Too Busy for Yoga? Take Time to Make Time!

September 19, 2014
It’s 7am and your alarm sounds, jolting you from sleep. Before you can blink your eyes open, your thoughts are racing to places far beyond your bedroom. “I’ll get the coffee started,” you tell yourself, “and eat breakfast on the way to work. I’ve got that lunch meeting, then a doctor’s appointment—and I can’t forget to pay the electric bill! I’ll figure out dinner on the

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Too Busy for Yoga? Take Time to Make Time!

September 19, 2014
It’s 7am and your alarm sounds, jolting you from sleep. Before you can blink your eyes open, your thoughts are racing to places far beyond your bedroom. “I’ll get the coffee started,” you tell yourself, “and eat breakfast on the way to work. I’ve got that lunch meeting, then a doctor’s appointment—and I can’t forget to pay the electric bill! I’ll figure out dinner on the

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The 10 Best Things to Do Before Meditation

September 16, 2020
Sitting down to meditate might be one of the most challenging things for you to do. To help you be more successful at meditation we have created a list of the ten essential things to do to prepare for your practice. Practicing this list will also create a pre-meditation ritual that will prime your mind to more easily shift into a state of mental focus and concentration. These tips will help

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  • “In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal–quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is.” ⏤ Pema Chodron
  • “Only in the depth of the still heart can the liberating truth be found. For the heart is the seat of the Divine, the connecting point between the finite and the infinite.” ⏤ Georg Feuerstein
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  • “Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.” ⏤ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Importance of a Daily Yoga Practice

July 26, 2013
My youngest daughter is fond of saying: “If you want to be a runner, you have to run; and if you want to be a weightlifter, you have to lift weights.” A runner, she knows that the only way she is going to improve on her race time is to run. Her no-nonsense attitude toward running serves for me as a reminder of the spirit of yoga. The Sutras (1.14) teach us that to become firmly

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