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“Right and Wrong” in Yoga?

The terminology of “right and wrong” comes up more often than I would like in yoga, especially pertaining to Iyengar Yoga. Though it is something we encourage often, students of…

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Savasana – “Corpse Pose”

I have been thinking about this pose a lot this week. It is such an important pose and in many ways we treat it as “just the thing we do”…

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How Do We Know??

How do we know what we don’t know? And, are we willing to open ourselves to the discomfort of changing habits so ingrained they feel like they are permanently part…

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Now Is the Time

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali begin with the first sutra, “now, the teachings of yoga”. Of course being the first sutra, we may simply assume that the use of it…

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Onward Online!

So, it seems we are given the direction to “safe-at-home” for another month. With that, The Yoga Place has decide to continue with the online and live classes until that…

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What is YOUR Practice?

During this time at home, we have all come by necessity to ask ourselves what we have learned what we are learning and what we will learn from this experience.…

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The Concept of Time

After missing garbage day and thinking it was Friday due to having food delivered from a restaurant, I am struck by how weird time has become. And, that is even…

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Breathe…

“The respiratory system is the gateway to purifying the body, mind, and intellect. The key to this is pranayama.” BKS Iyengar in Light on Pranayama pg 17 #10 I was…

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Zoom Yoga Boom!??

I put those question marks there on this title because I know that there are still mixed feelings about teaching yoga online, Zoom itself, and teaching live yoga classes through…

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Awaiting the Lotus

This week and weekend is an important time for two of the world’s major religions – Passover and Easter. Yoga does not have holidays as it is more philosophy than…