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Remember to Rest

As we roll toward another week of safe-at-home, I know that I have rounded a corner and am feeling some exhaustion both mentally and physically. We have put in a…

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The Medicine of Yoga

Yoga has many aspects, and some of you might have heard of the medicinal aspect of Ayurveda (ayur=life and veda=knowledge). Patanjali, who is known for the writing of The Yoga…

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In the Space Between

So, it is a later post today as I have finally had a day where I was a little stuck. It hit me that this could go on for a…

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Devotion and Dedication

Today is a celebratory day for many Hindus. It is the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, the birth of Lord Hanuman, the monkey god. As many of you know, I am…

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An Imagined Letter from COVID-19 to Humans

Thank you to one of our students who shared this poem by Kirstin Flynz with us this week. It says a lot about many of the things the practice of…

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Dear Yoga Place Community,

A LETTER FROM CHRIS SAUDEK – written last week after embarking on our first week of online yoga… During this last week of on line classes I took class from…

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Needful and Necessary

Reaching the fourth stage of wisdom, technically speaking, we have reached a stage of enlightenment, samadhi. We have realized that the Truth of our Self is separate from and undisturbed…

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Mental Clarity

The third stage of wisdom is control and understanding of the mind. This leads to the realization and experience of our True Self. Drawing our attention away from the external…

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Discard and Detach

The second level of wisdom according to Patanjali is the cessation of suffering. Once we turn our attention and awareness toward our own Self in the first stage, we are…

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Know Thyself

As we look a little deeper into the 27th sutra of the second chapter of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, it is helpful to again state that this journey is…