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Goals versus Intentions

Recently a friend, who is also a yoga teacher in training and mid-stream in cancer treatment, shared her intentions with me. A few days later she remarked that since the road to hell... 



Why Do Yoga?

Thomas Aquinas said that beauty arrests motion. He meant, I think, that in the presence of something gorgeous or sublime, we stop our nervous natterings, our foot twitchings and restless... 



Zen Story: We Lock the Door

There’s an old Zen story about a little girl who lived in a lovely house, in a comfortable neighbourhood of a smallish city, much like ours. Her home was spacious and allowed for... 



The Kosas; Framing Our Knowledge and Experience

Something about autumn on the coast stimulates us to action of the ant-kind. You remember that fable about the ant and the cricket? Ant busied herself to stash food and prepare her... 



Yoga as a Healing Ritual

On the hottest days of early fall, schedules fallen away, various chores and errands done for the moment, we stay longer on our mats in the very dry heat. What keeps us involved in... 



Yoga Perspective: The Body as a Means of Awakening

For a very long span of time both Eastern and Western thought and spiritual practice have puzzled over the place of the body in spiritual awakening. Is it the “temple of the Spirit”... 



Pranayama: the Yoga of Breath Energy

In the Iyengar tradition of yoga, pranayama - breath regulation - is introduced after asana - pose work. Mr. Iyengar’s reasoning is that yoga asanas steady the mind and prepare the... 



Yoga for Delight

I do yoga for the pleasure of the experience in the body/mind. Enjoyment is generated by the sensations and the challenges that a disciplined practice offers. Does this mean my practice... 



Taking Responsibility for Dreams and Actions

At this time of year I feel the pull of my mammalian-large-land-animal nature to crawl into my cave and cover myself with leaves. I sleep and dream and rock myself on the great waves... 



Yoga Perspective

When I came to yoga, my mother had just died at 64. Through her last illness I was reading, Stephen Levine; Who Dies?, Elizabeth Kubhler Ross; On Death and Dying and the Buddhists of... 



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