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Sadhana – Practice of Life and Yoga

The term “sadhana” in yoga is an important one to understand. In the west we tend to translate this as “practice”, or even “disciplined practice”, but that just doesn’t seem…

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The Yoga Place Online

I have decided to try to get a blog out daily, even a short one, during this strange time. We want you to know that we are striving to make…

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Ignorance and Ego

For our April 26th Yoga Sutra discussion we will be reading Sutras II.4, II.5, and II.6. This will begin our deep dives into each of the afflictions (klesas) we face…

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LIVE in Yoga

The Yoga Place is now officially online, so I guess you could say we are “live” as of this week. But, as students of yoga, we also are trying to…

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Support and Service through Yoga

Yes, these are crazy times we are living in at the moment. But, I have to say that the Iyengar Yoga Global Community might be the fastest and the strongest…

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Alignment in Yoga

“Alignment” seems to be a hot topic or at least a buzz word in yoga circles these days. For Iyengar Yogis though, it is old news, and for us it…

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The Pose is Not the Point

Yoga is weird. I mean, let’s face it, the physical practice of asana can be odd and disorienting. Most of what we ask of students in a yoga class is…

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OM and The Invocation

Even if you don’t go to a yoga class, odds are at sometime, somewhere you have heard the chanting of “OM”. Also written “AUM”, this mantra is a quintessential part…

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Styles and Studios of Yoga

Yoga is not a style. Yoga is not a studio. Yoga is not a teacher. So how have we come to define yoga so narrowly? When I began yoga it…

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Ethics and Adjustments in Modern Iyengar Yoga

There has been a lot of discussion and community activism around the topic of physical and verbal adjustments in yoga. Since the #MeToo movement began, yoga communities were not exempt…