Other than your yoga teacher or local police officer, no one in today's world really sincerely says SLOW DOWN. Life is moving at such a fast pace. How does one keep up? Personally, just yesterday it seemed like May and now we're more than halfway through July/summer. People barely say please, thank you or even hold the door as you walk-in behind them entering Starbucks. Technology was once touted back in the 90's as the way to make life simpler. Unfortunately, I think it's made life more … [Read more...]
How I Love Teaching Office Yoga
Last week I was grateful to teach a series of office yoga sessions for a huge global real estate company with several DC locations as part of their employee health & wellness program. After spending three days in a row in Bethesda (Tues), Washington, DC (Wed) and Tysons Corner (Thurs) teaching the benefits of yogic breathing and movement (yoga asana) in conference rooms, I realized a few things: Yoga is accessible to everyone, anywhere, anytime. In these office yoga sessions I actually … [Read more...]
Karma Yarma Smarma
No, the title of this post is not Sanskrit for something particular or grand. It's simply me being frustrated with myself for not fully understanding karma. I realized today (after pondering this topic the entire month of September & not posting a single thought about it) that maybe that's the point of karma. As with many of the yoga sutras & other yoga philosophy, they're often easier to read about and get vs. live. Further try to apply them in full-blown action and whoa! life wakes … [Read more...]
Yoga’s Little Secret: Pranayama
"...the movements of inhalation and exhalation should be controlled. This is pranayama." sutra 2.49 "Or that calm is retained by the controlled exhalation or retention of the breath." sutra 1.34 Pranayama is yoga's little secret. Outside of the yoga world, no one talks about fully dedicating attention to your breath unless you're hyperventilating or experience some other health issue like pneumonia or asthma. Even then, in my limited experience, the medical world rarely knows what the … [Read more...]
Are You a REAL Yoga Teacher?
As part of the 2012 Arts Festival Day at an elementary school in Alexandria, VA, my yoga teacher-friend Brittanie DeChino and I volunteered to do a few yoga demonstrations to third, fourth and fifth-graders. We taught them sound breathing (a breathing technique we learned from our teacher Sri Dharma Mittra), sun salutations, balancing poses, partner yoga and a few other fun things. It was a nice change from my daily office yoga gigs. At the end of each 20-minute presentation, we opened it up … [Read more...]
OM, OM, OM (sutra 1.27 & 1.28)
Yesterday morning after my 20 minute pranayama & meditation practice I picked up The Yoga Sutras and thought "I will open them and whatever sutra my finger lands on I will write about that sutra this week." My first attempt I landed on sutra 2.7 (attachment) which I recently wrote about. My second attempt I landed on sutra 1.27: The expression of Ishwara is the mystic sound of OM. (Note OM is God's name as well as form). Two thoughts crossed my mind 1) Oh no, I'm not going to get into … [Read more...]
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