Last Monday I had a conversation with someone who said they HATED Mondays. “I don’t know why but I am exhausted, even though I did nothing”, he complained. I have heard many times from clients that their worst night sleep is Sunday night. For many, it is restless, with the mind taking control and going over every detail for the next day’s schedule. For others, there just hasn’t been enough downtime to really feel like they had a break. Continue reading
The title of this blog is inspired by an iced tea commercial that used to air in summer. Continue reading
Many times after a therapeutic treatment or the final relaxation at the end of a yoga session, my students will say, “I don’t want to leave, it feels so good”. Continue reading
This is a magic potion 🙂 Continue reading
This is a subject that was on my mind for awhile, but more prominently so today. I was crossing the street on a green light, when a car literally whizzed by -turning right, 10 seconds away from knocking me over like a bowling pin. It was obvious that they wanted to make the green light, but at what cost? Continue reading
I know! Usually someone asks “do you DO yoga?” as if it were just another activity. True enough, to most people, the word does connotate some kind of posture, or someone sitting cross-legged, meditating. My friend used this expression the other day, and I just LOVED it! It sounded like, “are you in Love?” Continue reading
The modern yogi(ni) is Linked-in, Facebook, Twitter, Texting, Emails, Facebook connecting to twitter, the blog, Linkedin. Joining groups (you know and don’t know), Liking and Un-liking pages, connections with people you know and their connections who you may not know…Comments from the groups you are connected to and know but not personally, connecting through cell phones and apps and sync-ing with your computer, your laptop, ipad…Sigh. Incredible. We have adapted to technology and it is unbelieveable how much we can connect just by learning what is available (I am still a novice).
The word YOGA is from the verb, yuj, meaning “to yoke, harness”(Feurstein). In the Upanishads, it also meant “spiritual endeavor” (Feurstein) and later, in the Bhagavad Gita – we are talking 3rd or 4th century BCE- it denoted “spiritual discipline” or methods of “self-realization (Feurstein). Check out this beautiful verse from the Gita (Stephen Mitchell): “Strong in the practice of yoga, with a mind that is rooted in me and in nothing else, you will reach the Supreme Person that I am.” We commonly say YOGA means union, connecting…mind+body+spirit, because in this fast-paced world, they don’t always feel in the same place at the same time.
So I ask you, are you linked-in and plugged-in professionally and personally? Or could you benefit from turning off cyberspace connections for a moment and tuning into the one link that unites body and mind=the Breath. Go ahead, try. Breathe in calm, breathe out tension…Feel YOGA’d-in….
I like a word – OPTIONS – I find it a very spacious word, and a very empowering one too. Continue reading
Your are saying to yourself “WHAT?” silence, what’s that – it’s for mystics and meditators not me, no time! Continue reading