I learned that Bert’s (of Sesame Street) favorite asana is Pigeon Pose. This led me to an earlier post revealing that Kermit the Frog is a yogi and a link to Kermit’s Surya Namaskara.

In her blog, Yogic Muse, Brooks Hall explains how, in their own way, frogs are [...]

Power Yoga Prelude

The Bryan Kest Power Yoga class at Sri Yoga Center is tomorrow evening and I’ve been looking forward to it for months. I’ve been signed up for it since December. Tonight I thought it might be a good idea to learn a little more about Bryan Kest and Power Yoga.

Reading theAbout Power Yoga [...]

Yoga Blocks

YogahOMe posted a link on Facebook to an eHow article on how to use a yoga block. It lists six ways to use a block and three of them I hadn’t really considered. I’ve used blocks to help me some poses such as Half-Moon and Triangle and I’ve often sat on a block to [...]

Hot Yoga (02-22)

Tonight’s hot yoga class was very small with only two students and a substitute teacher. Meleah stood in for Jessica this evening. Having a different teacher provides a nice change of pace and a little variety. Of course, there is always a chance to learn something new such as a different variation or modification [...]

Does Asana bring me closer to God?

In response to my Facebook note, Adho Mukha Svanasana, a Christian friend provided a link to Random Thoughts of a Confused Xtian in which Confused Christian posted the following:

Could never quite figure out how maneuvering your body into the crouching cricket position brings you any closer to God.

I’d rather pray and not [...]

Yoga Class (20 Feb)

Technorati Tags: class,core,divinity,Sri Yoga

Twitter: Great class today. Even core work wasn’t too bad. Warrior poses still getting protests. I’m very tired, thirsty and hungry now. Lunch!

It was a pretty good class. The core/abdominal work was challenging but not nearly as much as this past Thursday. My lower quads were still tightening [...]

18 Feb Yoga Class

Twitter: Good yoga class. Some areas resist the natural yogic state a lot more than others. Some of that may be mental blocks I need to let go of.

As usual, core work kicked my ass although it’s my legs that hurt, not my abs. That could be because my core isn’t strong enough [...]

Arm Balances

Kathryn Budig podcast on Yoga Journal: Arm Balances, simple tips to make even the most challenging arm balances seem accessible.