In a culture that is obsessed with transformation I worry that living one’s yoga has become synonymous with some sort of necessary life fix. I for one will continue to practice yoga in this New Year, and in subsequent New Years not because yoga teaches us that we need to be fixed, but because it teaches us that we are …
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Mistakes were made
We took risks, we knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint. Robert Frost As I write this a key is laying on the table near me. This key symbolizes a chance for me and the culmination of a great deal of hard work done and yet to be done. When it …
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The Dark Side of Yoga
This post is a response to an article published in the NY Times Magazine, Jan 5,2012, How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body. I’ve been reading an important text about yoga called “Light on Yoga” by B.K.S. Iyengar. This is one of those books that as a teacher of yoga you really feel like you “should” read. It’s called the “Bible” …