Summerize Your Yoga With Cooling Practices

June 14, 2012
Ah, summer…the days get longer, the sun gets stronger. But we can have too much of a good thing. Summer’s solar qualities (heat, projection, activity) equate to sympathetic nervous system stimulation. Obvious signs of overheating are feeling irritable, distracted and, well, hot. When we feel uncomfortable, we have the luxury of simply flipping on the A/C to adjust the external

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Summer Yoga: Connect To the Element Of Fire!

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Summer is here, and chances are that by now you have turned on the A/C. Even if you don’t have air conditioning at home, your workplace and probably even your yoga studio run the A/C. We pine all winter for the warmth of summer, but as soon as it’s here, we close the windows and crank the A/C up to frigid levels. The summer months, though, are a perfect time to connect to the element of

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Summerize Your Yoga With Cooling Practices

June 14, 2012
Ah, summer…the days get longer, the sun gets stronger. But we can have too much of a good thing. Summer’s solar qualities (heat, projection, activity) equate to sympathetic nervous system stimulation. Obvious signs of overheating are feeling irritable, distracted and, well, hot. When we feel uncomfortable, we have the luxury of simply flipping on the A/C to adjust the external

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  • “Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.” ⏤ Buddha
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Sutra 2.47: Prayatna Saithilya (Finding Effortless & the Infinite)

May 11, 2022
Our focus and effort in asana practice is usually on the body's alignment and engagement in the pose. While it is important to make a good, strong and safe shape with the body, overemphasizing the physical engagement can limit your progression in yoga. In Yoga Sutra 2.47, Patanjali asks us to relax our effort and exertion to allow our attention to merge with the infinite. This allows us to

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