I always feel privileged to be a yoga teacher: to watch students, to watch over them, to encourage and guide them. Tonight there was a nice big crowd for Power Yoga. All of my best students, all the good breathers. I led a lot of suns and variations on suns. It was intense. And because … Continue reading Witnessing Stillness
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Why I Teach Yoga
I teach yoga because I can. By this I mean I think that I am able to utilize my gifts of words, and my highly developed people reading and sensitivity skills in this way. I teach yoga because it marries my introverted nature and my extroverted nature. The practice itself is introverted but the delivery … Continue reading Why I Teach Yoga
15 Reasons To Do A 30 Day Yoga Challenge
Every April I do a 30 Yoga Challenge at my studio. I incentivize my students by offering them a month of yoga for $30. But I really don’t think it’s the reduced price that gets them. I think it’s more their own curiosity about whether they can actually DO it. Do they have the stamina … Continue reading 15 Reasons To Do A 30 Day Yoga Challenge
What I Don’t Love About Yoga
I don’t love all the emphasis on postures and doing postures perfectly. I don’t love the obsession with achieving the “aesthetic” goals of yoga: The high arching backbends, the Yoga-Journal-perfect expression of Side Crow. I realize there are also functional goals in yoga, like being able to balance, or getting stronger or more flexible, but … Continue reading What I Don’t Love About Yoga
Becoming Unglued
When people ask me what I do, I don’t always like to say I am a yoga teacher. I never know how “yoga teacher” is going to land for people, or what they picture yoga teachers look like, or what they do. Sometimes I try to describe what I do without saying the word “yoga.” … Continue reading Becoming Unglued
The Mindful Meatloaf
The other day I decided to make a meatloaf. I came across a recipe online and bought a pound of grass fed beef and a lot of expensive spices and exotic ingredients so I could try it. It was a pretty complicated recipe for a meatloaf. But I delayed making the meatloaf because my life … Continue reading The Mindful Meatloaf
Yoga Gives High Return on Investment
Tonight I asked my class what their incentive for coming was. (Because, people, it is freaking freezing out.) So I asked them: why do you come out in the cold, knowing you are going to be beaten, and broken, and boiled alive as the postures slowly ratchet up, and up, and up until you are … Continue reading Yoga Gives High Return on Investment
Everyday Namaste
“What is that word you just said?” The yoga teacher said, “Namaste.” “How do you spell that?” he asked. She spelled it for him. “What does it mean? “It means the light in me sees and recognizes, the light in you.” “That one word means all that?” “Yep,” she said. I would have given the … Continue reading Everyday Namaste
The Unlived Dream
Everyone has an unlived dream inside them. Everyone. I have never met a single person who did not have an unlived dream. Most people spend the majority of their time trying to distract themselves from their unlived dream because they believe that they can't live it, and that thought gives them a lot of pain … Continue reading The Unlived Dream
Day 1 of the Yoga Challenge
This winter I was on pain-killers, and I got addicted to them. I hated taking them but I needed them to deal with the pain after my wrist surgery. I hated that I needed them. One day, I decided: Fuck it. I am not taking these things that make me feel like crap. So I … Continue reading Day 1 of the Yoga Challenge
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