Live Your Practice
Inspire your practice and your life!
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.
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
Drop Your End of the Rope
We hear a lot about “letting go of your end of the rope” in the context of struggles with other people - but what about the struggles we have within ourselves?
Unexamined Needs
As a spiritual practice, asteya asks us to recognize and grapple with the unexamined and unresolved dynamic between our desire and the feeling of lack within ourselves.
Removing the Veil
Satya a process of reframing and dismantling reactions, broadening perspective, and examining expectations - essentially, learning to see truth or reality for what it is and engaging with the world as it is, as opposed to how we want or expect it to be.
Do No Harm
Ahimsa translates to “nonviolence”. On the surface, the message here seems obvious: don’t be violent! However, the deeper essence of ahimsa is “do no harm”, which is a lot more nuanced in practice.
Resistance to Change
Yoga is transformation - practice acceptance (santosha) in the face of deep-rooted resistance to change.
Chop Wood, Carry Water
Don’t practice with the idea that achieving any particular goal will create ease in your practice or your life - practice to be at peace with the process of living.