Live Your Practice
Inspire your practice and your life!
Yoga & Psychology
A recent article in The Washington Post provides food for thought: consider how your own life or behavior are reflected in it and how we use our on-the-mat practice to get comfortable with discomfort!
Anchor Yourself
When we anchor in yoga, the key is to recognize what we’re anchoring to and which parts of our body need to do the anchoring.
Watching Seasons Change
We can practice presence - literally experience now - by being in and observing nature daily.
The Original Detox
“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Okay, but how do we navigate yogic cleanliness within a culture suffused with toxic messages of perfection and purity?
What to Expect: Bodywork Newbies’ FAQs
If anxieties about the process and experience of getting a massage are keeping you from trying it, read on!
Bodywork: Another Way to Live Your Practice
Yoga is more than just asana and movement - it’s a practice of living mindfully with an intention of integrating body, mind, and spirit. In that sense, adding bodywork to your self-care routine is actually…practicing yoga!
Letting Go
Aparigraha asks us to examine what we’re grasping for and why so we can learn how to source it from within.
Cultural Appropriation
A recent article in The Guardian prompts introspection around the issue of the yoga industry and cultural appropriation…
Expansion & Contraction
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.” - Rumi
Harnessing Energy
Brahmacharya is about awakening kundalini energy - life force energy, sexual energy, the balance of masculine and feminine energies, the primal drive to be alive - and harnessing instead of expending it.