Given I’m a full-time yoga teacher, I’m often asked by my yoga students “how often do you practice yoga?” Sure I practice 5-6 days a week, which I know is a privilege. Though it recently occurred to me the frequency/discipline of getting on my yoga mat regularly isn’t the only thing that matters. The variety of learning from different teachers and playing with other yoga styles is what really will challenge and advance me. In addition, the intention I bring to my practice is just as … [Read more...]
Live by Feeling, part II
Yoga is the perfect tool for introducing us to “feeling”. Yoga is not a thinking practice; it’s about feeling what’s going on in your body while you’re on your mat. Yoga is formless –meaning the yogic experience comes from feeling whatever presents itself in the moment. Feelings of ease, joy, peace, tension, stiffness, awkwardness, etc. often appear on the mat. As you move and breathe in your yoga practice (be it asana, meditation or pranayama), your physical body becomes a vehicle to … [Read more...]
Live by Feeling
What do you mean “what are you feeling?” I introduced this question at the beginning, and repeated it at the end, of one of my corporate yoga classes recently. A student approached me afterward wanting an explanation. Suddenly, I realized “feeling” is a foreign concept for many humans given so many of us are “stuck” in our heads and not use to moving and acting from our hearts –our feeling center. The right answer to how you’re feeling has to come from you, no one else. Feelings depend on … [Read more...]
Use Your Senses
Often we forget to take advantage of the ability to fully see, hear, smell, taste and touch. The five senses are truly gifts to be used and appreciated every moment, every day. When you begin to connect with everything on a more sensory level, you’ll receive more out of life’s simple and extraordinary pleasures. You’ll also be fully in the present experience as oppose to looking for what’s next. For instance, during your next in-person conversation with a friend, look at them rather than … [Read more...]
Change. Hope. Inspire.
Dream. Faith. Transform. These are all meaningful words that have been used repeatedly since Obama was elected in November 2008. They are also words that require action in order to be realized. Over the weekend I made a commitment to participate in a “40 Day to Personal Revolution” program. For those familiar with Baron Baptiste, you may know this is one of his programs geared towards self-acceptance, personal growth and transformation. I suspect it will challenge me to create a new way … [Read more...]
What is Yoga?
My very simplified, yet realistic, view of this deep and ancient philosophy is yoga is an experience that each individual has to find for him/herself. Yoga is about learning about oneself, on and off the mat. In order to learn and experience, one must be open to exploring even if it means being a little uncomfortable. To experience the beauty that yoga offers one must be receptive and committed to the learning process. Yoga is a lifelong learning process. Even once you think you’ve found your … [Read more...]
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