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

Mike Cohen Kirtan

This evening I attended my first Kirtan. Michael and Melissa at Sri Yoga Center hosted Mike Cohen and Friends. It was a new and different experience for me and I enjoyed it very much. I particularly enjoyed the rhythms, tonality, and vibrations of the music. Myself, I’m not much of a chanter but I’ll [...]

Spoiled Yogi – Reasons to Do Yoga

From The Huffington Post — Yoga Health: 25 Reasons to Do Yoga by Spoiled Yogi

A few of my favorites:

2. If you’re going to procrastinate anyway, you might as well do it with yoga. Yoga is WAY more fun than ironing your pants, cleaning up the kitchen and other afternoon chores. And it’s [...]

Opening up

Recently I was thinking about the apparent lack of progress in my yoga practice despite attending four or five classes a week. I felt that I was less supple, less capable of holding certain poses and experiencing more discomfort in some poses. There also seemed to be a lack of progress in calming my [...]

The Yoga Lunchbox

This morning I came across The Yoga Lunchbox, a yoga web site in New Zealand which has great articles on just about everything yoga. I recommend taking a look at it.

Here are a few articles that I found particularly interesting:

Why adding Pranayama to your yoga practice is so powerful Why it’s important [...]

100 Incredible Yoga Teachers Who Blog

100 Incredible Yoga Teachers Who Blog

Tweeted by Esther Ekhart, Yogatic.

Yoga Sans Clothes

Certified yoga instructor Jeffrey Duval, left, and student Todd Erickson roll up their mats following a nude yoga class in New York. Fans of nude yoga say the nudity aids in deepening their yoga practice. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

High Noon: Yoga Sans Clothes asks, “Isn’t yoga difficult enough without this twist? Is this [...]

Yoga in the Nude

Though I’ve probably only mentioned it in passing here, I’ve discussed nude yoga on my naturist blog in more depth.

Often the initial reaction to the idea of doing asana in the nude is ” Ewww!” They feel that Downward-Facing-Dog or Standing Forward Bend in the nude may be a little too revealing and [...]

Home Practice (04-05-10)

Abi has really been enjoying the kids’ yoga class at Sri Yoga Center. It’s becoming out “night out.”. She’s disappointed that April 8th class has been canceled because Chris is away on spring break but I’m thinking about taking her with me to the Slow Flow Stretch class upstairs. She can follow along and [...]