How is emotional development connected with Surya Namaskar? I saw this question on Quora.com, and felt inspired to answer. The emotional benefits of any of the yoga forms, including the sun salutation surya namaskar, are that when we have trouble with some of our emotions, there is a tendency to avoid them, and the way we […]
Yoga of Savoring
What times! Our culture and economy seem to be going through large shifts right now, hopefully breaking up with some old toxic patterns. Locally, many people in my various circles are going through their changes as well: moving, business and relationship shifts, studio closures, and the like. These are fairly turbulent times, and chances are […]
Prayer for Agnostics
I heard a song my incredibly talented friend in an Instagram post: my thoughts become my reality my thoughts become my reality my mind is always thinking better give it something good ’cause my thoughts become my reality ~Adey Bell I was not raised to believe in the power of prayer. The neighborhood I grew […]
Freedom and the willingness to feel
With bright, shining eyes, he approached and shared with me his experience from the class. He said that because of his chronic pain, yoga had been really hard for him. Today, he didn’t push himself, and held back from the harder poses. Today, instead of pushing forward to the next more advanced version, he hung back, […]
Embody Gratitude
When the smoke cleared from the California fires, I deeply felt gratitude for clean air – for a few weeks. I felt enormous gratitude for firefighters and their huge sacrifices for a few weeks. Then, back to normal. On Thanksgiving I always reflect on what I’m grateful for, and on gratitude, itself. What are my […]
Your pain is your power
It’s 4am. I just woke up from an intense dream, where I leaving an enormous shopping mall, and when I got back to my parking spot, I found the huge 1980’s station wagon that I had borrowed from a friend, swinging 7 feet in the air, suspended from some kind of massive amateurish steel and […]
Unlearning Patriarchy
It is time for men to step up and unlearn the destructive ways we have been taught. Let’s work together, learn from the marginalized, move forward. This is mostly a “Coming soon” page. Look forward to a wealth of resources and community to help transition us to a healthy world.
Fall – letting go
Fall – The time of letting go – Releasing the leaves it’s been creating since Spring, trees let all that work go, and rest back into their essence. “But I worked hard on that,” said no tree ever. The leaves were there for a reason, two seasons, and can be released now. To me, trees […]
Seeing Clearly When Triggered
Trigger warning: this is all about triggers. It was one of the hardest things I’d tried to teach. To teach a class for a popular teacher is hard enough. The students don’t already know me, and people are rarely totally open to a teacher that is new to them. To make it more challenging, this was […]
Ending Suffering
I attended a beautiful meditation gathering last Friday, and after we sat, they posed a question to the group about what ways pain had been transformative for us. I don’t think they knew that the previous weeks had been one of the most painful periods of my life. Emotionally, I had been grieving Jerry Candelaria […]
