Archive
- Teachers’ Intensives at Virayoga
- Visioning for 2012
- Finding the Sacred in the Everyday
- Synergies
- Life Becomes Sadhana
- How to vanquish a demon: Devour it
- Fall in Love Again
- The X and Y Axes, and the Bindu Where They Meet
- Inner Poise, Outer Posture
- Release Practice
This series of four weekend intensives is designed for teachers of all styles of yoga to explore the art of teaching in greater depth and refinement. Join me for the first module May 11-13 on the art of refined, empowering verbal cues and hands on adjustments.
If you’ve been in class in the last month, you’ll know that I’ve been in a deep visioning space this fall. Supported by nature’s invitation into the fecund potency of the darkest part of the year, I have emerged with a new paradigm for my teaching in 2012. For next year, I will be creating ...
The new year came in filled with blessings, as I was on pilgrimage in South India with my teacher, Douglas Brooks. It was my first trip to India, and I have to admit that I was at first confused by the temple experience, which was chaotic and rushed, not at all like the experience of ...
I just came back from 10 days in Vancouver Island, surrounded by primary rain forests shrouded in mists, and getting to know the waters and the whales. While there (in Tofino), I went on several tours with the guides from Remote Passages, all of whom shared a deep commitment to the health of this unique ...
I took the red-eye home from out West the other night, and spent the whole day with a persistent stiffness in my neck. No surprise, really, as the way those seats on airplanes are designed (you know what I mean, with the padding behind the head that pushes your head and neck into a stressful ...
For me, this has been a season of challenge and adversity (and I hear that it’s going around), so I was so grateful to receive a Kali myth from Douglas Brooks last weekend that speaks to vanquishing the demons in life.
This past weekend, I got to teach an urban Anusara Yoga Immersion retreat. We began by setting intentions, as we always do, and what I said was that I wanted to fall in love all over again. The thing is, every time I go back into the basics of this practice, I fall in love ...
I just spent two weeks in Peru leading a yoga retreat with Jordan Mallah, and during that time I had the extraordinary experience of being led through a new year’s ritual by the official shaman of Machu Picchu, Kucho. As he was talking about the underlying beliefs of Incan spirituality, I had the very tripped ...
Listen to the full class by using the audio player. In re-reading Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras to prepare for Immersion Part 2, I got to delight again in the myth of the two great sages Patanjali and Vyagarapada in their quest for yoga. This is a long and lovely myth, and the portion of the story ...
It’s fall cleansing time, and I have been guided in an amazing cleanse by Ayurvedic practitioner (and Certified Anusara teacher) Cate Stillman. For me the fall cleanse is about learning to release what I am ready to release, and hence making space for something new to emerge. This is exactly what nature is doing at ...
