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Seated Tadasana

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Seated Tadasana

Props: chair/ piece of sticky mat/ folded blankets

Benefits of  Practice:  Learning how to sit without compression is essential for maintaining the health of your spine, mental alertness, rest and digest.

Inquiry:  Before setting up, take a moment to practice without support.  Pay attention to how you feel in the body, and to how your breath is moving.  What is your overall comfort level?

Once you have set up, and sat for a moment or too, repeat these same queries and observe any differences in body, breath and mind.

 

 

Avoidance and the Modern Yogi(ni)

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“if you have a problem in your body, your body will naturally move away from it in order to avoid pain and discomfort”- Dr. Jason Skolar, chiropractor.


“tapah-svadhyaya-Isvara-pranidhanani kriya-yogah:
In order to practice being whole, an inner fire, constant study, and a devotion to things spiritual are required” – Patanjali Sutra 11.1, translation Kofi Busia


“By practicing yoga with a warrior’s courage and an infant’s vulnerability, we can embrace stiffness and flexibility, likes and loathings, the sunlit and moon-shadowed” – Ronnie Paul, Yoga With An Attitude, Yoga International Magazine Continue reading →

Transition and the Modern Yogi(ni)

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anitya-asuci-duhka-anatmasu-nitya-suci-sukha-atma-khyatih-avidya:  Ignorance is the confusion of the temporary with the permanent, the pure with the impure, anguish with the pleasure of being, and the relative with the absolute – Patanjali: Sutra 11.5, B. Bouanchaud, The Essence of Yoga


“If you are doing anything big and worthwhile in life, you are going to flush up some uncomfortable feelings” – G. Hendricks, K. Ludeman, The Corporate Mystic 


“It takes a brave heart to deeply accept that everything changes” – Judith Lasater, Living Your Yoga Continue reading →

Challenge and the Modern Yogini

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“Aversion is the consequence of displeasure
duhkhanusayi dvesah” -Patanjai- Yoga Sutra 11.8


“Repulsion, or aversion, is based on past experience and the mental permeation that follows it.  Whether conscious or not, it remains sealed in the memory, taking no account of the way the situation has evolved”. – Bernard Bouanchaud, The Essence of Yoga 


“Consistent asana and meditation practice will improve the way your energy flows, and this will change the way you experience yourself – transforming the way you perceive and relate to the world” – Erich Schiffmann, Yoga:  The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness Continue reading →

Relaxation and the Modern Yogi(ni)

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“The antidote to stress is relaxation.  To relax is to rest deeply” –
J. Lasater: Relax and Renew


“Sava in Sanskrit means a corpse, and asana a posture.  Thus savasana is a posture that simulates a dead body, and evokes the experience of remaining in a state as in death and of ending the heart-aches and shocks that the flesh is heir to.  It means relaxation, and therefore recuperation.  it is not simply lying on one’s back with a vacant mind and gazing, nor does it end in snoring.  It is the most difficult of yogic asanas to perfect, but it is also the most refreshing and rewarding” – B.K.S. Iyengar : Light on Pranayama Continue reading →

The 8 steps of YOGA (ashta-anga)

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YOGA:  From the Sanskrit, “yug”, to join or connect, the state of the mind when it is still, a union of body, breath, mind and spirit….

HATHA YOGA:  Consists of 8 limbs of practises which build one upon the other:These 8 (ashta) limbs (anga) are cultivated with practise, progression, patience, surrender…in effortless effort one reaps numerous benefits in all areas of life; thus YOGA is a practical methodology for living a meaningful, happy and healthy life… Continue reading →