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!
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?
Letting Go
Aparigraha asks us to examine what we’re grasping for and why so we can learn how to source it from within.
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.
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.
Awareness In Action
During asana practice, you apply the yamas and niyamas regularly, whether or not you realize it…
Beyond the Physical
Physical movement (asana) and breathing practices (pranayama) constitute only a portion of the whole practice of yoga. Here, we start a deep-dive into the other 6 limbs of yoga…