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

Online Reading

“There’s nothing dorkier than happy baby pose. It’s an open invitation for a fart fest, or…child birth.” ~ Neal Pollack

Here’s a bunch of stuff that’s flowed through my RSS feed. I found them interesting and applicable.

The Eight Dazzling Truths of Yoga Schmoga. ~ Michelle Fajkus Monkey Business ~ Kristin Shepherd The Power [...]

Nudity

“Life is change. Learn to surf.” ~ Swami Satchidananda

It’s hard to avoid reading or having an about the Yoga Journal nude ads controversy so here’s my two cents. I don’t have a problem with them. Is that because I’m a guy and I like looking at naked women? Maybe a little bit. I [...]

Home Practice or Studio?

From Home Practice or Studio? by Kristin Shephered in Yoga Journal’s Yoga Blog:

This morning, I talked with my lovely man about all of your comments on home practice vs. yoga classes.

We love both, but he feels pretty strongly about his class last night. He’s been working like a Tasmanian Devil this week [...]

Hip Opener Video

I think lack of openness in my hips is holding me back from being able to do some wonderful poses and arm balances. I saw the article in Yoga Journal and my yoga teacher has been incorpating many of the pose in some of her classes. This is a sequence that I need to [...]

Arm Balances

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

17 Feb Hot Yoga

Good hot yoga class this evening. Why can’t I squat from a standing Half-Lotus? What’s up with that? I really don’t feel I’m progressing as much as I feel I should. It seems I made more progress going once a week with basic classes than I am four times a week with intermediate classes. [...]

Tired & Wired

For when the body is tired and the mind is wired. The first step is to relax the body with a short series of restorative postures that combines forward folds to calm the nervous system and simple twists to revitalize the body and move stagnant blood.

Savasana (Corpse Pose). Begin by feeling the support [...]

Lolasana

For Beginners: Lolasana By Peter Sterios, Yoga Journal Basics

Courage has many faces. The most visible face of courage, and the one that we tend to value most, is the kind found in front-page headlines or on the big screen. Heroes have it, warriors have it, survivors have it. It is a quality we [...]

Waiting for March Yoga Journal

I saw the March issue of Yoga Journal at the BX and browsed through it. I should be getting mine in the mail any day now. This month’s ToeSox ad was good. In the photos by Jasper Johan, Kathryn Budig shows such beauty and grace when she does an assana. She definitely presents a [...]

Right Yoga for Me?

I took a quiz on Yoga Journal’s site and the results tell me that Kundalini Yoga is best suited for my personality and body type. Kundalini? I’ll keep that in mind. Right now I’m enjoynig Vinyasa Flow. I’m looking forward to the Power Yoga with Brian Kest in a couple of weeks. I’ve got [...]